Reminiscences of Benjamin Ross : oral history, 2002-2003.

Biographical Note

Disaster Relief Coordinator, New York Immigrant Coalition.

Scope and Contents

Born Boston, MA; education: B.A. University of Rochester 1996; career: grassroots community development work, Safe Horizon, New York Immigrant Coalition; 9/11: witnessing smoke from 60th Street and Lexington Avenue, eagerness to help Spanish speakers; post-9/11: helping immigrants, role of 9/11 Fund; concern for well-rounded immigrant assistance; focus on mental health; discussion of rebuilding of ground zero; political reflections.

Subjects

• Interviews.
• Leal, Alejandra, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Ross, Benjamin--Interviews.
• Ruiz, Yesenia, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001--Personal narratives.
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.

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