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Cyril Innis Jr., Clip 1: Comrades and Pigs

Collection: StoryCorps Collection at The Archives at Queens Library
Date: Time Period: 1950 - 1960; 2007-12-18; Interview recorded: December 18, 2007 Material: Digital audio recording made using a digital recorder and Adobe Soundbooth. Dimension: Total running time: 0:04:46
Creator: Cyril Innis Jr. interviewed by Quentin Weld Identifier: aql:22309 scc-cij-clip-000001

Description: Cyril talks about his life in East Elmhurst, and running "with your rumble". Many of his friends from the neighborhood are gone from heroine, or the Vietnam war. He talks about people he knew in the Black Panther Party, and how many are gone, and about the split between the East Coast and West Coast Panthers. He also talks about his interesting nickname for the police.

Collection : aql:20455; aql:22325

Creator : Cyril Innis Jr. interviewed by Quentin Weld

Date : Time Period: 1950 - 1960; 2007-12-18; Interview recorded: December 18, 2007

Summary/Description : Cyril talks about his life in East Elmhurst, and running "with your rumble". Many of his friends from the neighborhood are gone from heroine, or the Vietnam war. He talks about people he knew in the Black Panther Party, and how many are gone, and about the split between the East Coast and West Coast Panthers. He also talks about his interesting nickname for the police.

Subject : Friendship; Neighborhoods; Black Panther Party

Rights : Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.; Produced by John White with interviews recorded by StoryCorps, a national nonprofit whose mission is to provide Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of our lives. www.storycorps.org

Coverage : Locations discussed: East Elmhurst, Queens, NY East Elmhurst (New York, N.Y.) Corona (New York, N.Y.) Queens (New York, N.Y.)

Type : Oral history

Format : Digital audio recording made using a digital recorder and Adobe Soundbooth.; Total running time: 0:04:46

Identifier : aql:22309 scc-cij-clip-000001

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Friendship; Neighborhoods; Black Panther Party

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Rights Notice
Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.; Produced by John White with interviews recorded by StoryCorps, a national nonprofit whose mission is to provide Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of our lives. www.storycorps.org


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