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Date recordedApril 25, 2013DescriptionGladys Weaver was born in Saluda, South Carolina. When she was still very young, her parents decided to relocate the family to New York City. They first lived in Manhattan but did not enjoy the crowded apartment living conditions. The family soon moved to Jamaica, Queens, where they were able to live in a house with a backyard and driveway. Gladys thoroughly enjoyed her early life in Jamaica. Neighbors were all well acquainted and treated each other like family. She attended P.S. 40 elementary school, Jamaica Vocational High School and also took a course in Business Administration at Royal Business School in Manhattan. She married her husband in 1947 and despite learning from the doctors that she could not conceive, gave birth to a son in 1951. Religion has always been a core component of Gladys' life. She took a General Bible course at Tabernacle Bible Institute and also earned a master's degree in theology and religious education at United Christian College. In the course of her religious education, she has been licensed as a missionary, ordained as a minister and has also been a church elder. As Gladys lived through these experiences, Jamaica progressively changed. The neighborhood's transformation began during the 1950s when the government actively encouraged whites to move out and settled blacks into the neighborhood. Today, Gladys laments that much of Jamaica's cohesion and community-feel have now eroded. Present day Jamaica is drastically different from the predominantly Italian American community of the 1940s.IntervieweeWeaver, GladysInterviewerDeyounge-Ezell, BarbaraLuizzo, MargueriteSourceQueens Memory is an ongoing program dedicated to the preservation of contemporary history in New York City’s borough of Queens through the diverse personal histories of its residents. For more information, visit QueensMemory.org.Geographic coverageSaint Albans (New York, N.Y.)Jamaica (New York, N.Y.)Queens (New York, N.Y.)Temporal coverage1940 - 1960Identifierweaver-gladys-2013-04-25-fullSubjectComing of ageUrbanizationCity and town lifeReligious educationAfrican American familiesAfrican Americans--HousingEthnic neighborhoodsWeaver, GladysLanguageEnglishTypeOral historyDuration00:42:16Rights statementContact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.

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