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Oral history recorded for the Bronx African American History Project on October 22, 2020 with Melissa Taylor, who grew up in the United Workers Cooperative Colony, or the Allerton Coops. Her father, Bill Taylor, was originally from South Carolina, and his sister Angie Dickerson and brother Richard Taylor also lived in the Coops. Melissa's mother was of Eastern European Ashkenazi Jewish background.

In her oral history, Melissa speaks about her family's history and background, her father's labor and other activism, FBI and CIA surveillance of her family, her experience in the public school system, and much more.

The interviewer is Steven Payne, director of The Bronx County Historical Society. The Bronx African American History Project is a community-based oral history project of Fordham University and The Bronx County Historical Society.

LINK TO VIDEO RECORDING: http://cdm17265.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/baahp/id/121

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African American Studies | Public History

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