Yama Wilson, Clip 5: The Projects Rite of Passage

Collection: Queens Memory Collection at the Archives at Queens Library: Yama Wilson

Date: Time Period: 1960s; 2016-04-08; Interview recorded: April 8, 2016 Material: Digital audio recording made using H2n Zoom digital recorder and Adobe Soundbooth. Dimension: Total running time: 0:08:58

Creator: Yama Wilson interviewed by Reshad Hai and Arbesh Khan Identifier: aql:20447 qmp-yw-clip-000007

Description: Yama talks about growing up in the Soundview Projects in Harlem. He discusses the bullying he would experience. He talks about his home situation and the people he grew up with.

Title : Yama Wilson, Clip 5: The Projects Rite of Passage

Collection : aql:20455; aql:20453

Creator : Yama Wilson interviewed by Reshad Hai and Arbesh Khan

Date : Time Period: 1960s; 2016-04-08; Interview recorded: April 8, 2016

Summary/Description : Yama talks about growing up in the Soundview Projects in Harlem. He discusses the bullying he would experience. He talks about his home situation and the people he grew up with.

Subject : Gangs; Police brutality

Relation : Queens Memory Collection at the Archives at Queens Library: Yama Wilson

Rights : Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.

Coverage : Locations discussed: Harlem, New York, NY Harlem (New York, N.Y.) Jamaica (New York, N.Y.) Queens (New York, N.Y.)

Type : Oral history

Format : Digital audio recording made using H2n Zoom digital recorder and Adobe Soundbooth.; Total running time: 0:08:58

Identifier : aql:20447 qmp-yw-clip-000007