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Oral history recorded for the Bronx African American History Project on December 3, 2020 with Judith Winston Rozanski, who grew up in the United Workers Cooperative Colony, or the Allerton Coops, during the 1950s and 1960s. Her father, Henry Winston, was an African American civil rights activist and leading member of the Communist Party U.S.A. who was indicted with other leaders of the Party in 1948 and subsequently went underground for multiple years. After a number of years, he turned himself in and was locked up in a federal penitentiary for the majority of Judith's childhood. In her oral history, Judith speaks about her childhood in the Coops with her mother and brother, the constant FBI surveillance of her family, the difficulty in relating to her father after his release, and many other aspects of her life.

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/115

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African American Studies | Public History

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