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Foundations
The Purposeful Walk
In its heyday, Brooklyn was a tight-knit community and a hub for local Black businesses.
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Interviewee: Reverend Janet Garner-Mullins
Topics: Community of care and Brooklyn's heyday, losses, businesses and community autonomy, childhood activities, gathering spaces, Pearl Street Park, drug store accounts
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Interviewee: Mamie Faulkner Cuthbertson
Topics: Teachers and neighbors helped each other and were important members of a tight-knit community that is now lost, Queen City Classic Queen parade
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Interviewee: Mary Louise Lightsey
Topics: Fatback King, Charlie's Bakery, sleeping on the front porch, getting splashed by cars walking to school
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