When the youngest Monk began skipping classes during his senior year at Stuyvesant High School - and eventually left altogether - it was Barbara Monk who encouraged him to take that leap of faith.Ī few years earlier, she had also supported Thelonious Jr.'s decision to follow a Christian evangelist, a woman whose name was never known to the family (and whose precise religious affiliation was just as hard to pin down), on a barnstorming tour of Midwestern towns for nearly two years.Īs Kelley recounts in his book, Monk's travels through Kansas and other states is the most mysterious and undocumented time in Monk's life. Barbara Monk cleaned city offices to support her kids. eventually returned to Carolina, and Monk's mother and sister raised the family. The family moved to New York City to escape the farm life they had known in North Carolina.
The photo ID of Barbara Monk, Thelonious Monk's mother, shows that she was employed by the City of New York to clean public offices.įirst, there's his mother, Barbara Monk, who moved to New York City with Thelonious Monk Sr., and their three children: Thomas, the eldest his sister Marion, and Thelonious Jr., the youngest child.
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