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Articles 1 - 7 of 7
Full-Text Articles in African American Studies
Loving,Julia, Mark Naison
Loving,Julia, Mark Naison
Oral Histories
Julia Loving, Summary of Interview with the Bronx African-American History Project
October 14th, 2020
Dr. Mark Naison and Alison Rini
Summarized by Amy Rini August, 2023
Bronx born public school librarian and high school educator Julia Loving’s parents were from Nelson County, Virginia. She has two older brothers, Jesse and Mark. Her grandparents were the only black store owners in 1920s Roseland, Virginia. In 1960, they moved up to New York City because their parents did not want their children to stay South in the height of Jim Crow. They met while going to colored schools and Baptist and Pentecostal …
No Innocence Here: How Irish, Jewish And Italian New Yorkers Benefited From Their Whiteness In Post-World War Ii Nyc, Mark Naison
No Innocence Here: How Irish, Jewish And Italian New Yorkers Benefited From Their Whiteness In Post-World War Ii Nyc, Mark Naison
Occasional Essays
No abstract provided.
Everette Brown, Jacqueline, Mark Naison
Everette Brown, Jacqueline, Mark Naison
Oral Histories
Interviewees: Jacqueline Everette Brown
Interviewers: Mark Naison
Date: August 2020
Summarized by Trystan Edwards
Jacqueline Everette Brown was born in the Bedstuy community of Brooklyn, New York. She fondly recollects her childhood as one of three girls in her family. Her mother and father migrated to New York from Georgia during the great migration in the late thirties. Brown and her family moved back to Georgia in the early 1950’s. It is during this time that she faced more overt racism, evidenced by her having to ride in the back of the bus. Nevertheless, Brown and her family quickly adjusted. …
Carolyn Bowman, Mark Naison
Carolyn Bowman, Mark Naison
Oral Histories
Interviewees: Carolyn Bowman
Interviewers: Mark Naison, Avery Russell, Diana Joseph, Saudah Muhammad
Date:August 2020
Transcriber: Kate Caperan
Soror Carolyn Bowman was initiated on the first line of the Eta Omega Omega Chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority in 1966. Bowman was born and raised in Harlem, Manhattan. After graduating from Julia Richmond High School, Bowman attended the City College of New York (CCNY) for her undergraduate years, and the Rabinowitz School of Social Work at Hunter College from which she received a Master’s Degree in 1964. She then briefly worked at the Brooklyn Bureau of Community Service in Foster …
Clement, Irma, Bronx African American History Project
Clement, Irma, Bronx African American History Project
Oral Histories
Interviewee: Irma Clement
Interviewers: Mark Naison,Lionel Spencer and Donna Joseph, and Saudah Muhammad
Transcribed by Amy Rini, 10-17-22, revised 3.23
Ms. Irma Clement is the oldest member of Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc., ®and has been a member of the Sorority for over seventy-five years. She was born 1920 in Joliet, Illinois and grew up in Alcoa Tennessee.
Ms. Clement attended segregated schools and noted that the “all black” teachers inspired her and sparked a fire of determination to continue her education beyond the poverty and limitations of the circumstances. She graduated from high school …
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 …
Jackson, Sheila And Ann Myers, Mark Naison
Jackson, Sheila And Ann Myers, Mark Naison
Oral Histories
Interviewees: Sheila Jackson, Ann Myers
Interviewers: Mark Naison, Saudah Muhammad, April Fowler
Transcriber: Christian Contreras
Bronx African History Project founder Professor Mark Naison discussed with two members of the historically black sorority Alpha Kappa Alpha- Sheila Jackson and Ann Myers. The sorors (members of a sorority) pledged to the Eta Eta Omega Chapter (or Bronx AKAs) in 1978. During the interview, the sorors covered their biographies, the Eta Omega chapter's community projects, and the evolution of their branch and the AKA sorority as a whole.
Biographies:
Sheila Jackson was born in the Harlem Hospital and has one older sister. For …