Don Capalbi, Clip 2: Irish and Italian Astoria

Collection: Queens Memory Project Collection at Queens College Libraries' Department of Special Collections and Archives: Don Capalbi

Date: Time Period: 1945 - 1965; 2012-07-17; Interview recorded: July 16 2012 Material: Digital audio recording made using TASCAM DR-07 digital recorder and Audacity. Dimension: Total running time: 0:01:47

Creator: Don Capalbi interviewed by Natalie Milbrodt Identifier: aql:20631 capalbi_don_clip2

Description: Don Capalbi recalls growing up in a neighborhood dominated by Irish and Italian residents. He believes his experiences with anti-Italian slurs as a young child led him to resist being prejudiced against other ethnic groups as an adult.

Title : Don Capalbi, Clip 2: Irish and Italian Astoria

Collection : aql:20455; aql:20806

Creator : Don Capalbi interviewed by Natalie Milbrodt

Date : Time Period: 1945 - 1965; 2012-07-17; Interview recorded: July 16 2012

Summary/Description : Don Capalbi recalls growing up in a neighborhood dominated by Irish and Italian residents. He believes his experiences with anti-Italian slurs as a young child led him to resist being prejudiced against other ethnic groups as an adult.

Subject : Ethnic relations; Neighborhoods

Relation : Queens Memory Project Collection at Queens College Libraries' Department of Special Collections and Archives: Don Capalbi

Rights : This recording is the property of Queens College Libraries' Department of Special Collections and Archives. Please contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.

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

Type : Oral history

Format : Digital audio recording made using TASCAM DR-07 digital recorder and Audacity.; Total running time: 0:01:47

Identifier : aql:20631 capalbi_don_clip2