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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 …