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Hill, Elighu Eldrid, Bronx African American History Project
Hill, Elighu Eldrid, Bronx African American History Project
Oral Histories
Interviewee: Eldrid Hill
Interviewer: Dr. Mark Niason, Ricardo Soto-Lopez, Dana Driskell
Summarized by Sheina Ledesma
Eldrid Hill is a former lieutenant of the New York City Fire Department who has been a long time resident of both Harlem and the Bronx. He has also been deeply involved in local politics and urban planning and a member of Community Board 3 in the Bronx for several decades. Hill was born on July 12, 1928 in Harlem. His mother was from the Dutch side of the island of St. Martin while his father was from St. Kitts. His father was an alcoholic …
Cruse, Harrison Jr., Bronx African American History Project
Cruse, Harrison Jr., Bronx African American History Project
Oral Histories
Interviewee: Harrison Cruse, Jr.
Interviewer: Mark Naison
Summarized by Sheina Ledesma
Harrison Cruse, Jr. was born on August 10, 1935 in Morningside Heights, Harlem. His mother’s family was originally from Virginia and North Carolina but decided to move north during the 1920’s after experiencing an increasingly racist and violent climate due to activity by the Ku Klux Klan. His father was African American and Native American and had grown up on an Indian reservation with his mother in Roanoke Virginia. His father served in the First World War and later joined the Northwestern Railroad where he worked for many years. …
Yartel Iii, Nan, Bronx African American History Project
Yartel Iii, Nan, Bronx African American History Project
Oral Histories
Nan Yartel III was born on the 15th of an unmentioned month in 1965 in a village called Amatsou in the West African nation of Ghana. He attended primary school from 1971 until 1981. He is a member of the Fanti ethnic groups, one of the many different ethnic groups found in Ghana.
As a member of the Fanti people, he was able to obtain the position of chief, which enabled him the opportunity to finish his secondary education and thus came to the United States to do such that. He completed his education back in his homeland of …