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Geraldine Ingram & Harriet L. Peterson

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Harriet L. Peterson, Geraldine Ingram

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Harriet Peterson is a member of the Tents and Geraldine Ingram is a friend of the organization. Longtime Brooklyn residents. Harriet Peterson was born in 1943 at Harlem Hospital in Manhattan. She grew up with her family on the Upper East Side. Her family moved to Brooklyn when Harriet was three. She recalls taking music lessons because her mother “wanted (her) to be refined”. Harriet took piano lessons with a Maude B. Cummings-Taylor on Halsey Street in Bed-Stuy. Harriet married at 19, and had two children by the time she was 22. She recounts here how she was involved in the Civil Rights movement in Brooklyn and was a Freedom Rider. Harriet became interested in Civil Rights through her mother’s friend, a Miss Lilly. Geraldine scaled back her involvement in the movement when she saw protestors begin to be arrested in the North. She decided she did not want to become involved, for the sake of her daughters. Harriet is a member of Bed-Stuy’s First AME Zion church. Harriet runs the Youth Missionary Service of the Church. Harriet Peterson has been a member of the Tents since she was six years old. Geraldine Ingram was born in 1933 in Winston, North Carolina. She had a younger sister and two older brothers; she was raised by her father, as her mother died when she was young. In 1941, when Geraldine was eight years old, her paternal aunt took Geraldine and her sister to live with her in New York. Geraldine’s sister...
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Oral History Wav
Contributors:
Harriet L. Peterson, Geraldine Ingram, Meron Tebeje
Created Date:
1943 2008
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Weeksville Heritage Center