Before the Fires: An Oral History of African American Life in the Bronx from the 1930s to the 1960s by Bob Gumbs, Mark Naison

Before the Fires: An Oral History of African American Life in the Bronx from the 1930s to the 1960s

Bob Gumbs, Mark Naison

218 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history emotional medium-paced
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People associate the South Bronx with gangs, violence, drugs, crime, burned-out buildings, and poverty. This is the message that has been driven into their heads over the years by the media. As Howard Cosell famously said during the 1977 World's S...

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