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Articles 1 - 7 of 7
Full-Text Articles in African American Studies
The Cultural Capital Bronx Residents Possess, Mark Naison
The Cultural Capital Bronx Residents Possess, Mark Naison
Bronx African American History Project (BAAHP)
No abstract provided.
Marietta J. Tanner, Mark Naison
Marietta J. Tanner, Mark Naison
Bronx African American History Project (BAAHP)
Interviewee: Marietta J. Tanner
Interviewers: Mark Naison, Donna Joseph, Saudah Muhammad
Date: July 2020
Summarized by Sophia Maier
Marietta J. Tanner was born in 1928 in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania. Influenced by the activism of her father and the wartime experiences of her uncle, Marietta is a life-long political activist. Her parents explained to her from a young age their experiences in Jim Crow era Pennsylvania and by the age of six she was passing out political pamphlets and registering people to vote with the rest of her family. After attending a segregated school in her youth and a brief period …
Martinez, Maximo, Mark Naison
Martinez, Maximo, Mark Naison
Bronx African American History Project (BAAHP)
Interviewee: Maximo Martinez
Interviewers: Mark Naison and Lisa Betty
Date of Interview: February 14th 2020
Summary of Maximo Martinez Interview
Dr. Maximo Martinez was born and raised in the Bronx, but his family is from Honduras and his ethnic group, the Garifuna, live in Central America, mostly Honduras and Belize. Dr. Martinez answers questions about the Garifuna: culture, religion, language, history, etc…
The Garifuna are a small ethnic population who’s story begins with a slave ship shipwrecked off of the island of Saint Vincent. After mixing with indigenous Americans (Caribs and Arawak) on the island during the 1600s, the French …
Peterson, Robert, Mark Naison
Peterson, Robert, Mark Naison
Bronx African American History Project (BAAHP)
Interviewee: Robert Peterson
Interviewer: Dr. Mark Naison, Kathleen Palmer
Date of Interview: August 5, 2009
Summarized by Michael Kavanagh
Born in Brooklyn, December 18th 1926, Peterson has lived in the Bronx most of his life. His Father’s parents were first generation European immigrants from Sweden and Norway, respectively. They both settled in Yonkers, NY, where they first met and later got married. In 1895, Peterson’s father was born in Yonkers, NY. At the beginning of World War I, his father joined the United States Navy as a ship navigator. When World War I ended, his father returned home and worked …
Speller, Kathryn, Mark Naison
Speller, Kathryn, Mark Naison
Bronx African American History Project (BAAHP)
Interviewer: Brian Purnell, Princess Okieme
Interviewee: Kathryn Speller
Date of Interview: September 23, 2006
Summarized by Leigh Waterbury, January 31, 2006
Kathryn Speller grew up in what was referred to as welfare island, and then moved to the Bronx in the 1950’s. While growing up in the city, she experienced the racial segregation that limited what areas she was allowed in. She described the racism she experienced in not being allowed in certain places or having to enter buildings through the servants entrances.
While looking to move into the Bronx, Kathryn experienced a lot of difficulty in finding apartments available …
Bailey, Shirley, Mark Naison
Bailey, Shirley, Mark Naison
Bronx African American History Project (BAAHP)
Interviewee: Shirley Anderson Bailey
Interviewer: Dr. Mark Naison
The interview took place April 26, 2005
Summarized by Concetta Gleason 1-17-07
Shirley Anderson Bailey’s family, consisting of her mother, younger brother and herself, moved from Harlem to the Bronx in 1942 when Bailey was seven years old. Bailey’s family happened to move to the same area of the Bronx with some of their neighbors from Harlem. Bailey’s father was away trying to find work in Connecticut because of the Depression and Bailey’s mother took night classes and was one of the few working women in the neighborhood. Most families were two-parent …
Foster, Wendell, Mark Naison
Foster, Wendell, Mark Naison
Bronx African American History Project (BAAHP)
BRONX AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY PROJECT
INTERVIEWER: Mark Naison
INTERVIEWEE: Wendell Foster
SUMMARY BY: Patrick O’Donnell
Keywords: Segregation in the Deep South, racism in the South and North, Alabama, New Jersey, New York, Bermuda, AME church, blacks in World War II, civil rights movement, Malcolm X, Mt. Zion Church, race relations in Harlem
The Rev. Wendell Foster (b. 1924) is the pastor of Christ Church, and was the first African-American from the Bronx to be elected to the City Council. He was born in extreme poverty in Elba, Alabama. He never knew his father, who died shortly after he was born. …