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Bronx faces and voices : sixteen stories of courage and community
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"For the first time in print, rich, provocative first-hand stories of life in the Bronx in the twentieth century. In Bronx Faces and Voices, sixteen men and women tell their personal, uncensored st...
"For the first time in print, rich, provocative first-hand stories of life in the Bronx in the twentieth century. In Bronx Faces and Voices, sixteen men and women tell their personal, uncensored stories of the New York City borough--before, during, and after the troubled years of arson, crime, abandonment, and flight in the 1970s and 1980s. The voices in this volume are as eclectic as the Bronx itself: elected officials, religious leaders, and activists who were determined to preserve the beauty of their parks and stability of their community. They had the courage to stay and fight against drug dealers, absent and indifferent landlords, banks that red-lined entire neighborhoods, and a voracious media that made of the Bronx an international symbol of urban disaster. Some are no longer alive. But each of the sixteen played a positive role in a pivotal time, and they all deserve to be remembered and to have their voices heard. Portraits in this volume by noted photographers Georgeen Comerford and Walter Rosenblum document the Bronx 'faces' in their beauty and diversity: young and old, witnesses to the history they lived and created"--
"Oral history of the development and progression of the Bronx borough in New York City by sixteen individuals; includes 22 images of Bronx individuals"--Provided by publisher.
Details
- Creator
- edited by Emita Brady Hill and Janet Butler Munch ; foreword by Fernando Ferrer ; preface by Ray Bromley ; photographs by Georgeen Comerford and Walter Rosenblum
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- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Lubbock, Texas : Texas Tech University Press, 2014
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource
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- ISBNs
- 9780896728899, 0896728897, 9780896728882, 0896728889
- OCLC
- ocn933516569
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction by Emita Hill -- Part One. The First Wave -- Moe (Morris Greenstein) -- Irving (Irving Bick) -- Part Two. Community Organizers -- Ada (Ada Quiñones) -- Rae (Raquel Flores) -- Carmen (Carmen Bermudez) -- Susan (Susan Boyd) -- Part Three. The Stabilizers -- Father Bob (Father Robert Banome) -- Eae (Eae Mitchell) -- The Bishop (Bishop Ernest Crooms) -- Part Four. Movers and Shakers -- Irma (Irma Fleck) -- Mike (Michael Nuñez) -- Ray (Ramon Velez) -- Part Five. The Politicians -- Stanley (Stanley Friedman) -- Jay (Harrison J. Goldin) -- Bobby (Robert Abrams) -- Mario (Mario Biaggi) -- Afterword -- Epilogue -- Contributors -- Appendix A: Map Showing Distribution of Interviews in BRACHS by Neighborhood -- Appendix B: Chronology of Elected Officials
Subjects
- New York (N.Y.) -- Biography -- Portraits.
- New York (N.Y.) -- Biography.
- Bronx (New York, N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
- Bronx (New York, N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
- Bronx (New York, N.Y.) -- Biography -- Portraits.
- Bronx (New York, N.Y.) -- Biography.
- Courage -- New York (State) -- New York -- Case studies.
- Community development -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.
- Urban beautification -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.
- Community life -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.