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Everette Brown, Jacqueline, Mark Naison
Everette Brown, Jacqueline, Mark Naison
Oral Histories
Interviewees: Jacqueline Everette Brown
Interviewers: Mark Naison
Date: August 2020
Summarized by Trystan Edwards
Jacqueline Everette Brown was born in the Bedstuy community of Brooklyn, New York. She fondly recollects her childhood as one of three girls in her family. Her mother and father migrated to New York from Georgia during the great migration in the late thirties. Brown and her family moved back to Georgia in the early 1950’s. It is during this time that she faced more overt racism, evidenced by her having to ride in the back of the bus. Nevertheless, Brown and her family quickly adjusted. …
Jackson, Sheila And Ann Myers, Mark Naison
Jackson, Sheila And Ann Myers, Mark Naison
Oral Histories
Interviewees: Sheila Jackson, Ann Myers
Interviewers: Mark Naison, Saudah Muhammad, April Fowler
Transcriber: Christian Contreras
Bronx African History Project founder Professor Mark Naison discussed with two members of the historically black sorority Alpha Kappa Alpha- Sheila Jackson and Ann Myers. The sorors (members of a sorority) pledged to the Eta Eta Omega Chapter (or Bronx AKAs) in 1978. During the interview, the sorors covered their biographies, the Eta Omega chapter's community projects, and the evolution of their branch and the AKA sorority as a whole.
Biographies:
Sheila Jackson was born in the Harlem Hospital and has one older sister. For …