Oral History Of Generational Report On My Mother 's Life

I chose to interview my grandmother, Maryann Metzger. I chose her because she is probably one of the strongest people I know. I wanted to learn more about her childhood. After talking with her I realized that she may not remember a lot about women’s rights at that time but she does remember segregation. Through this I learned many things that I didn’t know before.

I interviewed a beautiful and courageous woman, of African descent. Born and raised in Monrovia, Liberia on May 20, 1969. In addition, she has one biological brother and three step siblings. Currently she resides in Loganville, Georgia, where she lives with her two children. By the same token, she and her husband been married for twenty-one years to her loving high school sweetheart husband. Due to unfortunate circumstances, she lost her husband in the line of duty. Causing her to become a widow, continuing to survive life without her husband. When I conducted this interview, had one topic in mind that I wanted to learn more about her life as an immigrant and how did influence her life.

My interviewee's name is Paula Anderson-Worts. She was born in Jamaica back in the 1960’s. However, Paula along with her parents relocated to Florida when she was two years old for an improved life, and in search of the American dream. When Paula started school, she was inspired to become a teacher, doctor, and a fashion designer. Although, all throughout her life people told her she can’t become all those things, she has to select one. Even though this may be true, she still insisted on her dreams. In addition, “she thought it would be unique to follow in her mother’s footsteps”.

My interviewee is Frank Ruelas, he is currently 62, and he works at the US Postal. He’s a family friend and basically my step-dad. He has many siblings so growing up his house was always full. He was born in 1954 about 7 years after it began. He grew up and lived in Fort Worth, TX, during it.

Mrs. Anderson was excited to be interviewed and was sorry to see our time together come to completion. She is 79 years old and lives alone in a small house in Saco, Maine. She owns the two houses directly beside her that she rents to her daughter, son, and their families. She is a strong independent type who has traveled a fair amount in her lifetime. I will interview Mrs. Anderson about her life and divide the paper into three sections.

I was delighted and honored to carry out an interview with my 89 year old grandmother Marie Charles. It did not take much of an effort to establish a rapport with my interviewee; she was more than willing to open up to whomever that was willing to lend an open ear. Marie felt comfortable to share her life experiences with me, during the interview. Her demeanor exemplified one who is full of grace and compassionate towards others. Marie emigrated from Haiti and has been living in the United States for 45 years. She enjoyed her life experiences both within the states and in her native country of Haiti.

This week’s reading comes from an NPR interview of Nikole Hannah-Jones entitled “How the Systemic Segregation of Schools is Maintained by ‘Individual Choices”, in which they talk about recent segregation about schools and why little is being done to change it. Hannah-Jones discusses life in a gentrified area and their decision to send their daughter to their neighborhood school even though it’s student population was minority driven and there were categorized as a low-performing school. The affluent white school farther away and the white kids were then forced to go to the minority school, which illustrated the use of institutional racism by individuals who were thought to be progressive. So not only does gentrification lead to violent racial

For this interview assignment, I interviewed my close friend Franki’s mother, Deborah. Deborah is thirty-nine years old and she lives with her two children, Franki and Jessica, and with her husband Frank. The three topics I decided to interview Deborah on were political beliefs, philosophy of leisure time and the goals in life.

For the interview, my subject was Virginia McFadden. She is a 79 years old woman and a retired teacher. She is married to Kevin McFadden. I chose Mrs. McFadden because I see her every week at church. I didn’t know much about her before the interview. The interview was an opportunity to do so.

The interview with my mother about the 1960’s I chose because she worked and remembered the 1960’s and would occasionally talk about that time. This conference took place at home with my mother Dr. Mary T. Kincaid who is 72 plus years old. My mother operated in the accounting department at that time, and approximately in 1968 received a promotion to the position of controller. She also taught part time at a college in Chicago starting in the 1970’s. Before the interview commenced, my mother was kind of nervous. But soon relaxed when I explain it would not keep her too long.

Everyone has a different background to their early lives. We all have went through events that other people have never even thought about going through whether it being a positive or negative circumstance. However, we all have went through the same historical timeline. By this I mean that people living through the same decades have went through the same historical events such as with wars, precedencies, and all the signings between countries throughout the world. As I thought about who I wanted to interview for my history report, I concluded that I wanted to learn more about my mom when she was the same age as me. My interviewee that I chose was my mom, Lora Phelps, as she lived through the late 1980’s between the ages of 18-20. I wanted

Interviewer: Hello Mrs. Bishop. Can we start the interview off with a reflection of your childhood?

The setting of this interview is in the living room of my parent’s house. This interview with my mother took place

When she was 8 years old, she and her family moved into a white neighborhood, where they experienced violence and antagonism

I interviewed my mother. Although my first initiative was to interview someone one else, circumstances changed my original plan. Which in turn, allowed me to have a personable conversation with my mother. My mom is fifty four years old. She had her first child at sixteen and her last at twenty seven. Overall, she has six children in total. Having a baby during adolescences is difficult for anyone. Actually having to sit down and converse about my mother’s past experiences as a parent, was difficult for her. She chose to reminisce about her experiences with her second child. I am going to take you on a journey between a mother and her son.