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Scroggins, Renee, Bronx African American History Project
Scroggins, Renee, Bronx African American History Project
Oral Histories
Interviewer: Andrew Tiedt
Interviewee: Renee Scroggins
Date of interview: 3 February 2006
Summarized by: Craig Teal, 17 March 2007
Renee Scroggins, member of the punk/funk group, ESG, was born in Bronx, New York in the Moore Projects. Located on Jackson Avenue and 149th Street, the projects started to deteriorate within a couple of years of it being built. Renee calls this time the ‘drug era’ and recalls a lot of bad situations being present because of the poor economic situation of the people that lived there. Renee went to elementary school at PS 35 on Morris Avenue where her …