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Oral history interview with Carrington Lloyd Buddoo

Anacostia Community Museum

Object Details

General
Associated documentation for this interview is available in the Anacostia Community Museum Archives.
Title created by ACMA staff using text written on sound cassette, contents of audio recording, textual transcript, and/or associated archival documentation.
Names
Howard University
Mico College (Kingston, Jamaica)
United States. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Buddoo, Carrington Lloyd
Marley, Bob
Thomas, Clarence, 1948-
Collection Creator
Smithsonian Institution. Anacostia Community Museum
Place
Jamaica
Washington (D.C.)
United States
Topic
Jamaican Americans
Rastafari movement
Manners and customs
Education
Seventh-Day Adventists
Imperialism
Independence
Emigration and immigration
Discrimination
Social history
Taxicab drivers
Discipline of children
Gangs
Interviews
Culture
Jamaicans
Afro-Jamaican
See more items in
Black Mosaic: Community, Race, and Ethnicity among Black Immigrants in Washington, D. C. Exhibition Records
Black Mosaic: Community, Race, and Ethnicity among Black Immigrants in Washington, D. C. Exhibition Records / Series 3: Oral History Interviews
Sponsor
Funding for partial processing of the collection was supported by a grant from the Smithsonian Institution's Collections Care and Preservation Fund (CCPF).
Extent
2 Digital files
1 Sound cassette
Date
1993 January 30
Archival Repository
Anacostia Community Museum Archives
Type
Archival materials
Digital files
Sound cassettes
Citation
Black Mosaic: Community, Race, and Ethnicity among Black Immigrants in Washington, D. C. exhibition records, Anacostia Community Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
Collection Rights
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Note
The total playing time of interview recording is approximately 1 hour and 35 minutes.
Scope and Contents
Carrington Lloyd Buddoo, known as Lloyd Buddoo, talked extensively about Jamaica, including the country's history, living and working conditions, education, government, geography, growing up under the British colonial system, and how things changed after independence. Buddoo spoke in detail about his parents and siblings, the disciplinarian in the family, living and growing up in rural Jamaica and the tight knit community, the fruits and vegetables grown by his family, his parents' work and skills, the schools and colleges he attended, his family's religious traditions as Seventh Day Adventists, family traditions, and extended family history, including the origin of his last name "Buddoo" and his grandfather's East Indian traditions. Buddoo also talked about teaching in Jamaica, immigrating and sponsoring relatives to come to the United States, where he worked when he arrived in the United States, applying to and attending Howard University, life in Jamaica versus life in the United States, working as a taxicab driver, his wife and children, why he decided to go to law school, working for Clarence Thomas at Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, his thoughts about Jamaican culture and the culture's influence on other communities, Rastafarianism, his music interests including Bob Marley, holiday celebrations, importance of Jamaican organizations, his thoughts on Jamaican posses, immigration law and discrimination, and disciplining his children. Carrington Lloyd Buddoo was interviewed on January 30, 1993. Interview is in English. Digital audio files include white noise and static; interviewee can be heard clearly for the most part.
Collection Restrictions
Use of the materials requires an appointment. Please contact the archivist to make an appointment: ACMarchives@si.edu.
Related link
Record ID
ebl-1712088000981-1712088003349-0
Metadata Usage
CC0
GUID
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/qa7a4f2e8ec-1d1b-412b-abd9-795788e8ff4d

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  • Black Mosaic: Community, Race, and Ethnicity among Black Immigrants in Washington, D. C. Exhibition Records

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