To feel at home

Transcript

Transcript

If a man can’t feel at home somewhere, he can’t make a home anywhere – And African American people, in over 400 years of our history here, we’ve never been allowed to feel at home. But in spite of all of that, you know, I feel with God as our witness, that this is our home. You know, as much as any other people we have earned the right to say that.

Description

Excerpt from an interview with Robert Harris, whose uncle Eugene Coffee, Jr. died in the munitions explosion at Port Chicago Naval Magazine.

Credit

Interview by Isabel Ziegler and Anna Christie, National Park Service, July 25, 2023

Date Created

07/25/2023

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