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Part 1 of an oral history recorded for the Bronx African American History Project on March 16, 2023 with Marti Zuckrow, who grew up around the United Workers Cooperative Colony, or the Allerton Coops, located at 2700 Bronx Park East. Marti's father was a section editor for the Morgen Freiheit, a Yiddish-language Communist paper, and a member of the Communist Party U.S.A. Marti's sister, Peppy, married Al Wood, an African American whose family lived in the Coops. In the first part of her oral history, Marti speaks about her family history and background, her "outcast" identity growing up—being secular, have a social preference for Blacks, and being rebellious in general—, her early adulthood both in the Coops and elsewhere in New York City, and her decision to move to California.

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/119

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African American Studies | Public History

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