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Beckford, Hugh, Bronx African American History Project
Beckford, Hugh, Bronx African American History Project
Oral Histories
INTERVIEWER: Natasha Lightfoot
INTERVIEWEE: Hugh Beckford
SUMMARY BY: Patrick O’Donnell
Hugh Beckford is the director of Caribbean American Family Services, an organization that he established in 1991. He is a 1985 graduate of Fordham College, Rose Hill, where he studied theology and sociology. Beckford was born in Trelawney, Jamaica, and was raised by his grandparents because his parents divorced when he was young. He was locally educated in Jamaican public schools and attended St. George’s College in Kingston, a boarding school. As a young man he was considered one of the best dancers in Jamaica and occasionally appeared on national …
Kogolo, Raymond, Jr., Bronx African American History Project
Kogolo, Raymond, Jr., Bronx African American History Project
Oral Histories
Interviewee: Raymond Kogolo Jr.
Interviewers: Ogonetojoh Okoh, Brian Purnell
Summarized By: Eddie Mikus
Raymond Kogolo Jr. is a Bronx resident who came to the borough from Lagos, Nigeria, in order to attend Fordham University. In his interview, he discussed his experience at a Nigerian boarding school as well as his life in the Bronx as a Nigerian immigrant.
As a child, Kogolo’s mother came to the Bronx due to her job as an airline pilot and split the family’s time between the borough and Nigeria. Kogolo said that many of the children he played in the Bronx were either African-American …