Anti-Drug Patrols 1: The Call

by Siraj Wahhaj

Siraj Wahhaj describes what motivated him to lead a local anti-drug campaign in Bedford-Stuyvesant in the late 1980s.

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Wahhaj, Siraj, Excerpt from oral history interview conducted by Zaheer Ali, February 19, 2018, Muslims in Brooklyn oral histories, 2018.006.06; Brooklyn Historical Society.

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