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Dacosta, Linval, Bronx African American History Project
Dacosta, Linval, Bronx African American History Project
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INTERVIEWER: Mark Naison, Natasha Lightfoot
INTERVIEWEE: Linval DaCosta
SUMMARY BY: Patrick O’Donnell
Linval DaCosta is a supervisor in the New York City Housing Authority and a head organizer for the Cricket in the Bronx league. He was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1938 and came to the US on December 10, 1950, whereupon he joined his parents, who had already immigrated. He did his elementary-middle schooling in Harlem, attended Stuyvesant High, and then went to CUNY Baruch for college, where he was (and continues to be) a member of the NAACP. He grew up playing cricket and soccer in …