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  • Call NumberOSOS_OH_0037-accs
  • Summary(0:25) Moving to a Bed-Stuy brownstone in 1953 -- (1:00) Growing up in Stuyvesant Heights -- (1:10) Attending the same school Jackie Robinson did -- (1:30) Going from Catholic school to public school -- (1:44) Graduating from P.S. 262 -- (1:56) Attending P.S. 35 and being in the last graduating class from Stephen Decatur Junior High School -- (2:19) Pride in Bed-Stuy and lack of racism within the neighborhood in the 1960s -- (2:40) Playing stickball and skully -- (3:33) Learning about slavery and black history from white teachers -- (3:50) Walking with Martin Luther King Jr. and seeing Malcolm X in Harlem -- (4:07) Seeing Bobby Kennedy on Nostrand Avenue and Al Sharpton at Sylvia's Restaurant in Harlem -- (4:48) Seeing racism after graduating high school in 1968 -- (5:18) Racial mix in Bed-Stuy in the 1950s -- (5:54) Past neighborhood cohesion and closeness with police and sanitation workers -- (6:44) Collecting bottles and coins to make a little extra money -- (8:01) Candy store on Reid Avenue -- (8:26) Summer art fair in the park -- (8:59) African fair -- (9:33) Nelson Mandela's visit to Brooklyn -- (10:10) Crime amongst youth -- (11:36) Importance of Bed-Stuy sticking together as a neighborhood.
  • Date2016-07-08
  • Physical Description1 sound file (13 min.) : digital, MP3
  • CreatorMoultrie-Fogg, Yolanda
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • Digital Public Library of AmericaThis item is represented in the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA).
  • Formatsound recording-nonmusical
  • GenreinterviewsMP3
  • NoteAudio interview conducted on July 8, 2016, by Taina Evans at Tompkins Park Senior Center. Collected through Our Streets, Our Stories, an oral history project of Brooklyn Public Library. This project is a partnership with Services for Older Adults and the Brooklyn Collection.
  • SubjectAfrican Americans--History ; Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972 ; Community development ; Youth development ; Racism ; King, Martin Luther, 1899-1984 ; X, Malcolm, 1925-1965 ; Harlem ; Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968 ; Sharpton, Al ; Mandela, Nelson, 1918-2013 ; Fairs ; Crime ; Parks ; Black history ; Slavery ; Games
  • PlaceBedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.)
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  • TitleOral history interview conducted with Yolanda Moultrie-Fogg on 2016 July 8.