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Braithwaite, John, Bronx African American History Project
Braithwaite, John, Bronx African American History Project
Oral Histories
Summarized by Concetta Gleason
John Braithwaite moved with his family fromManhattaninto theBronxontoKelly Streetin 1945 when he was two years old. His parents learned of theBronxandKelly Streetfrom their friends. Braithwaite’s parents and many of his neighbors were fromBarbados. The neighborhood and schools were very diverse with Italians, Jews, Spanish and blacks (both from the South and the Caribbean), and that did not change until the Cross-Bronx Expressway divided theBronxin half. The family was associated with St. Margaret’s Protestant Episcopal Church. His family has a great love for the arts; his father was a tailor, but painting was his passion, his older …
Brown, Donald, Bronx African American History Project
Brown, Donald, Bronx African American History Project
Oral Histories
Interviewee: Dr. Donald Brown
Interviewer: Dr. Brian Purnell
Summarized by: Estevan Román
Dr. Donald Brown was born on February 4th, 1948 at Morissania Hospital in the Bronx. His mother Lula Moore is from Athens, Georgia or actually a town just outside Athens named Whitehall. His father was named Robert Brown is from Charleston, South Carolina. His parents were thirteen years apart in age. He mentions that his mother was previously married with three other kids and he would meet them a few years later at his mother’s funeral. His father did not like Charleston because of the racism …
Brown, June, Bronx African American History Project
Brown, June, Bronx African American History Project
Oral Histories
88th Interview
Interviewee: June DeVonish Brown
Interviewer: Mark Naison
Interview took place November 21, 2004
Summarized by Concetta Gleason 2-08-07
June DeVonish Brown’s mother was born in Freetown Village in Antigua and her father as born in Barbados. Brown was born in 1921 in Harlem Hospital. Her father was a jeweler and a superintendent, and her mother was a homemaker. In 1929, Brown and her family moved to the Bronx with her five siblings into a three bedroom apartment. Brown’s father was a Garveyite. Both her parents emphasized the importance of being educated and politics was always discussed at …