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Eighty-nine-year-old Babs Brown is, in her own words, a "Jamaican American" who describes herself as "part of the American dream".

In the 1940s, her family was one of the first black families to buy a house in Oak Bluffs on Martha鈥檚 Vineyard.

Her parents were born in Jamaica but came as young people to the United States. Her father went to medical school, established himself in Harlem, built a home in the North Bronx and became extremely successful.

Babs Brown recalls, "Look at me, I'm nearly 90-years-old. I came from a family that believed in the American dream. I'm educated, my daughter is educated, my sisters are educated, their children are educated and their grandchildren. We've lived a very comfortable life."

"And it started off very poor because my family were immigrants. I don't think there's a country like this in the world. This is a land of dreams, and I have been a part of it and I鈥檓 grateful."