MY TAKE From the Editor and Publisher
An Echo of My Past
Reflections on my childhood on Long Island in the 1960s It was my seventh birthday, February 18, 1967. My parents threw me an elaborate party at our home on Long Island (photo facing page). They owned a beautiful, then-modern split-level house in a suburban community called Lakeview. The times were frankly not good racially. Lakeview had been a largely white community when my parents became homeowners in 1958. When they and other black families moved in, white families moved away; it was called “white flight.” Before some of them left, they even posted rather disgusting signs on their lawns to discourage us from being around them, like in the photo below.
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Courtesy Malverne Historical & Preservation Society
We hope you will find much to enlighten and entertain you in BAVUAL.
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BAVUAL:
The African Heritage Magazine
| Fall 2021
