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Date: Time Period: 1960 - 1970
Subject:
Airports
| La Guardia Airport
Type: Oral history
Identifier: aql:20622
Description:
Lisa Stewart describes hanging out with friends on the tarmac at LaGuardia Airport. Security never stopped them from wandering around the runways. They would chat with passengers and pilots arriving i
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Date: Time Period: 1960s
Type: Oral history
Identifier: aql:20563
Description:
Nettie and Lisa Stewart describe going to Aquacade in Flushing Meadows Park. Their neighbor gave them free tickets to the show in the summer. They describe the show, and compare it to an Esther Willia
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Date: Time Period: circa 1960
Subject:
Parks
| Skating
| Snow
| Children
| New York Islanders (Hockey team)
| James A. Bland Houses
Type: Oral history
Identifier: aql:20571
Description:
Lisa Stewart describes walking to Kissena Park in the snow and going on a special trip with her mother, Nettie Stewart, each year. Mrs. Stewart would take her children and their friends from the build
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Date: Time Period: circa 1959
Subject:
Church membership
| African Americans
| Families
| James A. Bland Houses
| St. John's Lutheran Church (Flushing, New York, N.Y.)
Type: Oral history
Identifier: aql:20542
Description:
Lisa Stewart describes her family being one of only two African American families in the congregation at St. John's Lutheran Church, but feeling accepted and part of the community.
Date: Time Period: circa 1959
Subject:
Schools
| Segregation
| Students
| Castro, Fidel, 1926-2016
| James A. Bland Houses
| John Bowne High School
Type: Oral history
Identifier: aql:20517
Description:
Nettie and Lisa Stewart describe the foreign students (including Fidel Castro's son and daughter) who attended P.S. 20 John Bowne Elementary School in the 1960's. Lisa says classes were segregated wit
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Date: Time Period: 1951 - 2011
Type: Oral history
Identifier: aql:20645
Description:
Nettie and Lisa Stewart say Flushing Creek was polluted for years until the Sky View shopping and housing development was built on its banks. Before that, residents in nearby Bland Houses could smell
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Date: Time Period: 1941 - 2011
Type: Oral history
Identifier: aql:20497
Description:
Nettie Stewart describes how her mother used to ask for donations for neighbors in times of hardship. She does the same today for her neighbors. She talks about giving furniture and blankets to her ne
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Date: Time Period: 1941 - 2011
Subject:
Segregation
| African Americans
| Motion picture theaters
| Neighborhoods
| Emigration and immigration
| Cultural pluralism
| Castro, Fidel, 1926-2016
| James A. Bland Houses
| John Bowne High School
| La Guardia Airport
| New York World's Fair (1964-1965 : New York, N.Y.)
| New York Islanders (Hockey team)
Type: Oral history
Identifier: aql:20652
Description:
Nettie Stewart moved with her parents from South Carolina in 1941 to Jamaica, Queens where her father worked as a minister for the African Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1951, Nettie and her husband m
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