Thurs., Dec. 12, 6pm
Van Cortlandt House Museum, Herb Cellar
Broadway at W. 246th Street
The Bronx, NY 10471
Register: https://bronxhistory.org/coops-lecture
In this lecture, I'll be discussing some little-known aspects of the history of the United Workers Cooperative Colony—better known as the Allerton Coops—in The Bronx. The Coops was an outlier at the time for being one of the first interracial housing complexes in The Bronx, with evidence of African-American residents as early as 1930.My talk will analyze the reasons for this unique yet complex history at the Allerton Coops while recovering the lives of some of the earliest African-American and multiracial residents during the 1930s–1960s, drawing on oral histories, documents, photographs, and other items from the collections of the Historical Society.
Van Cortlandt House Museum, Herb Cellar
Broadway at W. 246th Street
The Bronx, NY 10471
Register: https://bronxhistory.org/coops-lecture
In this lecture, I'll be discussing some little-known aspects of the history of the United Workers Cooperative Colony—better known as the Allerton Coops—in The Bronx. The Coops was an outlier at the time for being one of the first interracial housing complexes in The Bronx, with evidence of African-American residents as early as 1930.My talk will analyze the reasons for this unique yet complex history at the Allerton Coops while recovering the lives of some of the earliest African-American and multiracial residents during the 1930s–1960s, drawing on oral histories, documents, photographs, and other items from the collections of the Historical Society.
