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She describes the way homeowners were persuaded to buy and sell along racial lines.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClip 4: \u003c/strong\u003eGladys Weaver (nee Simpkins) grew up in Jamaica, Queens in the 1940s. For a nickel, she could get to Manhattan, but the subway hadn't been extended all the way to her neighborhood. She would take the train to Forest Hills and then take a trolley and buses to get the rest of the way to Jamaica. 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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 \u0026amp;amp; 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.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCC BY-NC-SA Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["http://digitalarchives.queenslibrary.org/search/browse/16083"]}},{"label":{"en":["Date"]},"value":{"en":["2013-04-25 (created)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Agent"]},"value":{"en":["Gladys Weave (Interviewee)","Barbara Deyoung-Ezell (Interviewer)","Marguerite Luizzo (Interviewer)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Coverage"]},"value":{"en":["Jamaica, Queens, NY (spatial)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Language"]},"value":{"en":["English"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003eClip 1: \u003c/strong\u003eGladys Weaver (nee Simpkins) moved as a child to Jamaica, Queens and moved into a nearby co-op in 1952 soon after her marriage to John Weaver. Mrs. Weaver describes how Jamaica has changed during her lifetime. She worked at the Silvercup Bakery in Long Island City (now Silvercup Studios). Today, she laments that much of Jamaica's cohesion as a community has now eroded.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003eClip 2: \u003c/strong\u003eGladys Weaver (nee Simpkins) describes the stores on New York Boulevard (now Guy Brewer Blvd), the main street in Jamaica, Queens in the 1940s. 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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 \u0026amp;amp; 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. 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