Donna Maywar on Trenton Growing Up | Trenton
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0:00A: It was kind of like a different world then. A lot of people don’t talk about it. They talk about, oh, how Dunham’s used to be downtown and you could walk through downtown. There was a lot of bustling and hustling and buying things. But when I grew up, we had Black-owned businesses in my neighborhood. Hmm. The guy that we used to, Mr. Smitty, the guy we used to buy fish from around the corner on Calhoun Street. I’m from Hanover Street. a Black guy. The corner stores were all owned by Black people. So we grew up with Black people in businesses all over Trenton. I can’t even imagine. All of the businesses were owned by Blacks and slowly saw the corner store buildings are still there, but they’re owned by other people who don’t live in this community. So me growing up, we had Black teachers. Our teachers were Black. We saw examples of ourselves. All around here.
