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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 …