Bernard Long interview, 19 November 2024
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: In this 2024 interview, Thea Bowman Center employee Bernard Long discusses his life growing up on E. 120th Street in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood. He describes attending Catholic school, living in the area during the Civil Rights Movement, and spending time at Boddie Studio on Union Avenue. He describes the diverse ethnicities that lived in the area and the later white flight that occurred when white families moved out of Mount Pleasant into the suburbs. He also discusses his family, his friends, the impact of music, and the role of the church.
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7045700987
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