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Crier, Arthur, Bronx African American History Project
Crier, Arthur, Bronx African American History Project
Oral Histories
Interviewee: Arthur Crier
Interviewer: Mark Naison
Summarized by Concetta Gleason
Crier is an organizer of the Morissania Review and a leading figure in Doo-Wop and Rhythm and Blues in the Morrisania community. Crier was born in 1935 in Harlem, but raised on Prospect Ave in the Bronx. His mother was from the South, specifically North Carolina, which is where he currently resides. He attended a mixed elementary school and also played street games with the other children on the block. The schools were very good and teachers genuinely cared for their students. The neighborhood was safe and the families looked …