Abstract
In this 2024 interview, Thea Bowman Center employee Bernard Long discusses his life growing up on E. 120th Street in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood. He describes attending Catholic school, living in the area during the Civil Rights Movement, and spending time at Boddie Studio on Union Avenue. He describes the diverse ethnicities that lived in the area and the later white flight that occurred when white families moved out of Mount Pleasant into the suburbs. He also discusses his family, his friends, the impact of music, and the role of the church.
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Interviewee
Long, Bernard (interviewee)
Interviewer
Carubia, Ava (interviewer)
Project
Union-Miles
Date
11-19-2024
Document Type
Oral History
Duration
63 minutes
Recommended Citation
"Bernard Long interview, 19 November 2024" (2024). Cleveland Regional Oral History Collection. Interview 483001.
https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/crohc000/1352
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