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Jenkins, Arthur, Bronx African American History Project
Jenkins, Arthur, Bronx African American History Project
Oral Histories
Interviewee: Arthur Jenkins
Interviewer: Dr. Mark Naison, Maxine Gordon, Dr. Brian Purnell
Summarized by Alice Stryker
Arthur Jenkins is a musician who grew up in the Morrisania section of the Bronx. His mother’s side of the family moved to New York City from Houston, Texas. His grandmother had moved the family to Harlem, where his mother met his father. When Jenkins was born, his family was living in Harlem and shortly thereafter moved to the Bronx. His father worked as a garment presser and worked for a tailor.
He first began playing in bands when he was attending Junior High …
Cannon, Paul And Williams, Jerald And Johnson, Woodrow, Bronx African American History Project
Cannon, Paul And Williams, Jerald And Johnson, Woodrow, Bronx African American History Project
Oral Histories
Interviewer: Mark Naison, Brian Purnell
Interviewee: Paul Cannon, Woody Johnson, Gerald Williams
Date: 11/10/05
Summarized by Salmaan Khan on 4/14/07
Gerald Williams was born in Newport News, Virginia. He moved to the Morrisania section of the Bronx with his mother with the intention of working and moving back. Gerald attempted to earn some money by working a job at the Hotel Diplomat on 43rd street in order to go to Canada to play in the International Table Tennis Tournament. They chose to move to the Bronx because of friends his mother had in the Bronx. He was 13 when …
Brath, Elombe, Bronx African American History Project
Brath, Elombe, Bronx African American History Project
Oral Histories
Interviewers: Mark Naison, Maxine Gordon
Interviewee: Elombe Brath
Date of interview: 21 June, 2005
Summarized by: Craig Teal, 26 March 2007
Elombe Brath is a longtime political activist in New York City who is one of the founders of the Jazz Arts Society and was active in organizing some of the first cultural pageants in New York City in the 1960s. Born on September 30, 1936 in Brooklyn, Elombe grew up in Harlem and in Hunt’s Point on 751 Kelly Street between Longwood Avenue and 156th Street. His family moved into a crossroads area of the Bronx that was …