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Title Interview with Monique Darrisaw
Reference 2011.07.01 CD 01
Library 5th of July Resource Center for Self-Determination & Freedom, Weeksville Heritage Center
Collection Name 2011 Weeksville Oral History Series, Weeksville Oral History Collection
Collection Overview The 2011 Oral History Collection provides information on the individuals associated with Historic Weeksville and Brooklyn. They document Weeksville and Brooklyn personal histories and memories from the early 1900s.
Date 11 Apr 2011
Description Monique Darrisaw is the founding principal of the Brooklyn Academy of Urban Planning. She was once a Weeksville Ambassador, and talks about her experience as a child going to Panama on the programme and how it impacted on her ideas about life. She discusses various schools and her memories of the Weeksville neighbourhood.
Document Type Oral History (Audio)
Theme(s) Education and Training
Keywords crime, schools, living conditions, education, employment, students, church, community organisations, travel, youth, segregation, integration, equality, food, finance, womanhood, university, poverty
Places Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York
Organisations/Associations Society for the Preservation of Weeksville and Bedford-Stuyvesant History
Note Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from the catalogue of Weeksville Heritage Center.
Name Darrisaw, Monique
Interviewer Greenidge, Kaitlyn
Date of Recording 11 Apr 2011
Duration 00:35:32
Copyright 5th of July Resource Center for Self-Determination & Freedom, Weeksville Heritage Center