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Oral history recorded for the Bronx African American History Project on October 28, 2020 with Charles Turner, who spent much of his childhood and young adulthood in the United Workers Cooperative Colony, or the Allerton Coops, during the 1940s and 1950s. In his oral history, Charles remembers what it was like growing up in the Coops, some of the neighbors he had, who his close friends were, and how his acting career developed.

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 AUDIO RECORDING: http://cdm17265.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/baahp/id/116

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African American Studies | Public History

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