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  • Call NumberOSOS_OH_0319-accs
  • Summary(0:27) Political participation of youth will bring utopia-- (01:10) Commemorating the 400th anniversary of 1619 -- (02:00) Relevance of the work of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman to current political and social conditions -- (03:13) Attending Inez Dickens’ speech at Brown Memorial on slavery -- (03:50) Reading of Toni Morrison’s novel “Beloved” -- (04:30) Knowledge of history empowers
  • Date2019-10-26
  • Physical Description1 sound file (5 min.) : digital, MP3
  • CreatorOKeKe, Bernadette
  • 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 October 26, 2019, by Lina Chang at the Central Library. 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 ; African Americans--History ; Youth--Political activity ; Abolitionists ; Utopia
  • PlaceBrooklyn (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 Bernadette OKeKe conducted on 2019 October 26.