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Best, Gloria And Best, Adrian, Bronx African American History Project
Best, Gloria And Best, Adrian, Bronx African American History Project
Oral Histories
Interviewees: Gloria and Adrian Best
Interviewers: Dr. Mark Naison
Date of Interview: July 1, 2003
Summarized by Alice Stryker
Gloria Best lived in the Bronx for most of her life and lived in Manhattan only for a short while when she was a child. When she moved back to the Bronx, she was 12 years old and moved to Union Avenue. She attended Morris High School and attended Zion Apostolic. Morris High School as well as the neighborhood she lived in at the time were predominately white.
Her husband was in the military and when they initially got married they …