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  • Call NumberOSOS_OH_0099
  • Summary(1:53) Creating a schedule -- (2:35) Moved to Bed-Stuy in 2016 -- (3:00) Worked in local restaurants -- (3:40) Learned of Bed-Stuy Strong mutual aid group from flyer in store window -- (4:38) Assembling resources for restaurant workers, including those undocumented -- (5:30) Managing group’s community fund -- (6:30) Neighborhood changes: eerie quiet -- (7:55) Work in mutual aid -- (8:50) Old Bed-Stuy vs. New Bed-Stuy -- (10:22) Gentrification -- (11:53) Displacement, also new residents involved in community -- (13:00) Neighborhood poverty exacerbated by epidemic. Mutual aid groups can respond more nimbly than government -- (15:10) Worry about sustainability of mutual aid -- (17:15) Worry about continuing need, a second wave of the epidemic – (18:12) Need for political action -- (19:35) Mutual aid groups and politics -- (21:13) Epidemic as a politicizing event. 
  • Date2020-05-09
  • Physical Description1 sound file (24 min) : digital, MP3
  • CreatorWade, Hadass
  • CollectionBrooklyn Covid-19 Stories
  • 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
  • Genreinterviews
  • NoteAudio interview conducted on May 9, 2020, by Zoe Grueskin. Collected for the Covid-19 Oral History Project 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.
  • SubjectQuarantine ; COVID-19 (Disease) ; Epidemics ; Coronaviruses ; Fraternal organizations ; Gentrification
  • PlaceBedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.)
  • RightsThis work is covered by a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Users are free to share and adapt the work for non-commercial purposes as long as appropriate credit is given to the source and new material created with this work is shared under the same conditions.
  • TitleOral history interview with Hadass Wade on 2020 May 9.