Voices of Brooklyn oral histories: Community activists
2007 - present (2008.031)

ABOUT THIS COLLECTION

This series includes oral histories collected through several projects undertaken by Brooklyn Historical Society beginning in 2007. The assembled series took shape in 2008 under the project title “Brooklyn History Makers.” The ongoing oral history collection, retitled in 2016, features a range of narrators: Civil rights activists, documenters, and preservationists among them, who describe the changes they have observed in their neighborhoods and in society over decades.

This collection was processed and described as part of the project, ‘Voices of Generations: Investigating Brooklyn’s Cultural Identity,’ funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) and The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation.

Voices of Brooklyn oral histories: Community activists