Oral History

Albert "Bruce" Washington - Family history (clip)

Interviewed by Yvonne Cleveland and Priya Sreenivasan on March 11, 2023

Yvonne Cleveland (YC): How far back does your family go in this brickmasonry?

Albert “Bruce” Washington (ABW): I think it was just my uncle.

YC: Just your uncle?

ABW: Yeah, uh huh. And I forget who he worked for around here in Chapel Hill, but I can just remember him being around the house, filling different things around my grandmother’s house, and I kind of liked that.

YC: If you had to do it all over again, would you do it again?

ABW: Yes, brick has been good to me.

YC: *laughs

ABW: I just can’t do it anymore.

Albert "Bruce" Washington - Family history (clip)

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Oral history interview of Washington, Albert "Bruce" conducted by Cleveland, Yvonne on March 11, 2023 at Marian Cheek Jackson Center, Chapel Hill, NC.

Citation: Marian Cheek Jackson Center, “Albert "Bruce" Washington - Family history (clip),” From the Rock Wall, accessed October 22, 2024, https://fromtherockwall.org/oral-histories/albert-bruce-washington-family-history.

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