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Sogrue, Jim, Bronx African American History Project
Sogrue, Jim, Bronx African American History Project
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Jim Sogrue was an assistant pastor at St. Augustine’s Church in Morrisania, South Bronx from September 1957 until June of 1964. He was ordained in June of 1957, traveled to Puerto Rico to study Spanish and Spanish culture and upon returning was assigned to a Spanish mission in the Archdiocese of New York. Sogrue grew up in an Irish neighborhood on Wadsworth Avenue between 173rd and 174th in Washington Heights. He remembers forty families living in his apartment house and only one was not an Irish family. He did not know any black, Hispanic or Latino kids growing …
Archible, Leroi, Bronx African American History Project
Archible, Leroi, Bronx African American History Project
Oral Histories
Interviewee: Leroi Archible [Interview 1]
Interviewer: Dr. Mark Naison, Jim and Kevin
Transcriber: Gregory Peters
Date: 01/26/2004
Summarized by: Daniel Matthews
Leroi Archible is a Bronx community leader, youth athletics coach, political organizer, and long time Bronx resident. He was born in Memphis and lived in Lola, Kentucky during his high school years. His father emigrated from St. Ann’s in Jamaica in 1928, and his mother was born in Tennessee. He grew up visiting his Jamaican relatives in Morrisania, and he moved to the Bronx after he left the Marine Corps. Archible attended Kentucky State from 1947-1950. He met his …