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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 …
Johnson, Gwendolyn And Banks, Janet, Bronx African American History Project
Johnson, Gwendolyn And Banks, Janet, Bronx African American History Project
Oral Histories
INTERVIEWEES: Gwendolyn Johnson and Janet Banks
SUMMARY BY: Patrick O’Donnell
Janet Banks (b. 3/31/1917) was born in Worcester, MA and came to the Bronx in 1942. Up until the time of her high school graduation, Banks was raised by her grandmother. She graduated from high school in 1936, married in 1940, and moved to the Bronx with her husband in 1942, so she could live close to her mother. Banks immediately fell in love with the Bronx and has been there ever since. Although she was raised in the Episcopalian church, she converted to Catholicism in 1948. She is …