LineSpeakerSt TimeContentEn Time
1DCB_int_010.2513And when is your birthday?1.4543
2DCB_se2_ag4_f_012.5361Four two fifty-seven.3.8884
3DCB_int_015.8503And where were you born?6.6990
4DCB_se2_ag4_f_017.3285DC General Hospital, Washington DC, District of Columbia.11.8596
5DCB_int_0111.9467And what neighborhood did you grow up in?13.5243
6DCB_se2_ag4_f_0114.1584Well I grew up in15.7194
8 15.9805a couple of neighborhoods. The first neighborhood that I18.8295 
10 19.5523um-19.9440 
12 20.9045w- w-21.1983 
14 21.9059Around um,23.0063 
16 23.7011Fifth and P.24.4518 
18 25.2725Um,25.8554 
20 26.1538Shaw area.27.0724 
22 27.3382Um,27.6739 
24 28.6566went to /RD-SCHOOL-5/ Elementary School,30.5358 
26 31.3658and then attend-32.1818 
28 32.4662I attended the original /RD-SCHOOL-1/ Junior High School35.0390 
30 35.4773on um, Seventh and /RD-ADDRESS-2/ Avenue, which is now38.4802 
32 38.9931um, a senior citizen home. And they41.0576 
34 41.3467built a new Shaw42.4285 
36 43.0160uh, further down.44.1211 
37DCB_int_0145.1097Okay, and so46.2055
39 47.2068this was North48.1954 
41 48.6057West.49.3191 
42DCB_se2_ag4_f_0149.2725This is [Northwest.]50.5688
43DCB_int_0150.1724[Okay.]50.5734
44DCB_se2_ag4_f_0150.8019Mm-hm.51.2402
45DCB_int_0151.2589Shaw is- I'm still tryna get that neighborhood cause I don't know that neighborhood [/very well/.]55.0487
46DCB_se2_ag4_f_0154.4005[Shaw area is the] Howard U- [near] Howard University, um,57.6319
47DCB_int_0155.7341[/?/]55.9906
48DCB_se2_ag4_f_0158.3582LeDroit Park area.59.7897
50 60.3259Yeah.60.6290 
51DCB_int_0161.1792And um, have you lived in other places outside of64.2836
53 64.4794DC?64.8385 
54DCB_se2_ag4_f_0164.9131I have never lived in any place else67.6036
56 67.7434other than the District of Columbia.69.1656 
57DCB_int_0169.4734Mm!69.9618
59 70.0877That is great. We don't have-71.6918 
60DCB_se2_ag4_f_0172.1674A true Washingtonian?73.2127
61DCB_int_0173.2025We have some,74.4382
62 74.5595but usually like- The one I interviewed the other day, he had lived in78.2467
64 78.8342um-79.2911 
66 79.4264He lived in DC all his life for- except like three years, he lived in Baltimore.82.5307 
68 82.9224Or you know, so most people-84.4658 
70 84.7596I had one lady, she lived all her life, and then she86.8299 
72 87.0118left to go to college and she-88.1717 
74 88.3628After six months, she came back and then she went to UDC. So90.9974 
76 91.8134e- It's-92.6107 
78 92.8859I've gotten some luck- I've gotten lucky with some, but sometimes you don't see a lot that96.7829 
80 96.9134done everything-97.9579 
81DCB_se2_ag4_f_0198.1818Right here.98.7273
82DCB_int_0198.7879Mm-hm.99.1330
83DCB_se2_ag4_f_0199.1050Yeah.99.5293
84 99.7858Yeah, yeah. This is home. Um,102.1738
86 103.3751my mom is not originally from DC, but my dad [is.]106.2480 
87DCB_int_01106.0271[Okay], where's- Okay, that's a good- Where's mom from?107.9156
88DCB_se2_ag4_f_01108.1394My mother is from Augusta, Georgia.109.6595
89DCB_int_01110.0139Oh!110.6714
91 110.7786I lived there for a few months.112.1670 
92DCB_se2_ag4_f_01112.5167Uh-huh.113.0343
93DCB_int_01113.5845And dad is from DC?114.7223
94DCB_se2_ag4_f_01114.8622My father's from DC. My mother came to DC when she was thirteen and never went back.119.5099
95DCB_int_01120.1487So she's kind of from DC.121.3797
96DCB_se2_ag4_f_01121.5103No. She is not [kind of- That's not considered] [DC.]124.3873
97DCB_int_01122.4056[She's not- <laugh> Do-]123.9210
99 124.2183[That's] not from [DC?]125.1555 
100DCB_se2_ag4_f_01124.9783[No.] You're not- When you not- You [have got] to-126.9974
101DCB_int_01126.2746[You didn't-]126.5591
102DCB_se2_ag4_f_01127.3891Well at one time when I was coming up, m-129.4221
104 129.5666around the time, they would say131.0156 
106 131.3420you would have to have been at least133.5010 
108 133.8787minimum the second generation, if not the third.136.4514 
109DCB_int_01137.0669Before you could say you were from [DC?]138.5684
110DCB_se2_ag4_f_01138.3119[Mm-hm.]138.7642
111DCB_int_01138.7736Wow.139.0766
113 139.3424And what did your m-139.8134 
115 139.9113fath- father do?140.6807 
116DCB_se2_ag4_f_01141.1283My father142.3115
118 142.4421uh,142.9177 
120 143.1835I think initially144.4845 
122 144.7223uh, what I recall most- I didn't146.4615 
124 146.7366live with my dad.147.5853 
126 147.7858My mom and dad were not married.149.3887 
128 149.8317Uh, my father remarried and left DC,151.9393 
130 152.3869but what I recall- What I think he did was155.3887 
132 157.0813nothing important, uh, um, that they would c- consider- It was an honest living.161.2161 
134 161.6925Um, I think he worked163.3152 
136 165.5009for a laundry166.3169 
138 166.7972[or something], driving a truck or something.168.7510 
139DCB_int_01166.8718[Hm.]167.1330
140DCB_se2_ag4_f_01169.3432And I think um, he was fortunate enough to172.4242
142 173.0117um, get a government job,174.6624 
144 175.3199and he lived in New York the rest of his life.177.9579 
145DCB_int_01178.3309Gotcha. And where- What about mom?179.7391
146DCB_se2_ag4_f_01180.0422My mom stayed here in DC until,182.3224
148 182.5287you know, /um, her demise/.183.9929 
149DCB_int_01183.9885And what did she do?184.6926
150DCB_se2_ag4_f_01185.0097My mom did-185.8910
152 186.7432She was The Help.187.7643 
153DCB_int_01188.0581She-188.3192
154DCB_se2_ag4_f_01189.0979My mom was The Help.190.2263
156 190.7346I hate that movie <laugh> cause that remind me so much of my mother194.1143 
158 194.4311and [so] much pain she endured.196.4641 
159DCB_int_01194.5477[/Mm/.]194.7762
160DCB_se2_ag4_f_01196.8885Uh, she cleaned up the- Cleared people's homes.199.5918
161DCB_int_01200.6689And how-201.0280
163 201.3730Now because that was- So that was like the [forties and] fifti- [That was-]205.4006 
164DCB_se2_ag4_f_01204.0437[That was in-]204.5846
166 205.0183[That was the] [fifties.] That was definitely the fifties. I was born in fifty seven. She did it up until-210.3153 
167DCB_int_01205.6105[fifties.]206.1467
168DCB_se2_ag4_f_01210.6219I wanna say she did it up until212.4218
170 212.7715early sixties, and then she did214.7253 
172 215.2522always sometime type of maintenance work.217.2887 
174 217.6757Um, she went from cleaning people's homes to220.7159 
176 221.1263cleaning um, buildings.223.1302 
178 223.2374You know, um,224.2073 
180 224.7109apartment buildings where people would leave out and-227.2195 
182 227.6019and so sh-228.1708 
184 228.3794a group of people would come in and clean it but it was owned by a company.231.5595 
185DCB_int_01232.0352So,232.4362
187 233.0657do you- do you remember your mom either telling you a lot of stories? Or do you remember like,237.1352 
189 237.3544seeing your mom, especially because racial tensions in the city239.9691 
190DCB_se2_ag4_f_01240.0577[Mm-hm.]240.4447
191DCB_int_01240.2722[at] that point- even now,241.3447
192 241.6431but I think242.0348
194 242.4125especially as we are getting to the Civil Rights era,245.0050 
196 245.6112how do you feel like, with her being247.7457 
198 247.9322The Help as you-248.6083 
200 248.7762as you said249.4710 
202 249.8626that-250.0771 
203DCB_se2_ag4_f_01250.1564I had a lot of resentment,251.4294
205 251.6718a lot- Cause they didn't treat her right.253.3866 
207 253.5079They didn't treat her well. Um,255.2285 
209 255.3870you know, they would give her256.6973 
211 257.2662food that they, you know258.6732 
213 259.8856didn't wanna waste, what they called not wanting to waste, and would bring home.263.4900 
215 264.1241And um,265.5778 
217 267.1306you know, I grew up in the six- You know, I came up269.3874 
219 269.8910when um, the M-271.1255 
221 271.3120the March on Washington happened, and we lived at Fifth and P.274.3382 
223 275.0377And I can remember my mother- When Martin was killed, my mother was saying,278.5244 
225 279.3730I just got to be there. I just -281.0983 
227 281.6159/<clap>/281.8770 
229 282.0122I don't think she had any political283.7317 
231 284.2213/<clap>/284.4218 
233 285.5502you know um,286.3616 
235 286.9025s- stake in anything. I think she just felt she needed to be there. She took it very hard,291.2984 
237 291.7927I can remember.292.6134 
239 293.0843Um,293.6066 
241 294.1463we- She took her children down to the Martin uh- to the monument.297.8859 
243 298.4502We walked,299.1589 
245 299.6905you know. That's how close we were, really.301.4006 
247 301.7550Cause when you live on Fifth and P,303.1492 
249 303.5409it's nothing keeping you from anything but New York Avenue, so [we walked] a lot.307.5312 
250DCB_int_01306.5566[Mm-hm.]307.0929
251DCB_se2_ag4_f_01307.9788So often as a child growing up,309.9186
253 310.3942we played,311.1263 
255 311.2289walked downtown and312.7478 
257 313.0136walked up and down the monument steps314.8321 
259 315.1912on a number of occasions. Uh, that was what we did with our pass time.318.3573 
261 318.8457We would get up in the morning, do our chores, and321.0653 
263 322.0771<clap> she never said, where you going? Whatchu gonna do? Just stay out of trouble.325.2654 
264DCB_int_01325.7224And that was your neighborhood-327.0000
266 327.4430Think about back then. Were you-329.3501 
268 329.8584First of all, are you a only child or do you have siblings?331.6804 
269DCB_se2_ag4_f_01331.6244I have a sibling. I have two s-333.1585
270 333.2891ts- two deceased siblings. I have an older sister who's deceased,336.3561
272 336.8691and I have a younger brother who's deceased. So I'm what they call the middle [child, the knee] baby. [But my mo-]341.9411 
273DCB_int_01340.6786[Mm.]341.0190
275 341.5168[The knee] baby.342.3188 
276DCB_se2_ag4_f_01342.3002The knee baby, that's what they called you. The knee baby. So I was the one that kind of345.9979
277 346.2916balanced everything out. Um,348.5718
279 349.4146I was the one that-350.5057 
281 351.4849Not knowing then,352.7579 
283 352.9398um,353.3314 
285 354.3794my mother always said had the level head,356.2819 
287 356.5524you [know, more] or less, so.358.1098 
288DCB_int_01356.8135[Mm.]357.1865
289DCB_se2_ag4_f_01358.5574Um, I wasn't shy359.8304
291 360.1323um, or anything like that. I just did it.362.3519 
292DCB_int_01362.8042So in your neighborhood- Okay, so did y'all play together?364.8465
294 364.9351Were [y'all close in age] enough that y'all played together, and [were there a lot of other kids?]368.8554 
295DCB_se2_ag4_f_01365.0517[Oh, y-]365.8490
297 367.1675[Yeah, we played when we were younger.] We played together- younger. We played with the neighborhood kids til the street lights came [on.]373.2840 
298DCB_int_01373.0835[Mm.]373.2747
299DCB_se2_ag4_f_01373.7643Um, [/unintelligible/-]374.9674
300DCB_int_01374.2586[I hear that a lot.]374.9301
301DCB_se2_ag4_f_01375.1539Right.375.4523
303 375.6435Growing up on- going to /RD-NAME-5/ Elementary School for me,378.6965 
305 379.0416I only had to cross one street,380.3845 
307 380.7529so my mother never had to walk us to school. She'd just say, go to school.384.2221 
309 384.9064And so there was a corner store where we bought our penny candy.387.8999 
311 388.5434And we played in neighborhood389.8817 
313 390.0122from sun up to sun down, and391.4566 
315 391.5545you know, we went out of the neighborhood.393.0420 
317 393.4756We were never afraid.394.9211 
319 395.3408Uh, back then it was um-396.8038 
321 397.3633at um-398.0907 
323 398.6829Between O and P and Seventh Street,400.7672 
325 401.1123was the Kennedy Playground,402.6091 
327 403.2281and it was named after the Kennedys. And we played on that playground,406.7859 
329 407.0190and we-407.6812 
331 408.1836The um,408.7478 
333 409.5452<ts>409.6617 
335 409.7970fire department would come d- around, and cut the water on when it was real hot,413.2335 
337 413.6205so we played in the water.414.7570 
338DCB_int_01414.9483Mm.415.1815
340 415.7833/I'm not sure what that is/416.9767 
341DCB_se2_ag4_f_01416.9720Uh, we played in the water. Um,419.1403
342 420.1008um,420.4878
344 421.7550all the time. We just played outside all the time.424.0771 
345DCB_int_01424.3289Do you remember a time when425.9470
347 426.1650you felt like the neighborhood shifted?427.9602 
349 428.2493Or had you moved out by then?429.8673 
350DCB_se2_ag4_f_01430.5705<ts> I didn't really start to really feel that until I was um,436.2870
352 436.9817and adult.437.4702 
354 437.6054I never saw that. I mean, everybody had their own neighborhood.440.5710 
356 441.0093We didn't have- You know it was always a sprinkle443.3501 
358 444.0530of- of- of white people living in- somewhere, but they didn't447.5222 
360 448.0631mingle,448.5807 
362 448.7299intermingle with us. They didn't engage with us. Um,451.7177 
364 452.2166they weren't rude or anything. Um, it's just like, they said, you know, you didn't bother them. They didn't bother [us.]457.2607 
365DCB_int_01456.4896[Bother you. Mm-hm.]457.3866
366DCB_se2_ag4_f_01457.8529Um, of course you had white teachers back then.460.3662
368 460.9351Um,461.4573 
370 462.3142I didn't have white teachers in elementary school. I had white teachers in high school. I went to c- c-466.7253 
372 467.1776/RD-SCHOOL-3/ High School.468.3200 
373DCB_int_01468.3515Mm-hm.468.7478
374DCB_se2_ag4_f_01469.1255And um,470.4078
376 470.9813as a matter of fact,471.9839 
378 472.1424one of the teachers who influenced me the most was white. Her name was Miss /RD-NAME-3/.475.7317 
379DCB_int_01476.0907And how did- What did- What did she do?477.4476
380DCB_se2_ag4_f_01477.7740She was a hippie.478.5481
382 479.0050She drove a- She /wolk/- She drove a Volkswagen bus,481.8529 
384 482.4964and see, by the time I got to high school,484.4129 
386 485.4154I was married486.1929 
388 487.0276with two children.487.8110 
389DCB_int_01488.6176Oh!488.7948
391 489.0420Okay, we're gonna have to back up. [/inaudible/ That was a lot of] jump.492.6184 
392DCB_se2_ag4_f_01490.0678[I know. I know- I was getting ready to say, you might wanna back-]492.1894
393 492.7059Right.493.1348
395 493.3633But it's not really because it's-495.4243 
397 495.5549it's a jump, but listen. Okay.497.3734 
399 497.5040Let me tell you my story. My story consist of499.8669 
401 500.2353there were three children. My mother was a single mother.502.6973 
403 503.4667Um, all three of us had three different fathers.505.9928 
405 506.7715Um,507.4570 
407 508.5388we moved,509.3175 
409 509.6019you know, um-510.6639 
411 511.3913We never lived in public housing.513.1819 
413 513.7834Um, we always kind of515.3967 
415 516.0624were able to maintain.517.5452 
417 517.9648My stepfather worked for /RD-WORK-5/.520.5807 
419 520.9817We were the first kids in the neighborhood to have a television,523.5452 
421 523.9508walkie talkies and things like that.525.6481 
423 525.8906As a matter of fact, we was one of the first to have a telephone,528.0635 
425 529.4985you know. And530.7762 
427 531.0513so we lived /din/- lived downtown DC for a long time.534.9297 
429 535.4799Um,536.0581 
431 536.8601as I got to junior high school,538.8698 
433 539.3641things started to change for me.540.9950 
435 541.7457Um,542.3239 
437 542.7062the family dynamic started to changed.544.8652 
439 545.5413And um,546.7991 
441 547.7084you tryna come into who you are.549.2471 
443 549.3637Who [are y- Who] am I? What am I? What am I gonna do? What am I gonna be?552.7245 
444DCB_int_01549.7134[Hm.]549.9186
445DCB_se2_ag4_f_01553.3680But a lot of stuff was going on. The riots came and556.4082
447 556.8745people were out of work and um,559.2607 
449 560.2026there was no vision.561.1306 
451 562.0212It was nobody telling you that you could go to college. There was nobody telling you566.0208 
453 566.5710um, that you could do more than what you were doing.568.7393 
455 569.4107There were a lot of people telling you, [you know-]571.8389 
456DCB_int_01571.1955[<fumbling with the mic> I'm just gonna unclip this.] I think it will be easier for you.]573.5641
457DCB_se2_ag4_f_01573.5641Okay.574.1774
458DCB_int_01574.5613That way you don't have to-575.4688
459DCB_se2_ag4_f_01576.1370[I think there were a lot of]577.1162
461 578.0348folks578.4638 
463 578.6410who579.1679 
465 580.3662were just making it.581.2009 
467 581.8619You know, um, a lot of people lost their jobs.584.6922 
469 585.4336The neighbors helped each other,586.9911 
471 587.1170you know. Nobody went hungry.588.6825 
472DCB_int_01588.8364Mm-hm.589.2654
473DCB_se2_ag4_f_01589.3260Um, nobody590.5943
475 591.0839f- furniture and stuff was set outdoors, you know, because people took it in.594.9203 
477 595.2234People cared about people then.596.5943 
479 597.1259You know, it wasn't a shame for that598.7486 
481 598.8745to happen.599.4900 
482DCB_int_01599.7779Right.600.1416
483DCB_se2_ag4_f_01600.4074Um,601.0929
485 602.2446and602.8881 
487 603.0886somehow, I became604.8791 
489 606.5240a major607.4566 
491 607.6711role in my family, somehow.609.6901 
493 610.2263My mom611.0517 
495 611.8537started drinking. She had a613.4752 
497 614.5337tumultuous relationship with my fath- stepfather.617.6532 
499 618.2162Um, as children, you know, you had a place. You didn't inter- You know, you didn't intervene.622.1284 
501 622.9164And so with that going on, you kind of get lost in the shuffle I think.626.3285 
503 626.9580And in627.5036 
505 627.8906getting lost,628.8978 
507 629.6625I found my630.4552 
509 631.5172partner,631.9788 
511 632.5477which was633.3497 
513 634.1750young man I married.635.2382 
515 635.4061He was my first love and only love.637.2747 
517 637.6151We were kids.638.4265 
519 638.7016I was thirteen when I met him.640.0585 
521 640.5900We were in junior high school, and642.0962 
523 642.4634we had moved from Fifth Street644.0954 
525 644.5617to Sixteenth Street. Oh, we were moving up [then.]647.0470 
526DCB_int_01646.6460[Mm.]647.3781
527DCB_se2_ag4_f_01647.5040We lived at /RD-ADDRESS-8/,649.9742
529 650.2399and at that point,651.2331 
531 651.5549they had built a brand new /RD-SCHOOL-2/ Junior High School.654.3480 
533 654.8038So I transferred from /RD-SCHOOL-1/ Junior High going to /RD-SCHOOL-2/.657.5829 
535 659.4014And660.0216 
537 660.2069going to /RD-SCHOOL-2/, I met my husband. He was a basketball player,663.6015 
539 663.8486you know, and664.7579 
541 665.2708other things were going on, and I realized I wanted to do other things, and668.7249 
543 669.3684um,669.8859 
545 670.1564my mother was kind of going through something at that time.672.9250 
547 673.6617Um, I'm not sure how much you wanna know.675.3171 
548DCB_int_01675.9186You tell- I'm-676.7159
550 676.8931I'm [enjoying] it.677.7418 
551DCB_se2_ag4_f_01677.1822[Oh.]677.5972
552DCB_int_01678.0868[So as much] as you wanna share.679.5498
553DCB_se2_ag4_f_01678.0903[Oh.]678.5333
554 679.6664Okay, so,680.6223
556 681.1492um,681.6668 
558 682.7159we all th-683.1543 
560 683.3454all three of us kind of went our- We k- started685.4239 
562 685.6757kind of being on our own a lot687.1271 
564 687.2285when we became teenagers because689.3874 
566 689.9843my mother was in another world. She became an alcoholic.692.7622 
567DCB_int_01692.8321Mm-hm.693.1166
568DCB_se2_ag4_f_01693.6342And so we were kind of raising ourselves to a- some degree- Not really, she paid o-697.9788
570 698.1234She made- We always had food to eat.699.6715 
572 699.7834We never went without food.700.9444 
574 701.2429We never went without a roof over our head.702.9856 
576 703.5778Um, and we never went without clothes on our back.705.9093 
578 706.7393They may not have been the latest fashions, but we709.1255 
580 709.4473were never without food.710.8974 
582 711.3824Um, we always had a spiritual foundation.713.9703 
584 714.8597She wasn't the most religious person, but she certainly believed in Jesus Christ and believed in719.2941 
586 719.5506worshiping.720.3013 
588 721.6198And so722.6176 
590 723.0000from723.5968 
592 724.4968junior high school, my- that's when my life started.727.1721 
594 727.2701Um,727.7457 
596 727.9275by that time,728.6969 
598 729.0979my sister had already gotten pregnant.730.8605 
599DCB_int_01731.6765And how old is your older sister- How many years are y'all apart?733.9648
600DCB_se2_ag4_f_01734.3658My sister got pregnant when she was twelve. She's two years older.737.0237
601DCB_int_01737.4667Oh, gotcha. Okay.738.1614
602DCB_se2_ag4_f_01738.6033So, back then,739.8156
604 740.0115there was no abortions.741.3544 
606 741.4570[Back then], my mother came from the south, where744.3293 
607DCB_int_01741.5595[Mm.]741.9839
608DCB_se2_ag4_f_01745.0509it wasn't frowned upon. It wasn't a-747.2611
610 747.4430the best situation,748.6320 
612 749.1822but she didn't believe in the- giving a child up, and752.0197 
614 752.3985so my mother753.2285 
616 753.3824raised my754.0491 
618 754.5154niece755.1030 
620 755.2102almost like her own.756.3142 
622 756.8271You know, but for somehow, my sister just never got back on track.760.7253 
624 761.3314She never got back on track. She kind of just kind of floated through a little bit.765.3590 
626 766.0258Um,766.5900 
628 767.0703I- I guess I was the one who always769.2141 
630 769.8716wanted more than what we had, so consequently772.9724 
632 773.6485um,774.1941 
634 774.6173I was always looking for an out.775.9835 
635DCB_int_01776.2959Mm.776.5477
636DCB_se2_ag4_f_01776.5384Always looking for an out.777.9745
637 778.8045And so my stepfather and I did not get along781.2437
639 781.4078at all.781.8928 
641 782.3311I think we re- resented each other. I resented him because784.9458 
643 785.6639he didn't treat my mother nicely, and he resented me cause I had a mouth.789.3849 
645 789.8360I was pretty [mouthy.]790.8254 
646DCB_int_01790.4142[So you] was- gonna say something.791.6872
647DCB_se2_ag4_f_01791.7805I did,792.1721
649 792.7923as a child.793.5943 
651 793.8182I always said something. And he told my mother I was the-796.2837 
653 796.6287I was the meanest little child he had ever seen.798.6151 
655 798.9136And799.4125 
657 800.0047I think800.6062 
659 800.7915then801.5096 
661 801.9666me speaking up gave my mother some support. Cause she never spoke up.805.2539 
662DCB_int_01805.2726Mm.805.5151
663DCB_se2_ag4_f_01806.2145I spoke up.806.9967
665 807.0900I'm like,807.6915 
667 808.1671really?808.5821 
669 809.2302You- You don't have to take that from him. He's not your- you know,811.6456 
671 811.9347he doesn't-812.4383 
673 812.6575shouldn't treat you like that, and he's certainly not my father.814.9831 
675 815.7245<laugh> Whatever that meant as a child, but818.2052 
677 819.0247somehow I took on-820.7453 
679 820.9924become an adult821.8597 
681 821.9996right then and there at thirteen.823.4218 
683 824.4243I became an adult.825.3149 
685 826.2790Um, I met my children's father at that time, and829.6876 
687 830.2658I was in eight grade, and832.3163 
689 832.6381he was in833.5613 
691 833.6965ninth grade. And835.0068 
693 835.5897he had a lot going on in his l-837.1890 
695 838.2837dish-838.8013 
697 840.1069ruptive life. His mother841.9907 
699 842.4197was ill.843.2065 
701 843.7801His father844.6893 
703 845.9856m- moved on with his life with another family, and848.9326 
705 849.4863it was h-849.8640 
707 850.0412he and his siblings tryna make it.851.9950 
709 853.6689And so we kind of l-854.5316 
711 855.0060latched [on to each other.]856.5634 
712DCB_int_01855.5236[On to each other.]856.4482
713DCB_se2_ag4_f_01857.7665And um, became an item.859.6923
715 860.0093And we had861.8594 
717 862.4422/RD-NAME-3/ and /RD-NAME-2/ and863.8737 
719 864.4799we were married.865.5617 
721 866.4663And we tried to make the best of it.868.3909 
722DCB_int_01868.4096So how old were you when you got married?870.0556
723DCB_se2_ag4_f_01870.2188<laugh>870.9182
725 871.1827<ts>871.3061 
727 871.7447/RD-NAME-3/ was born in seventy two-873.7241 
729 873.8687nineteen sev- August tenth, nineteen seventy two. /RD-NAME-2/ was born in nineteen-877.5430 
731 878.2611uh, August tenth, nineteen seventy three, and we got married August tenth, nineteen seventy four.882.7877 
732DCB_int_01883.3612August tenth is an important date for you.884.7787
733DCB_se2_ag4_f_01885.0398Very [much so.]885.7428
734DCB_int_01885.3185[<laugh>]886.0785
735 886.4888And- But it's good. You can remember everything in one day.888.2654
736DCB_se2_ag4_f_01888.2607Oh, we [always did. Yeah.]889.8228
737DCB_int_01888.6478[You don't have to forget anything. It's all] one day.890.3590
738DCB_se2_ag4_f_01890.5129So, at that- at thirteen, I became an adult.893.1209
740 893.4960So I've been an adult since I was thirteen.895.4405 
741DCB_int_01895.8361So did you move out?896.7954
743 896.9960Or you still at [home? How- How did] that- I don't-899.3601 
744DCB_se2_ag4_f_01897.5742Oh, no. Of-898.7866
745 899.6352You would not believe this. Most people when I tell 'em, you know-902.6696
747 903.2012very few people this story,904.7586 
749 904.8892I was able to get an apartment.906.9735 
750DCB_int_01907.7802At thirteen.908.3863
751DCB_se2_ag4_f_01908.5670At thirteen.909.2851
753 909.9193The people never asked me how old I was.912.6751 
755 913.4165All they cared about is that I had the money. I worked at McDonald's.916.6141 
757 917.9477I worked at McDonald's919.5284 
759 919.7475on Ninth920.3665 
761 920.5018Street,921.1126 
763 921.4297Ninth and E.922.2224 
765 923.1829That was my first job,924.6005 
767 924.7963McDonald's on Ninth and E. They were building a new F-927.3084 
769 927.5090They were building the FBI building929.1503 
771 929.5047before that building was ever there on Ninth-931.6500 
773 931.7802Ninth and E.932.3817 
775 933.3178And I remember working there,935.1596 
777 935.2809<clears throat>935.6399 
779 936.4046and936.8849 
781 937.0155<clears throat>937.2719 
783 937.9667my husband was still in- We both were still in s-940.2923 
785 940.3902tryna- I was tryna get- still piece my education together.943.2206 
787 943.5564He was944.0366 
789 944.5251getting through. He was in ba- athlete, so946.5161 
791 947.0524you know, provisions were being made for him.949.1180 
793 949.6123But um,950.7407 
795 951.8354we952.3436 
797 952.4648got married. My mother signed the papers for us to get married.955.2393 
799 956.5997And we got married, and958.7120 
801 959.9057I kind of led the family961.4165 
803 961.5983after that.962.1905 
805 962.7676I became kind of the964.0778 
807 964.4742leader964.9171 
809 965.1596of the family at such a very young age.967.3185 
810DCB_int_01968.0133And so while you were- I'm gonna /just put this back in front of you. Just-/970.8342
811DCB_se2_ag4_f_01970.2737[Mm-hm.]970.5441
812DCB_int_01971.0114[/I think it's me/.]971.7108
813DCB_se2_ag4_f_01972.3766[Mm-hm.]972.6486
814DCB_int_01972.4746[But while] you were-973.2673
815 973.4258Okay. So,974.0273
817 974.6277you were thirte- so seventh, eighth grade.976.5628 
819 976.8892Then you went to-977.7425 
821 978.2880Did you go to high school then?979.9340 
822DCB_se2_ag4_f_01980.0320Well I had a child, so I was piecing my education back- But yes, I went to high- I was able to get into high school.986.6008
824 987.3084And-988.1338 
825DCB_int_01988.1571And still work, and [still be] [a mom]990.0782
826DCB_se2_ag4_f_01989.1083[Still-]989.4068
828 989.4953[Mm-hm.]990.1202 
829 990.2787[Mm-hm. /I-/]990.7963
830DCB_int_01990.5911[to two] [little] [ones.]991.9294
831DCB_se2_ag4_f_01991.0015[Mm-]991.3139
833 991.6904[Two] little ones. Two little ones. I was very-993.8540 
834 994.3902Two little ones. I think sometime when you're young, and don't know997.4398
836 997.7895all the things that are-998.8841 
838 999.5229You don't- You don't have to make all of these- You just do it.1001.8544 
839DCB_int_011002.0176[Mm-hm.]1002.4139
840DCB_se2_ag4_f_011002.1715[You don't] have all of these um, contemplating and1005.1732
841 1005.6302analyzing and all of that.1007.5513
843 1007.8870You just did it.1008.5585 
845 1008.6564You did what you had to do.1009.7149 
847 1009.8874Um, one of the things my mother took pride in was never being on welfare.1013.1270 
849 1013.8357She said, oh we don't do welfare. So1016.2733 
851 1016.4225you make your bed, you got to lie in it.1018.0312 
853 1018.8192So we both worked1019.7798 
855 1020.6611We both worked, and we put our money together.1023.4623 
857 1023.8167My first apartment cost me1025.8544 
859 1027.3931eighty five dollars a month.1028.7163 
861 1029.3504My second apartment cost me a hundred and forty four dollars.1032.3067 
863 1032.9035I can remember just as clear as it was- /Making-/1035.0007 
865 1035.3551We didn't have checking accounts, we used money orders.1037.7145 
867 1038.5818And um,1039.8967 
869 1041.5229I was- I've always wanted to go to school.1043.5140 
871 1043.8777I always had this dream of being something very very successful,1047.1826 
873 1047.9519so um, I went1049.5466 
875 1049.7378back to high school.1050.8196 
877 1051.9434And I r- my teacher was Miss [/RD-NAME-3/.]1054.3063 
879 1054.9078[/You want to cut it-/]1055.6259 
881 1056.9968[Cut that out (whispering).]1057.7522 
883 1057.9846[You can cut it out.]1058.7260 
884DCB_int_011059.3928That should be alright.1060.4734
885DCB_se2_ag4_f_011066.6180/Can you hear me?/1067.0236
886DCB_int_011067.5272Go ahead. No- Oh, it's fine.1068.9914
887DCB_se2_ag4_f_011069.2711Mkay (mouthful of food).1069.6349
889 1069.9659So,1070.4136 
891 1072.1703I went back in school.1073.4060 
893 1075.1592Here I am,1075.8027 
895 1077.5000sixteen years old, in school,1079.0842 
897 1080.2873with a husband,1081.0846 
898DCB_int_011081.8307Right.1082.1338
899DCB_se2_ag4_f_011082.6234two children.1083.2762
900DCB_int_011083.4860Baby children.1084.1097
901DCB_se2_ag4_f_011084.3941[Mm-hm.]1084.8698
902DCB_int_011084.6366[Not even] like,1085.3873
903 1085.5599toddler toddlers.1086.6323
904DCB_se2_ag4_f_011087.1732But I wanna be in school.1088.3576
906 1089.0757Even though I did all the behaviors of an adult,1091.3081 
908 1092.0868a part of me1092.8142 
910 1093.5463still tried to be1094.5488 
912 1094.8705in [school.]1095.3928 
913DCB_int_011094.9831[A kid.] Mm-hm.1095.8766
914DCB_se2_ag4_f_011096.6599I tried- I wanted to be- I wanted to be1098.3199
916 1098.5204all the things that all the other little girls were.1100.6094 
918 1102.7485Somehow didn't- You know, I missed that-1104.4551 
920 1105.1592/point at/- You know- And I tried-1106.4555 
922 1107.6119You know, I- um,1108.5434 
924 1108.7019I stayed active.1109.7837 
926 1111.0333Um,1111.5789 
928 1112.3436tried to get into some activities, it just didn't work out,1115.0050 
930 1115.3594couldn't do it all.1116.0681 
932 1117.6955But Miss /RD-NAME-3/,1119.0664 
934 1121.6764um, was my Literature teacher.1123.4717 
936 1125.4301And she and I connected,1126.6180 
938 1128.4971and1128.8935 
940 1130.3623she was the first person I ever told1131.8905 
942 1132.3242other than my children's father what my dreams were.1134.2826 
944 1137.2809It wasn't a black woman that told me I could make it.1139.1029 
946 1141.0800It was a white woman.1141.8867 
947DCB_int_011142.7260And this is in the early seventies. [In] [DC.]1145.1076
948DCB_se2_ag4_f_011144.2403[Mm-hm.]1144.5760
950 1145.0003[Mm-hm.]1145.3127 
951DCB_int_011146.4458Soon after [Martin Luther King.]1148.0499
952DCB_se2_ag4_f_011146.8935[Seventy two, seventy] three. [Mm-hm.]1148.7959
953DCB_int_011148.3576[Mm-hm.]1148.8192
954DCB_se2_ag4_f_011149.6073Mm-hm.1149.9197
956 1151.3640So,1151.7604 
958 1155.6259I1155.9663 
960 1156.3615got on the path of1157.7044 
962 1158.3339putting my life together to make it.1159.8493 
964 1161.6248You know, I wanted to go to school.1163.3500 
966 1164.1940I wanted to do all these things. Didn't know how I was gonna do it, didn't know where the money was gonna [come from.]1168.0409 
967DCB_int_011167.6992[fro- Mm-Hm.]1168.0409
968DCB_se2_ag4_f_011169.3314And tryna be somebody's wife. Can you imagine that?1171.6488
970 1172.6700So,1173.0477 
972 1173.1689in order t- f- you- And tryna pay attention to what was going on around me, in terms of1177.2525 
974 1177.7841politics and democracy and all of that,1180.0129 
976 1180.3895I wasn't paying attention to none of that.1181.8676 
978 1183.3131I mean [you knew it exi-]1184.2224 
979DCB_int_011183.6395[You had enough] going [on without] all-1186.0083
980DCB_se2_ag4_f_011184.9078[Uh-huh.]1185.2948
981 1186.6739You knew it existed.1187.6858
982DCB_int_011188.1008Right.1188.3199
983DCB_se2_ag4_f_011188.2733You knew racism existed. You knew you weren't well liked.1191.1550
984 1191.6632My neighborhoods were black.1192.8045
985DCB_int_011194.3153Hm.1194.5297
986DCB_se2_ag4_f_011196.2364I grew up Northwest.1197.3928
988 1198.4874Girard Street, Fourteenth Street.1200.3153 
989DCB_int_011200.3153Mm-hm.1200.7769
990DCB_se2_ag4_f_011201.4717You go there now, them peo- them- them- them- them not the people I grew up with.1204.6180
991DCB_int_011204.8651Mm-mm.1205.4573
992DCB_se2_ag4_f_011205.7930At all.1206.2780
993DCB_int_011206.8935And that neighborhood has changed so much. Fourteenth, Girard, that's-1209.6073
994DCB_se2_ag4_f_011209.7880[Ah! (frustrated)]1210.2169
995DCB_int_011209.9418[Columbia-] You in the heart of Columbia [Heights.]1211.8023
996DCB_se2_ag4_f_011211.2987[Ah!]1211.8303
997 1212.8328Oh, honey, yes.1214.0545
999 1214.2643[So-]1214.7260 
1000DCB_int_011214.2737[And so how] long- You- you stayed there for-1216.1668
1001 1216.7532That was /RD-NAME-3/'s childhood home [cause I remember] her telling me about-1219.7188
1002DCB_se2_ag4_f_011218.2453[Mm-hm.]1218.6790
1003 1220.6281That was their childhood home because I lived on Girard Street,1223.2801
1005 1224.5904then I always wanted more.1226.3529 
1006DCB_int_011226.6234Mm.1227.0477
1007DCB_se2_ag4_f_011227.6446So we moved to1228.7439
1009 1230.5810Fourteenth and /Upshur/.1231.6955 
1010DCB_int_011232.4928Mm-hm.1232.8472
1011DCB_se2_ag4_f_011233.8637And-1234.2589
1013 1235.3733with my husband and kids.1236.4924 
1015 1238.8845It was a nicer neighborhood and1240.3427 
1017 1241.1542nicer atmosphere.1242.2360 
1018DCB_int_011242.8049It was ten blocks?1243.9240
1020 1244.8146Fifteen bl-1245.4347 
1021DCB_se2_ag4_f_011245.7145[Maybe ten.]1246.2822
1022DCB_int_011245.8999[Not-]1246.0864
1023 1246.3895Ten.1246.6319
1024DCB_se2_ag4_f_011246.7858Wasn't that- [It wasn't all-]1247.6858
1025DCB_int_011247.1355[It wasn't that] [far.]1248.0495
1026DCB_se2_ag4_f_011247.8117[It was] one bus ride.1248.8468
1027DCB_int_011248.9401Mm-hm.1249.4437
1028DCB_se2_ag4_f_011250.8052Straight up [Fourteenth Street.]1251.9616
1029DCB_int_011251.4161[/Teenth/ Street. Mm-hm.]1252.2356
1030DCB_se2_ag4_f_011253.7231But1254.0215
1032 1255.5789as time went on,1256.6141 
1034 1257.1550we didn't have the /tools/ to be married, you know, to stay married.1260.1287 
1036 1261.7654We didn't have a skill set to kn- know how to1263.6212 
1038 1263.8637be husband and wife, neither one of us did.1265.5645 
1040 1267.2945So we didn't stay married long.1268.5301 
1042 1270.9164We didn't l- get a legal divorce, but we separated. /RD-NAME-3/ musta been about1274.9172 
1044 1276.8698I wanna say five.1277.9702 
1046 1278.9447/RD-NAME-2/ musta been about four.1280.2877 
1048 1282.2496I wasn't one of those women, like, lord, what am I gonna do?1284.8701 
1050 1285.5929You just did it.1286.2830 
1051DCB_int_011286.5115You just made it work.1287.2436
1052DCB_se2_ag4_f_011287.5420You just made it work.1288.3755
1053DCB_int_011289.0796So what did you do?1289.6578
1054DCB_se2_ag4_f_011290.9541<laugh>1291.2945
1055DCB_int_011291.3178Wait, did you fini- Wait. Before that, did you finish high school?1293.6352
1056DCB_se2_ag4_f_011294.8791I was still in high [school.]1295.9702
1057DCB_int_011295.7930[You] were still in high school at this point. Okay.1297.1639
1058DCB_se2_ag4_f_011297.1546Mm-hm.1297.5229
1059 1300.1796I got sick.1300.7252
1061 1304.3436Had a little bout with cancer.1305.8999 
1062DCB_int_011307.0003At this young age?1308.2826
1063DCB_se2_ag4_f_011308.7536Hm.1308.9401
1065 1310.3669I was eighteen,1311.1829 
1067 1311.6807turning nineteen.1312.5154 
1069 1315.2012Had my surgery1316.0918 
1071 1318.6786at Columbia Hospital for Women.1320.2127 
1073 1322.6514The n-1322.8472 
1075 1322.9451next day after surgery I went to work.1324.8791 
1077 1326.6603Somebody offered me a job at /RD-NAME-2/,1328.3463 
1079 1330.0817administration.1330.7345 
1081 1331.6951So!1332.0401 
1083 1332.8468I had time to recover.1334.0732 
1085 1334.3529<laugh>1334.6793 
1086DCB_int_011336.0071Like you just walked out a hospital and went to work?1337.6438
1087DCB_se2_ag4_f_011337.9842Next [day.]1338.7396
1088DCB_int_011338.2173[Pretty much?]1338.8608
1089DCB_se2_ag4_f_011338.8655Mm-hm.1339.0846
1090DCB_int_011339.0567Wow.1339.5602
1091DCB_se2_ag4_f_011342.5154They called me and said they had a job.1343.9655
1093 1347.2948I needed a job.1348.2496 
1095 1352.0125And I'm like /floored/ after that.1353.3881 
1097 1354.2123/I don't have no regrets/.1355.2008 
1099 1355.7371/It's just sore/.1356.4458 
1101 1358.7260From there,1359.2389 
1103 1361.6858I found ways to put /RD-NAME-3/ and /RD-NAME-2/ in private school.1364.2457 
1105 1368.1660I kind of mimicked the women that were around me that were successful.1371.2984 
1106DCB_int_011372.0089Mm.1372.4377
1107DCB_se2_ag4_f_011372.8464I didn't have any strategic plan or analyzed- All I knew is I wanted more.1377.1177
1109 1379.9189And so,1380.7489 
1111 1383.4068I didn't- I really didn't focus on1385.4293 
1113 1385.9749racism. I knew it exist. I knew it was there.1388.4882 
1114DCB_int_011391.4382But that was- Your focus was surviving and-1393.1779
1115DCB_se2_ag4_f_011393.1452[Mm.]1393.3504
1116DCB_int_011393.3131and making a life.1394.2690
1117DCB_se2_ag4_f_011394.4649That's my journey.1395.2296
1119 1395.4627I'm writing1396.1109 
1121 1397.1169a little book,1397.7091 
1123 1400.1198my journey of survival.1401.3042 
1125 1401.6014My life on survival.1402.5807 
1127 1403.9329I saw a therapist once, and she said,1405.7188 
1129 1406.2830you have been surviving all your life.1407.8905 
1131 1410.8795It's been on automatic.1411.9986 
1132DCB_int_011413.1130And not even thinking about it.1414.2647
1134 1414.8464Just doing what you got to do to make it.1416.3106 
1135DCB_se2_ag4_f_011420.3382There are people who I went to junior high school /with/ and everything who didn't make it out.1423.6815
1137 1425.3695They got caught up in drugs.1426.8464 
1139 1427.8303You know, we had1428.3059 
1141 1428.9354the big drug w-1429.8633 
1143 1430.0732wave, and then people were selling drugs and doing drugs.1433.3267 
1144DCB_int_011433.5039Especially in the neighborhood [in-]1434.8282
1145DCB_se2_ag4_f_011434.6790[Mm-hm.]1435.0986
1146DCB_int_011435.1079Fourteenth Street- [/That became a big-/]1437.0990
1147DCB_se2_ag4_f_011435.6768[Oh honey, that was a big] thing.1437.4907
1148DCB_int_011437.6154[Mm-hm.]1438.3382
1149DCB_se2_ag4_f_011437.6212[That was big.]1438.3427
1150 1438.4548You couldn't even come on the street,1439.6578
1152 1440.0448the police were there.1440.9121 
1154 1441.3411You couldn't even come in the neighborhood.1442.5441 
1156 1443.8766They gotten so bad.1444.8045 
1157DCB_int_011445.9236And when did you leave-1446.7303
1159 1446.8328When did you leave there?1447.7701 
1160DCB_se2_ag4_f_011448.1431I worked at a hospital center for tw-1449.5933
1162 1449.7553u- twenty year.1450.5760 
1164 1452.6183I left1453.3318 
1166 1453.7608the neighborhood in ninety six.1455.5280 
1167DCB_int_011456.3428So you stayed- That was a- That was a long time.1458.6929
1168DCB_se2_ag4_f_011458.7769No, it was before ninety six- It was ninety.1460.4882
1170 1460.8565I left the neighborhood in ninety.1462.0362 
1171DCB_int_011462.1517And then that's when you guys moved over to Southeast?1464.1147
1172DCB_se2_ag4_f_011464.1427I bought a home.1464.7489
1173DCB_int_011466.5861And tell me what that experience was like. [Cause now],1468.9817
1174DCB_se2_ag4_f_011468.0911[<laugh>]1468.5900
1175 1468.9910Hm.1469.1822
1176DCB_int_011469.1495you're- you-1469.6904
1177 1469.9282your kids are much older.1471.3364
1178DCB_se2_ag4_f_011471.6535Well, so I done survived, and I got 'em through s-1473.7145
1180 1473.8486to school,1474.4827 
1182 1476.0075never knowing from one month to the other how I was gonna pay for it.1478.8379 
1183DCB_int_011480.4175But it somehow got paid.1481.5086
1184DCB_se2_ag4_f_011481.5972Somehow got paid.1482.5717
1186 1483.9892I volunteered at the school.1485.4534 
1188 1489.8400/RD-SCHOOL-3/.1490.5907 
1190 1492.2636Whenever1492.8698 
1192 1493.0003they needed me to do something, I always made myself available.1495.7701 
1194 1495.9053I always w-1496.5068 
1196 1497.3321worked my hours so I could always be available to-1499.7231 
1198 1499.9282to go to school for what my kids- Cause my mother1502.0685 
1200 1502.4369never did that for us.1503.3741 
1201DCB_int_011505.4853And you wanted your kids to feel differently or have a different [experience.]1508.8892
1202DCB_se2_ag4_f_011508.1897[Mm-hm.]1508.6327
1203 1511.2148We didn't have a lot of love and affection.1512.6510
1205 1514.8332When I first saw my mother giving some love and affection,1516.8837 
1207 1519.1079it was to her grandchildren. And I was like, wow. [<laugh>]1523.5599 
1208DCB_int_011522.4827[Mm.]1523.3594
1209DCB_se2_ag4_f_011526.1851So she did-1526.8752
1211 1527.0897My mom really turned her life around.1528.9257 
1212DCB_int_011530.9727Once you guys got older.1532.0172
1213DCB_se2_ag4_f_011532.6747Mm-1532.8332
1215 1534.1843I didn't think she was going to, but she did.1535.8630 
1217 1537.5136And so, /RD-NAME-3/ and /RD-NAME-2/ went to /RD-SCHOOL-3/.1540.3708 
1219 1541.4060When /RD-SCHOOL-3/ shut down, /RD-NAME-2/ went to /RD-SCHOOL-8/.1544.5861 
1220DCB_int_011544.8705Mm-hm.1545.3088
1221DCB_se2_ag4_f_011548.5018People always said,1549.4110
1223 1552.1330how'd you do that?1553.0376 
1225 1554.4038How'd you get them in the school?1555.5463 
1227 1557.0384And I would say,1557.7192 
1229 1558.4408I don't know. It's just about the grades.1559.6718 
1231 1561.7561Ain't just about the grades- I ain't had no plan!1563.4441 
1232DCB_int_011563.8532Mm-hm.1564.2263
1233DCB_se2_ag4_f_011564.3755I ain't had no1564.9910
1235 1565.1402a-1565.3221 
1237 1565.8023sit down- no strategic plan like people do today.1568.1618 
1239 1568.7913From the time their children are born and,1570.5200 
1241 1571.0469they're gonna go to this school, and they gonna-1572.6836 
1243 1573.8307And I'm gonna put this kind of money away.1575.3368 
1245 1575.5793I ain't know what saving no-1576.4548 
1247 1576.8931I was always-1578.1614 
1249 1579.5323And then, to- tryna make them1580.8239 
1251 1580.9358well grounded, well rounded.1582.5713 
1253 1584.3432They were.1584.8328 
1255 1586.5534People didn't believe they were my children.1587.8637 
1256DCB_int_011589.2987Why?1589.6158
1257DCB_se2_ag4_f_011591.4530They was always well mannered.1592.7959
1259 1594.0351Smart.1594.6133 
1261 1597.9146I had a lot of people who cared about me coming up1600.2694 
1263 1600.6086cause they just couldn't believe this young person1602.7256 
1265 1603.8027was doing a job of the average1605.4954 
1267 1607.1775older [woman.]1607.8256 
1268DCB_int_011607.6298[Mm-] Mm-hm.1608.3106
1269DCB_se2_ag4_f_011609.1639So,1609.6115
1271 1611.0990I-1611.3834 
1273 1611.7880I surrounded myself around positive people,1613.9142 
1275 1615.5323positive women who were doing good things.1617.4068 
1276DCB_int_011618.0631And that was kind of-1618.8371
1278 1619.0889[You feel they filled] your-1620.4272 
1279DCB_se2_ag4_f_011619.0936[That was my /founda/-]1620.0448
1280DCB_int_011620.5671[the maternal] [role for] you?1622.0545
1281DCB_se2_ag4_f_011620.5810[Oh!]1620.9494
1283 1621.3877[Oh!]1621.8074 
1284 1622.2131Absolutely.1623.4347
1286 1624.9817Absolutely.1626.0541 
1288 1626.2453I don't think I could have made it.1627.3784 
1290 1628.3296They were the ones who took the responsibility even when I became out of order1632.4505 
1292 1632.9587at any point.1633.7701 
1294 1634.0079To help-1634.3250 
1296 1634.6560To put- Be able to put- Cause you know,1635.8684 
1298 1636.4268when you're on /??/- <clears throat>1637.6438 
1300 1638.0961survival mode,1638.9028 
1302 1640.3529you don't think what you're doing- anything you could do or say is wrong.1643.1775 
1303DCB_int_011643.8630Mm-hm.1644.3759
1304DCB_se2_ag4_f_011644.4645You just do it.1645.1266
1305DCB_int_011645.1313You just do.1645.7188
1306DCB_se2_ag4_f_011645.9986You know?1646.4136
1308 1646.7959But I do know I resented white people at the time.1649.2428 
1309DCB_int_011650.1474Why?1650.4551
1311 1650.5344Because you felt-1651.2059 
1313 1651.4483Even with Miss /RD-NAME-3/?1652.6514 
1315 1653.2948Was it Miss /RD-NAME-3/? Was that her name?1654.7205 
1316DCB_se2_ag4_f_011655.1169That's her [name.]1655.7510
1317DCB_int_011655.5599[Mm.]1655.8163
1318DCB_se2_ag4_f_011657.4064It just seemed like they had everything.1658.8286
1320 1661.5878I remember taking my kids to school. They went to school1664.0452 
1322 1666.1703um,1666.5294 
1324 1667.4293Connecticut Avenue and1668.7074 
1326 1669.2525/Woodley/ Road-1669.9473 
1328 1671.6679Whenever I was there I was like, why do they have it all?1674.0541 
1330 1675.0914Cause I didn't know anybody who had a lot of money,1676.6068 
1331DCB_int_011676.8808Mm-hm.1677.2305
1332DCB_se2_ag4_f_011677.7760you know, coming up.1678.4988
1334 1680.3406The well manicured lawns and-1682.4576 
1336 1685.4920Only time you saw us was1686.7463 
1338 1687.8514getting the trash or1689.1337 
1340 1690.3030[cleaning their house. Mm-hm.]1691.5853 
1341DCB_int_011690.3169[/Doing the manicuring of] the lawn.1691.9536
1342DCB_se2_ag4_f_011691.9023Mm-hm.1692.2894
1343 1692.4805Mm-hm.1692.7743
1345 1693.3385So1693.7675 
1347 1694.4529I had never understood that.1695.6641 
1349 1697.9117And you know, your family talk about1699.5390 
1351 1700.3550white people1701.0358 
1353 1701.1384in a negative way, so you d- adapt that.1703.2262 
1354DCB_int_011703.7065Mm-hm.1704.1774
1355DCB_se2_ag4_f_011706.1032But1706.4250
1357 1706.9134it wasn't til high school1708.1258 
1359 1710.0655that my attitude about white people changed.1711.6369 
1360DCB_int_011713.4730Miss /RD-NAME-3/.1714.1304
1361DCB_se2_ag4_f_011714.1444Miss /RD-NAME-3/.1714.8625
1363 1716.5971Mm-hm.1716.9561 
1365 1718.4156Because I worked at the /RD-WORK-2/,1719.6500 
1367 1721.2215it was an older lady there.1722.5878 
1369 1724.0799I was nineteen,1724.9006 
1371 1725.6781worked in the kitchen,1726.4382 
1373 1728.9888was proud to have a job (hard to understand because of chewing).1730.1032 
1375 1730.6348Eighteen.1731.1011 
1377 1731.3424I was eighteen.1731.9626 
1379 1734.7090And she-1735.3711 
1381 1736.6989I just think people were amazed by the things that1739.2868 
1383 1739.8744I was doing.1740.6064 
1385 1740.7137I think I amazed people. I don't know what it was.1742.7840 
1386DCB_int_011743.6222I [mean that's] a lot going on.1745.0956
1387DCB_se2_ag4_f_011743.7527[But I-]1744.0092
1388 1746.0469And I had it-1746.5458
1390 1746.6484they would say, and you have it together.1748.1685 
1392 1749.1850I didn't complain about anything.1750.5781 
1394 1754.2571Um,1754.6570 
1396 1756.4475Miss /RD-NAME-2/,1757.1376 
1398 1757.7485God rest her soul,1758.7230 
1400 1759.9680she um,1760.8027 
1402 1761.1978became my work mother1762.2843 
1403DCB_int_011762.7926Mm.1763.0723
1404DCB_se2_ag4_f_011763.9676at /RD-WORK-2/.1764.4992
1406 1765.4318So of course, I would take lessons from her,1767.3715 
1408 1767.7714you know, notes out of her book.1769.0723 
1410 1770.7090And then,1771.3525 
1412 1773.7994right after that summer,1774.9558 
1414 1778.3224I went to work1779.0964 
1416 1781.9909at /RD-WORK-5/.1782.8489 
1417DCB_int_011783.6556Mm-hm.1783.9866
1418DCB_se2_ag4_f_011785.8646Cause she was the one /that said, well apply over there/.1787.6645
1420 1790.0659I never even1790.5742 
1422 1790.7001thought I could.1791.4648 
1424 1793.5386And1794.0702 
1426 1794.4386they didn't have anything.1795.5110 
1428 1795.7908Then I found a contact,1797.0545 
1430 1798.4941Miss /RD-NAME-2/,1799.2682 
1432 1800.4619white lady.1800.9375 
1434 1801.1706<laugh>1802.1219 
1436 1803.5289She was in charge1804.4615 
1438 1805.4640of this program.1806.4199 
1440 1808.4529It was a surgical tech program,1810.0092 
1442 1811.6738and I wanted it.1812.3546 
1444 1816.2657I would call her every two weeks.1817.5200 
1446 1819.0820<laugh>1819.5204 
1448 1820.3690I must have called this lady-1821.7947 
1450 1824.3313She said, I'll let you know when the program starts up again.1826.4996 
1452 1829.0770But the program never started up again.1830.7277 
1454 1832.0333They had another program1833.1617 
1456 1837.5670for unit clerks.1838.4996 
1458 1840.0791And unit clerks1840.9371 
1460 1843.4318were the ones to transcribe doctor's orders and all of that.1846.6433 
1461DCB_int_011846.6294Oh, okay, cause I was gonna ask you what was [that.]1848.4059
1462DCB_se2_ag4_f_011848.2194[<laugh>]1848.7463
1463 1849.3991They manage the units,1850.5928
1465 1850.7420the hospital [units.]1851.8786 
1466DCB_int_011851.5616[Gotcha.] Okay.1852.2377
1467DCB_se2_ag4_f_011852.7926And that wa- that was a very nice job, very respectable job.1855.8607
1469 1856.4623I got that job,1857.4088 
1471 1857.6641and in the mean time, me and /RD-NAME-3/'s father1859.5480 
1473 1860.1308and /RD-NAME-2/'s father were going through it.1861.6929 
1475 1863.7481So,1864.1258 
1477 1865.9256I was saving money,1866.9468 
1479 1868.7141and I left him1869.3249 
1481 1870.2050one day.1870.5687 
1483 1872.6624I left their father.1873.7349 
1485 1874.3877Cause I was moving-1875.4030 
1487 1875.7387I was growing,1876.5734 
1489 1877.3987not fast, but I was growing.1878.7790 
1491 1879.8188And he wasn't in the same direction- Excuse me for eating like [this.]1882.4428 
1492DCB_int_011882.2377[No],1882.6107
1493 1882.8951please.1883.4873
1494DCB_se2_ag4_f_011884.1215But um,1884.9095
1496 1886.1918we separated then.1887.1850 
1498 1889.4640And1889.8790 
1500 1892.9892we went our separate ways.1894.1724 
1502 1897.5483I got me an account,1898.5835 
1504 1898.7793saved me some money,1899.8600 
1506 1900.5081bought me a car.1901.2542 
1508 1902.4945My first car,1903.2686 
1510 1903.4877Dodge /Colt/,1904.1592 
1512 1904.9612<laugh>1905.4543 
1514 1905.8367brand new.1906.4988 
1516 1907.8417Two thousand, nine hundred, and ninety nine dollars it cost.1910.3457 
1517DCB_int_011910.6814Mm.1910.9239
1518DCB_se2_ag4_f_011910.9472Boy was that a lot of money.1912.0885
1520 1915.6229Bought a brand new car,1916.9332 
1522 1919.7065/RD-NAME-3/ and /RD-NAME-2/ was in private school.1921.3805 
1524 1922.2851I was doing it,1923.1104 
1526 1923.8040least I thought.1924.5314 
1528 1926.9888And then one day I woke up, and I wanted something else.1929.1197 
1530 1931.7764And at school, there was a gen- gentlemen that one of the parents that worked at a-1935.5522 
1532 1935.7248at a um,1936.3869 
1534 1937.0210mortgage company,1937.8883 
1536 1940.5509and he gave me some- he said,1941.6595 
1538 1942.0139why don't you-1942.6060 
1540 1942.7599why don't you try to by a house?1944.3500 
1542 1944.8302I said, me?1945.4084 
1544 1945.5530Is that possible?1946.4110 
1546 1947.5849He said, there's so many programs.1949.1283 
1548 1949.5433Yeah.1949.8790 
1550 1950.9095<laugh>1951.3851 
1552 1952.7595So I learned about the program.1954.2050 
1554 1956.4199My best friend1957.2033 
1556 1957.6602put ten thousand dollars in my account1959.3191 
1558 1959.4450t- so that I could show1960.4941 
1560 1961.0444you know,1961.3335 
1562 1961.6645that I could afford it.1962.5505 
1564 1964.1825Cause I was saving up the money.1965.3436 
1566 1967.8790And1968.3779 
1568 1970.8306nineteen ninety,1971.7807 
1570 1972.0605I bought my first house.1973.4174 
1572 1975.1706It was the last part of eighty nine, ninety,1977.0358 
1574 1977.5709bought my house.1978.1910 
1576 1978.7086By then, /RD-NAME-3/'s getting ready to go to school.1980.2427 
1578 1982.2804/RD-NAME-3/ was um,1983.3482 
1580 1983.8227smart little girl.1984.8392 
1582 1987.6090My son was kind of1988.9146 
1584 1989.7854<ts>1990.0372 
1586 1990.6014spoiled.1991.2495 
1588 1991.5713What we did back then was1993.5157 
1590 1994.3177we had the attitude make our girls stronger cause we didn't- I didn't want her- I know for me, I didn't want her to rely on anybody1999.7484 
1592 2000.3037to-2000.4343 
1594 2000.5217you know, on-2001.0720 
1596 2001.1559not a man.2002.1491 
1597DCB_int_012002.5921Mm.2002.7926
1598DCB_se2_ag4_f_012002.8019You know, after seeing what my mother went through, and2005.0354
1600 2006.3923the fact that her father and I did not make it. Um, he was not v-2009.5992 
1602 2009.7251t- at the time a res- To me,2011.1940 
1604 2011.7628responsible enough to2013.0964 
1606 2013.4496take care of us, so2014.6387 
1608 2015.1703you need to be able to take care of yourself.2016.8769 
1609DCB_int_012017.2452[Mm-hm.]2017.7248
1610DCB_se2_ag4_f_012017.4178[And I] think2018.0659
1611 2019.3657unfortunately-2020.4149
1613 2020.6433Cause that's not always the best thing you wanna tell a girl.2022.6624 
1615 2024.1172It can be-2024.6488 
1617 2024.9472It can be2025.4077 
1619 2025.6921a bad- This- Not- N- It's not the greatest thing.2027.7391 
1621 2028.4292You got- You got to balance it.2029.6229 
1622DCB_int_012029.7582/Oh. Uh- Yeah/.2030.2105
1623DCB_se2_ag4_f_012030.5369So2030.9612
1625 2031.3797my whole drive was to make her self sufficient and independent, and2034.7836 
1627 2035.2919she was in all sorts of programs, uh, /Upward Bound/- All kinds of programs, and2039.8790 
1629 2040.6437she went to um,2042.1219 
1631 2043.7854Georgetown Day um,2045.4733 
1633 2045.6878camp.2046.2381 
1635 2046.4852And that's when she took horseback riding and2049.0171 
1637 2049.8367became an equestrian and so2051.7811 
1639 2052.4526I started following the-2053.5064 
1641 2053.7722the path of the white folks.2055.3098 
1643 2056.8159Cause they had it all,2057.6459 
1644DCB_int_012057.7671Mm-hm.2058.1122
1645DCB_se2_ag4_f_012058.6158and I wanted it.2059.4318
1647 2060.2011I wanted the same things they had for they children, I wanted for mine.2063.3894 
1649 2064.0702So I would2064.5598 
1651 2064.7044get in little nooks and cranny and2066.3224 
1653 2066.6861rub elbows and get in where I could,2069.0630 
1655 2069.5153where somebody would say,2070.5691 
1657 2070.8396I'm gonna help this little poor black woman.2072.8108 
1659 2073.2398I didn't care what they called me,2074.3962 
1661 2074.5501long as I got the help.2075.4920 
1663 2076.4292I didn't care.2077.0168 
1665 2077.9913Cause it wasn't about me at the time, it was about the [kids.]2080.0465 
1666DCB_int_012079.7108[Kids. /Mm-hm/.]2080.8998
1667DCB_se2_ag4_f_012080.2097[You know, I got to get] them what they need.2081.6878
1668 2082.2474If they wanted-2082.9375
1670 2083.0914If they wanted me to be their charity work,2085.1466 
1672 2085.5149so be it.2086.1631 
1673DCB_int_012087.1003Do you feel like you had to2088.9888
1675 2089.9493um-2090.3550 
1677 2091.3237But it was never- You were n- It was never a welfare program. This was always just other help- other people helping you.2096.0379 
1678DCB_se2_ag4_f_012096.4704It was just always2097.6175
1680 2097.8880for some way- somebody would drop a m- a- a- an- a-2100.8909 
1682 2101.2546say something. And I would take what they said and run with [it.]2103.9113 
1683DCB_int_012103.5273[With it. Mm-hm.]2104.1771
1684DCB_se2_ag4_f_012104.7926Um, I do remember2106.0003
1686 2106.2101coming up in-2106.8536 
1688 2107.0308when they were in private school, I was never well received.2110.2377 
1690 2112.1308I was a young mother.2113.1567 
1692 2113.5064I was a black mother, and a dark black mother.2115.9066 
1694 2117.1469You know, it was a school where2118.6344 
1696 2120.0193um,2120.5322 
1698 2121.5942it was very mixed, but the black children were treated differently. Even though it was a private school, and they weren't-2126.9472 
1700 2127.0918You know, they- they-2128.0092 
1702 2128.2284You know, they got m-2128.9744 
1704 2129.1609money, but it wasn't like somebody was-2131.0727 
1706 2131.6331There was um,2132.4669 
1708 2135.6459a foundation2136.6158 
1710 2137.2173for kids, you know,2138.3037 
1712 2138.5369then.2138.9519 
1714 2139.4263And I applied for it and got it, but2141.5386 
1716 2142.3080you know the rest, I had to pay out of pocket. But2144.3364 
1718 2144.5602I wasn't re- never well received by the kids- the- the mothers at the schools my children went to.2149.0774 
1720 2149.2686Never2149.8841 
1722 2150.5042ever2150.8726 
1724 2151.0533ever received.2151.9299 
1725DCB_int_012152.3030Do you feel like there was ever a point- I guess, especially like, moving to Southeast because that's a different-2157.0778
1727 2157.3424People have a lot of different perceptions about Southeast.2160.0515 
1728DCB_se2_ag4_f_012160.0422I did too.2160.7696
1729DCB_int_012160.9142[Okay.]2161.3199
1730DCB_se2_ag4_f_012161.1473[I] didn't know when I come up- When I was coming up in DC, I knew nothing about the Southeast. That- just not to go there.2167.0261
1731DCB_int_012167.2126Mm-hm.2167.5297
1733 2167.6602Cause Northwest is a long way from [Southeast.]2169.9113 
1734DCB_se2_ag4_f_012169.0440[Yeah.]2169.8926
1735 2170.0325[We never rode no bus] over [there! We] were told never-2172.8489
1736DCB_int_012170.0372[Especially as a kid.]2171.3278
1738 2171.5992[/Yeah/.]2172.0655 
1739DCB_se2_ag4_f_012173.0774you don't wanna get caught over there.2174.5602
1741 2174.7047That's what we were told.2175.6500 
1743 2177.4360We were told that- And how I came to Southeast, how I came to purchase a house in Southeast-2181.6828 
1745 2182.2703When I was awarded um-2183.9723 
1747 2184.6297In this program to purchase a house, I only had a certain amount of time.2187.9346 
1749 2188.7413Every house that I looked at2190.1681 
1751 2190.7743in Northwest or off of Michigan Park, Northeast, where I really wanted to live over by /Catholic/-2196.0282 
1753 2196.8209The houses were anywhere from ten to twenty thousand dollars more, could be the same identical [house.]2201.3847 
1754DCB_int_012201.2262[House.] Mm-hm.2202.0329
1755DCB_se2_ag4_f_012202.0515It could be a semi detached row house,2204.0473
1757 2204.5870three bedrooms w- you know,2205.9905 
1759 2206.2750one and a half baths,2207.6599 
1761 2207.9769nothing any more, no fix up.2209.7302 
1763 2210.6861I would look at that house over off of um, Sergeant Road.2214.1834 
1765 2214.4805Come over to Southeast, look at the same house, and it's much cheaper.2217.4730 
1767 2220.3826Much cheaper.2221.0541 
1769 2222.1732A friend- How I came to Southeast- A friend of mine who works for the Department of Public Works at the time-2226.6531 
1771 2226.8023He worked there-2227.4691 
1773 2228.0566I met him in the eighties, and he-2229.5709 
1775 2229.9299he said, why don't you take a look over Southeast? And I was- Everything I heard about Southeast was2234.0146 
1777 2234.2198negative.2234.9519 
1778DCB_int_012235.0405Mm-hm.2235.4823
1779DCB_se2_ag4_f_012235.7621So one day we drove over there, and I drove th- in this neighborhood, and I was like,2240.0333
1781 2240.5555Oh!2240.8913 
1783 2242.6713Oh.2243.0817 
1785 2244.2241And I found a house.2245.2313 
1787 2245.6602And I bought the house.2246.7187 
1789 2247.1046And I moved in the neighborhood, they were all2249.1330 
1791 2249.6132teachers and everybody who had2250.8909 
1793 2251.4178been teachers were retired.2252.7234 
1795 2253.3704They all were professional black people.2255.2262 
1797 2256.6391You know, they were all professional black people, and2259.4881 
1799 2260.7180it was just wonderful.2261.6832 
1801 2263.2872It was just wonderful.2264.0799 
1803 2264.5602And so I left /RD-WORK-5/ in ninety six, and I went to work for2267.6132 
1805 2268.0888/RD-WORK-12/ in ninety seven,2270.7234 
1807 2271.1617which at the time was an HIV AIDS organization.2273.7997 
1808DCB_int_012273.5596Hm-mm.2274.0189
1809DCB_se2_ag4_f_012274.8862And2275.3199
1811 2275.7395it really humbled me.2277.1291 
1813 2278.7879Cause I had gotten a little wha- I got like most black people, you get a little2281.6882 
1815 2282.1592educated. You know, cause I went in school between times, you know, whenever I could go to school.2286.4106 
1817 2287.2313Um-2287.7162 
1818DCB_int_012288.6022Where'd you go?2289.0684
1819DCB_se2_ag4_f_012289.4869My first school I went to /RD-SCHOOL-3/.2290.9558
1820DCB_int_012291.4780Mm.2291.8371
1821DCB_se2_ag4_f_012292.3313Didn't wanna go to a black school.2293.4924
1823 2294.4331Don't- n- n-2295.1046 
1825 2295.9532I don't think any of us liked ourselves at the time.2298.0842 
1827 2299.1893We were saying it loud, black and I'm proud but you know, we had some issues with2302.3123 
1829 2303.2728you know, we were not2304.4199 
1831 2305.6509succeeding. All you heard was negative things.2307.8926 
1832DCB_int_012308.3123Right.2308.5641
1833DCB_se2_ag4_f_012308.9791You know, I went to the Howard Theater, to hear- see James Brown sing, say it Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud.2313.7621
1835 2314.6573I enjoyed that2315.7298 
1837 2317.6229cause I could be proud to be black.2319.0638 
1839 2319.8227I musta been about-2320.6900 
1841 2322.0562I musta been about fourteen, fifteen when I went.2324.5835 
1843 2325.0673My first /sweatshirt/ but,2326.5687 
1845 2327.0770you still had some issues. We were tryna make it, and2329.8048 
1847 2330.8027you know,2331.5068 
1849 2332.1537it appeared that we were trying to separate ourselves from ourselves for [lack of a better word.]2336.5415 
1850DCB_int_012335.5372[Mm. Mm.]2336.5444
1851DCB_se2_ag4_f_012337.0358Black folks were getting /edumacated/,2338.8765
1853 2339.5433you know,2340.0049 
1855 2340.2940and they were talking different, and2342.2711 
1857 2342.7840um,2343.0953 
1859 2343.4403they were2344.0139 
1861 2344.2097dressing different, and they were2345.9443 
1863 2346.2381living in different neighborhoods. So,2348.4063 
1865 2348.7595you wanted those things.2350.1440 
1866 2350.9698And2351.2775
1868 2352.0049the only way you thought to have 'em was to separate2354.0286 
1870 2354.1965yourself from the folks who didn't have it,2355.8600 
1872 2356.1677not understanding that those are the same folks who2358.3686 
1874 2358.5971got it,2359.0261 
1876 2359.1473or the same folks who didn't [have it.]2360.5509 
1877DCB_int_012360.2664[Have] it. Yeah.2360.9146
1878DCB_se2_ag4_f_012361.8413So once you learned those things,2363.3474
1880 2364.3313and I really have to say, coming to /RD-WORK-12/ ham- humbled me.2368.6154 
1882 2369.5619It really did because2371.1520 
1884 2371.5297when I'm-2371.9120 
1886 2372.0892w- was at /RD-SCHOOL-3/,2373.2783 
1888 2374.3216/RD-SCHOOL-4/ was an all girls school.2376.7510 
1890 2379.0346There was no support there,2380.2284 
1892 2380.6667uh, of any kind for me.2381.9676 
1894 2383.4271And then it was too expensive,2384.7514 
1895DCB_int_012384.9927Mm.2385.2165
1896DCB_se2_ag4_f_012385.1279so I wind up2385.9579
1897 2386.3309you know, I went there for a whole- almost a year and a half.2389.0867
1899 2389.6229and then I wind up going to2390.8493 
1901 2391.0813/RD-SCHOOL-3/,2391.7854 
1903 2393.3894where all the love and support2394.7323 
1905 2394.9701was there.2395.5763 
1907 2396.4016And my professor,2397.3715 
1909 2397.8646one of my professors in Sociology,2399.8044 
1911 2400.5272Doctor /RD-NAME-5/,2401.7302 
1913 2402.4343God rest his soul-2403.5849 
1915 2406.3593I was talking to him one day, and he said, oh, come work for me.2408.6721 
1917 2409.0638And that's how I came to /RD-NAME-5/ and2411.0910 
1919 2411.6412understood what they were doing. And the- they were doing community work and2414.9379 
1921 2415.3937social work and2416.3869 
1923 2416.8951caring about the people and,2418.4572 
1925 2419.1147we got to help our people cause if we don't help ['em ain't] nobody gonna help 'em. But2422.6713 
1926DCB_int_012421.1792[Mm.]2421.4170
1927DCB_se2_ag4_f_012423.2915I went through all the, you know-2424.6764
1929 2424.9142I mean I'm a- I'm fifty seven,2426.3830 
1931 2426.5275so2426.9752 
1933 2427.6595I saw the riots,2428.7646 
1935 2428.9371and s- experienced and saw the impact of 'em, the neighborhoods tore up.2432.5602 
1937 2433.4543And then I saw the segregation even more,2435.6086 
1939 2436.4339but I always saw that2437.5530 
1941 2438.3970we got less.2439.2736 
1943 2439.8553We always got less.2440.8672 
1944DCB_int_012440.9884Mm.2441.2682
1945DCB_se2_ag4_f_012441.7858Because the few- the little bit of time that I had to /dab/ into,2445.1850
1947 2445.4869how white people lived and what they were doing.2447.6738 
1949 2448.6204They did it off the backs of our- our people.2450.5928 
1950DCB_int_012453.8231Do you feel like now that's even more so?2456.0286
1951DCB_se2_ag4_f_012456.0379Oh,2456.6022
1953 2456.7327God yes (whispering).2457.7947 
1955 2459.0350I think it's because we live in a reality world now,2462.0379 
1957 2462.6814so everybody's saying what they want and doing what they want.2465.1796 
1959 2465.7112So nobody's biting their tongue2466.8862 
1961 2467.7442cause they don't have to. People are starting up their own businesses.2470.2563 
1963 2470.4568They're not relying on the government money where they have to be cautious,2473.0121 
1965 2473.2219so they can say what they want and treat people the way they wanna treat 'em.2475.4088 
1967 2476.7739Or not.2477.4407 
1968DCB_int_012477.7485Mm.2478.0189
1970 2478.7370Do you feel like DC like- Cause of- You know, it's changed-2481.5860 
1971DCB_se2_ag4_f_012481.7061When I was coming up, it was called the Chocolate City.2483.8371
1972DCB_int_012484.2194And [when-]2484.6624
1973DCB_se2_ag4_f_012484.3593[Something]- This regentrification really- has really angered me2488.1211
1974 2488.5454because why couldn't we get2489.8371
1976 2490.3127regentrification for people who work every day.2492.5462 
1978 2492.8400DC was built for people who2494.4848 
1980 2494.8625work for the government, who caught busses to work.2497.0261 
1982 2497.3572These people-2497.8887 
1984 2498.0146People worked.2498.8027 
1986 2500.0418They were working people.2501.1236 
1988 2501.7345You didn't need a car in DC!2503.0541 
1990 2503.7302I caught DC transit everywhere2505.6735 
1992 2505.8040before I got a car.2506.6294 
1994 2507.7951My children went to- w- caught the bus to school.2509.7675 
1996 2510.2478We didn't even think about a car. We never even thought about driving- using a car2513.2728 
1998 2514.2427til I got around some white folks.2515.4877 
1999DCB_int_012517.2258And that changed /you/?2517.9486
2000DCB_se2_ag4_f_012517.9486That ch- really did. It changed everything because2520.1355
2001 2520.4013that's what you supposed to have.2521.8639
2002DCB_int_012522.7549Mm.2523.1279
2004 2523.2025And that was -Especially in Northwest, right? Because that's- that's right away from2526.9282 
2006 2527.2499the Cap- I mean, it's cl- it's far enough away from the Capital so they could be away, but it's close enough they could /inaudible/.2532.2147 
2007DCB_se2_ag4_f_012531.4034[I was right at the Gold] [Coast.]2532.9981
2008DCB_int_012532.8582[Mm-hm.]2533.4271
2009DCB_se2_ag4_f_012533.6929So,2534.3550
2011 2534.8621you know, it was,2535.9206 
2013 2536.0418you know,2536.4615 
2015 2536.7133you were kind of in between, caught it-2538.5831 
2017 2538.8069you know,2539.1567 
2019 2539.8328in between.2540.5275 
2021 2541.6502But um,2542.4428 
2023 2543.5853it was clear,2544.3313 
2025 2544.5971you know,2545.1054 
2027 2546.2571that2546.7234 
2029 2549.3661they had it.2549.9676 
2031 2550.8769You know, Mr. /RD-NAME-2/, my history teacher used to try to teach it to us, black history,2555.3288 
2033 2556.1448and I took government,2557.5017 
2035 2557.7815loved government2558.6395 
2037 2558.8120cause that's when you learned about,2560.1444 
2039 2561.1656you know, how it works.2562.3733 
2041 2562.9188That made sense, and then you-2564.4156 
2043 2565.0300I was2565.5569 
2045 2566.3263treated in different cause of my complexion.2568.1028 
2046DCB_int_012569.7628You feel like even within2570.9181
2048 2571.1046[the black ra- mm.]2572.9091 
2049DCB_se2_ag4_f_012571.3098[My own community, I was] treated different i- because of my complexion. [Peo-]2575.3665
2050DCB_int_012574.9375[And why do you] say that?2575.9120
2051DCB_se2_ag4_f_012576.4110Oh, I remember when my2578.0278
2053 2579.3241grandfather died. /And then/ when my mother's brother died, and2582.5462 
2055 2582.6849people- family come around, and2584.4289 
2057 2585.1376I had real thick hair,2586.5831 
2059 2587.1380somewhat- a decent- you know, nice long /length/.2589.7994 
2061 2593.4084They would say, that's /RD-NAME-4/'s dau- daughter.2595.3575 
2063 2597.1423She's not bad looking for a dark skinned child.2599.5763 
2065 2601.5429You hear those things coming [up as a ch-]2603.2728 
2066DCB_int_012602.6340[And you still hear] now.2603.7251
2067DCB_se2_ag4_f_012604.0329[You know],2604.5458
2068DCB_int_012604.0376[That is] not- I'm not [surprised.]2606.0333
2069DCB_se2_ag4_f_012605.3945[when I was coming] up,2606.4110
2070 2607.6688even when I2608.3216
2072 2608.4708separated, or even when I was interested in other people while I was married, cause I was in high school,2613.7621 
2074 2614.5408they weren't interested in me because um,2616.4992 
2076 2616.6297I was just a girl. They were probably interested in me more because2619.6688 
2078 2620.0978I was married. I was probably more- a- ap- i- I probably appeared2623.7302 
2080 2624.1498to them like I had more worldly sense than2626.6633 
2082 2627.0677the average girl.2628.0282 
2083DCB_int_012628.0236Mm-hm.2628.5458
2084DCB_se2_ag4_f_012629.1846But2629.4831
2086 2631.3750I've always been- oh, she's so black.2632.9604 
2088 2633.9210She smart but she black.2635.2219 
2089DCB_int_012637.5895[Do you think that made difference like-]2639.0397
2090DCB_se2_ag4_f_012639.0164[Oh.]2639.7438
2091DCB_int_012639.1656[in your resour-] Like, the access you had to resources, and like,2642.5882
2092 2642.7840your experience,2643.7714
2094 2644.4708not even just within your own community, but I'm just saying navigating the city.2647.4691 
2095DCB_se2_ag4_f_012648.1452I would see people who were fair skinned and- that would be treated differently.2651.5573
2097 2651.9956I was in sixth grade. This girl's name was /RD-NAME-4/. She was w-2655.2725 
2099 2655.4123She was very fair skinned with wavy hair,2657.6086 
2101 2657.9536pig tails.2658.5318 
2103 2658.8209My hair was pig tails and2660.9099 
2105 2661.3622um, happy to nappy.2662.6713 
2106DCB_int_012662.8625Mm-hm.2663.1703
2107DCB_se2_ag4_f_012663.7438That little girl got treated-2665.3105
2109 2665.4597and this was sixth grade-2666.7420 
2111 2667.2736My teacher, Miss /RD-NAME-2/,2668.7040 
2113 2669.5806treated that little girl different than she treated everybody else.2672.4156 
2115 2672.8948/Hear what I tell you/.2673.7248 
2116DCB_int_012674.6573And she was black?2675.3008
2117DCB_se2_ag4_f_012675.6272She was black. Cause her mother was dark, real [dark.]2677.9979
2118DCB_int_012677.8188[I mean] no, the teacher was black?2679.0405
2119DCB_se2_ag4_f_012679.0405Yeah the teacher was black,2679.9952
2120 2680.5128but she treated her different- That's when I started learning about it in school.2683.4691
2122 2684.2245But yeah,2684.7607 
2124 2684.9425I started really paying attention cause when I was in high school, wasn't no white kids in the2688.4199 
2126 2688.6018high school.2689.1800 
2128 2689.7675Um,2690.1125 
2130 2691.0673the teachers were teachers. You know, w- you didn't have many black- uh, white teachers, but there were a few.2695.5623 
2132 2696.0426I only had one.2696.8586 
2134 2697.4030Um, and then when I went to /RD-SCHOOL-3/, um,2699.7485 
2136 2700.0096they were all white.2700.6391 
2138 2700.7743There weren't no black teachers there.2701.8981 
2140 2703.0859But um,2703.8087 
2142 2704.2377when I went to /RD-SCHOOL-3/,2705.6552 
2144 2705.9536it was totally different.2706.9841 
2145DCB_int_012707.2499Now did you go when it was separate campuses or when it was the2709.8973
2147 2710.0885/RD-SCHOOL-2/ campus, or did you go when it was like, in different parts of the [city?]2713.7955 
2148DCB_se2_ag4_f_012713.7115[It was] just /RD-SCHOOL-2/ campus when I- Well, see it was /RD-SCHOOL-6/ [/down there/.]2717.6412
2149DCB_int_012717.0817[Mm, right, okay.] Mm-hm.2718.1401
2150DCB_se2_ag4_f_012718.2800Okay, I only went to /RD-SCHOOL-2/ campus. [By the time] I went,2720.8166
2151DCB_int_012719.9260[Okay.]2720.2664
2152DCB_se2_ag4_f_012721.2025a majority of the, you know, s- classes were- disciplines and things were2724.7417
2154 2725.0867on campus.2725.9167 
2156 2727.0207And um,2727.8740 
2158 2730.3640it made a big difference.2731.5437 
2159DCB_int_012733.0953[/Cause it felt like/] profess- It wasn't like,2734.8672
2160DCB_se2_ag4_f_012733.1932[I felt like-]2733.7201
2161DCB_int_012734.9977people right out of high school. It [wasn't your traditional] [college] [student.]2737.8887
2162DCB_se2_ag4_f_012736.1122[No.]2736.6344
2164 2737.0447[Mm-mm.]2737.4737 
2166 2737.6602[It wasn't-] it- Right. There were older people there. There were teachers there. Um,2742.3873 
2167 2744.5555it was2744.8586
2169 2745.3984diverse in terms of2746.4522 
2171 2746.9558edu- you know the, uh, educators.2748.9095 
2173 2749.4597You know, we had a lot of Indians. We had a lot of um-2752.1398 
2175 2754.3220lot of Indians, lot of Africans.2756.0519 
2177 2756.5602You know,2756.9973 
2179 2757.2025in terms of-2758.1025 
2181 2758.5361It seemed like a lot to us. If it was2760.2334 
2183 2760.6251probably more than three, it was a lot.2761.8468 
2185 2762.6581But- <laugh>2763.6500 
2187 2764.4615But that's where I c-2765.2868 
2189 2765.4873You know, those are the things that you start2767.2079 
2191 2767.3478learning about who you are. You start reading. You start2770.2750 
2193 2771.1236tryna understand, you know.2772.8862 
2195 2773.1054Um-2773.6323 
2196DCB_int_012773.7861What do you think is your most influential or your favorite book?2776.6760
2198 2777.8417And it could been that you read [during that time-]2779.8794 
2199DCB_se2_ag4_f_012778.9701[Race Matter.]2779.7675
2200DCB_int_012780.3597Which one?2780.7094
2201DCB_se2_ag4_f_012780.7747Race Matters.2781.5394
2203 2781.8880[Cornel W-]2782.4946 
2204DCB_int_012782.1398[Cornel West?]2782.8392
2205DCB_se2_ag4_f_012784.9142Mm-hm.2785.2872
2206DCB_int_012786.3877Did you see him just recently? He was at uh,2788.3030
2207DCB_se2_ag4_f_012788.2890[Howard.]2788.7599
2208DCB_int_012788.5408[Howard?]2788.9278
2209DCB_se2_ag4_f_012789.2309I usually see him every time he comes to Howard.2791.5577
2211 2791.7768He does something to me that-2793.6500 
2213 2798.4551I think black people are scared of him2800.0592 
2215 2800.1664so much. You know, people treat [him-]2801.8669 
2216DCB_int_012801.5874[He's insightful.] He makes [you-]2802.8954
2217DCB_se2_ag4_f_012802.7392[He] just [makes you think. Right.]2804.6649
2218DCB_int_012803.3966[He incites]2804.5111
2219 2805.2478emotion.2806.0265
2220DCB_se2_ag4_f_012806.1804Right.2806.4555
2222 2807.2610Him.2807.6620 
2224 2808.3615Him.2808.7252 
2225DCB_int_012810.0121Have you read most of his stuff?2811.5988
2226DCB_se2_ag4_f_012811.9939Most of it. I have- /Well/-2812.8787
2228 2813.0792That one he signed for me, and so that's very n- dear to me.2816.2733 
2230 2816.8328Um,2817.3038 
2232 2818.9113one of the things I think h-2820.4361 
2234 2820.8278we missed the boat on is learning about finances2823.6395 
2236 2823.7747at a very y- young age.2824.9766 
2238 2825.9978I think we missed that boat, but we were too /bigsy/ tryna survive. So we-2829.1918 
2239DCB_int_012829.3038[It wasn't about the checking] and savings [account. It was] just [tryna /get to the next day/.]2832.8977
2240DCB_se2_ag4_f_012829.4157[What was finance?]2830.5021
2242 2831.1211[Wasn't no-]2831.4009 
2244 2831.5408[Wasn't about finance when th- n-]2833.0562 
2245 2833.1821It was about making it.2833.9981
2246DCB_int_012834.3199[Mm-hm.]2834.8188
2247DCB_se2_ag4_f_012834.5577[So]2834.9820
2248 2835.1033you know, um,2835.9193
2250 2836.4777even though there were black people who were,2838.0351 
2252 2838.4780I think for poor black people,2840.1287 
2254 2840.5297you know, you were just trying to2841.7887 
2256 2842.0906make ends meet.2842.8647 
2258 2843.6014But um,2844.3755 
2260 2845.3267you didn't feel poor.2846.4085 
2261DCB_int_012847.5229Mm-hm.2847.9332
2262DCB_se2_ag4_f_012848.0860Your table was clean. It wasn't like you ate on no crate or nothing-2851.1355
2264 2851.4339My mother had table cloths and2853.2292 
2266 2853.8260f- plates [and-]2854.9673 
2267DCB_int_012854.6921[And you] cared about2855.7133
2268 2856.0584what things looked [like. It wasn't just any kind of way.]2858.4424
2269DCB_se2_ag4_f_012856.0630[Yeah.]2856.7532
2271 2856.9863[My mother cared about- It was] about- Yeah. Appearance was [everything.]2860.1233 
2272DCB_int_012859.8808[Thing.] Mm-hm.2860.6269
2273DCB_se2_ag4_f_012860.9906Appearance was2861.8905
2275 2862.1889everything.2863.1635 
2277 2864.2546You didn't go out the house with your hair not combed. Your clothes had to be ironed.2868.0817 
2279 2868.5014And I think I in- I instilled that with my children.2871.0659 
2281 2871.6768They-2872.0032 
2283 2872.3564They couldn't go out the house until2874.5713 
2285 2875.5878they were well groomed, and I would change their clothes twice a day. Appearance was a big deal.2880.0957 
2286DCB_int_012880.5107Mm.2880.9303
2287DCB_se2_ag4_f_012881.0096Appearance was a big deal.2881.9795
2288DCB_int_012882.2546Cause that's what the first thing people see. They judge you before you can open your [mouth.]2885.5128
2289DCB_se2_ag4_f_012885.0559[Honey],2885.4615
2290 2885.5968appearance-2886.3335
2292 2886.8138When my ch- We would get on the bus, they were well- w-2889.1266 
2294 2889.2665well groomed, well cleaned, everything. Whenever they went anywhere-2892.9785 
2296 2893.4619Um,2893.8722 
2298 2894.2639my mother even taught us that.2895.4670 
2300 2895.6535You know, um,2896.5254 
2302 2896.9673children will be seen and not [heard], so that mean that2899.5831 
2303DCB_int_012898.3242[Heard.]2898.6552
2304DCB_se2_ag4_f_012899.6997appearance was everything,2900.7908
2306 2900.9494you know, and2901.8073 
2308 2902.3937we caught the b- I remember2903.5874 
2310 2903.7460my mother2904.3288 
2312 2906.3245talking about Garfinckel's- You don't know nothing about Garfinckel's and2909.3916 
2314 2909.8159Woodies and2910.8184 
2316 2911.4992Julius Lansburgh's. Those were the stores black people couldn't go into2915.4755 
2318 2915.9278for a long time.2916.9303 
2320 2918.6789They couldn't go in those stores until2920.2317 
2322 2921.1071the seventies.2921.9045 
2324 2924.3059Garfinckel's was a high end store2926.0964 
2326 2926.9999that was on Fourteenth Street. Actually, on Fourteenth and um,2930.1520 
2328 2931.0286G Street.2931.8073 
2330 2932.8880On- Um- Then there was Julius Lansburgh's that was on Seventh Street. And then there was um, Woodies.2939.1491 
2332 2940.6506And then there was Hecht's.2941.7697 
2333DCB_int_012942.7768I know Hecht's.2943.5882
2334DCB_se2_ag4_f_012943.7281Mm-hm.2944.2363
2336 2944.7807The original Hecht's2945.8392 
2338 2947.3966before it became Macy's and all of that.2949.2126 
2340 2949.4903But2949.7794 
2342 2950.6968Hecht's.2951.2191 
2344 2951.8252And2952.3381 
2346 2953.4199you know, but we didn't shop at no- no- none of those stores. We shopped at2956.7761 
2348 2957.3962Morton's, MacBride's,2959.4619 
2350 2960.7768um,2961.3877 
2352 2962.8367/Sears and ??/,2963.8066 
2353DCB_int_012964.0630Mm.2964.2635
2354DCB_se2_ag4_f_012964.2822maybe.2964.7112
2355DCB_int_012966.3758When do you feel like,2967.6675
2357 2969.1631you2969.4382 
2359 2969.8579no longer just had to survive, but you kind of- Not-2972.1800 
2361 2972.4598That you arrived. That you were at just a good2974.6408 
2363 2975.0792place.2975.6667 
2364DCB_se2_ag4_f_012975.6667I haven't gotten there yet.2976.5760
2365DCB_int_012977.5925Still on that journey.2978.4738
2366DCB_se2_ag4_f_012979.0100I haven't gotten there yet.2979.9612
2368 2980.2398As a matter of act, it's ironic you should say that. It was just the other day-2983.6577 
2370 2984.4924I have a very dear friend who's a therapist and2986.7947 
2372 2987.3449sometimes when I'm talking to her, she's being a therapist I can tell. And sometimes she's being a friend.2992.1244 
2374 2993.1118And she said, you've been in survival mode all your life.2995.6065 
2376 2995.7557You don't know what it's like not to be.2997.6441 
2378 2998.0918Because I'm always tryna make sure things are in place.3001.0984 
2380 3002.0261I'm always afraid of not having enough food, not having enough money.3005.3216 
2382 3006.0584Those are issues for me.3007.1495 
2384 3007.7417And I don't mean I have to be rich or anything,3009.4623 
2386 3009.8855but making sure everything is covered.3011.5175 
2387DCB_int_013012.4594And so what do- You still work with3014.1567
2389 3014.4504family services.3015.9659 
2390DCB_se2_ag4_f_013015.9845/RD-WORK-12/. I've been there for seventeen years.3019.5232
2391DCB_int_013020.4178And do you still do HIV counseling?3022.2410
2392DCB_se2_ag4_f_013022.5243No, I do not. I- I have3024.2449
2394 3024.4687become a manager3025.7277 
2396 3026.0354there. M-3026.7862 
2398 3027.2944project director, project manager.3029.5641 
2400 3030.1983Um,3030.8837 
2402 3031.0609I don't do direct client service3032.8608 
2404 3033.4576um,3033.9985 
2406 3034.3564directly, but you know, if clients come to me who were my clients years ago,3038.5484 
2408 3038.9494I'm always gonna make time for 'em.3040.2725 
2410 3040.7248I can remember a time I wouldn't even hug my client.3042.7951 
2412 3043.0609I hug 'em to death.3044.1380 
2413DCB_int_013045.4530Was that before- that- Was that because you were f- like,3047.8112
2415 3047.9977that was the big [fear? /inaudible/]3049.5925 
2416DCB_se2_ag4_f_013048.5666[I thought I was too cute.]3049.8582
2417 3050.0308Come on now!3050.7722
2418DCB_int_013050.6090[Oh, okay. I thought it was like], I was gonna get AIDS [or something. Cause that was a big thing, that-]3054.7485
2419DCB_se2_ag4_f_013051.2711[I thought I was-]3052.0824
2421 3053.0931[Uh- No, I thought I had arrived.] I was a s- Well, it was a control piece for me,3058.0405 
2422 3058.3797you know.3058.7528
2424 3059.0931[That-]3059.3543 
2425DCB_int_013059.1957[To] keep [it separate-]3059.9045
2426DCB_se2_ag4_f_013059.5501[maintains]3060.6086
2427DCB_int_013060.1050[Mm.]3060.5899
2428DCB_se2_ag4_f_013060.7531image3061.3220
2430 3061.7137separate.3062.2593 
2432 3062.7209But doing all that, it doesn't mean you can't care about people.3065.1304 
2433DCB_int_013065.8532Mm.3066.2169
2434DCB_se2_ag4_f_013067.2800So /RD-WORK-5/ really helped restore my caring about3070.3389
2436 3070.6735human beings.3071.5688 
2437DCB_int_013072.0677And do you still live in the house- your first house that you purchased or have you since [moved?]3075.6208
2438DCB_se2_ag4_f_013075.3317[No], I just sold that house that I first purchased um,3078.7112
2439 3080.0587April.3080.4877
2440DCB_int_013081.1825Oh.3081.4716
2442 3081.7514Like,3082.0172 
2444 3083.0279couple months ago.3083.7879 
2445DCB_se2_ag4_f_013083.9418Mm-hm.3084.4640
2446DCB_int_013084.9956And you bought a new house?3086.1893
2447DCB_se2_ag4_f_013086.2872Well I've been in the- The house that I've been in now, I've been in for over ten years.3089.7459
2449 3091.4386Struggling.3091.9422 
2450DCB_int_013093.2991And where is that?3093.9939
2452 3094.1932Is that-3094.4776 
2454 3094.6222that's the- that's still in [Southeast?]3096.2356 
2455DCB_se2_ag4_f_013094.7528[And-]3095.0092
2457 3096.0071[It's in] the Southeast Gold Coast they call it.3097.9935 
2458DCB_int_013098.6789I don't know Southeast Gold- I've never heard that term.3100.9859
2459DCB_se2_ag4_f_013101.2517It's Hillcrest.3102.1796
2460DCB_int_013103.4992Mm-hm.3104.1846
2462 3104.3852Okay, now that you put it that way, I did just interview someone who [grew up in that area.]3108.3708 
2463DCB_se2_ag4_f_013107.2284[<laugh>]3108.8324
2464 3109.5437It's Hillcrest. That's the area that3112.7086
2466 3112.9464th- th-3113.3754 
2468 3113.8091the elitist3114.7790 
2470 3114.9375black people would move to, and3117.1897 
2472 3117.4916now they're3118.1025 
2474 3119.5806tryna move us out, but.3121.0681 
2475DCB_int_013123.0171So now you have- That's-3124.0605
2477 3124.6900Hill- That's- You have arrived.3126.3406 
2478DCB_se2_ag4_f_013126.9561Well, <sigh>3127.6929
2480 3127.8468y- I- To me, arriving meaning [when you-]3129.9859 
2482 3130.5035[you don't worry about] anything.3132.0795 
2484 3132.4013[You know, it's not]3133.6463 
2486 3133.8001um-3134.2944 
2488 3136.4751You know, you're [managing everything.]3138.1401 
2489DCB_int_013138.3220[Mm-hm.]3138.7696
2490DCB_se2_ag4_f_013139.0308You know, [I'm still-]3139.6574
2491DCB_int_013139.2219[And you don't] [feel like you're at that place?]3140.9332
2492DCB_se2_ag4_f_013141.1372I'm still struggling to hold [/onk/.]3142.5687
2494 3143.8837At [fifty sev-]3144.6764 
2495DCB_int_013144.0935[Is that more] [mental?]3145.2033
2496 3145.3711[Or do you feel like] that's your [physical, financial, social]-3148.7599
2498 3148.9837[or is that] [mental because, I still haven't reached a] place I wanna be,3152.0613 
2499DCB_se2_ag4_f_013148.9931All of that.3149.4827
2500DCB_int_013152.2571[even though I'm in a good place.]3153.6500
2501DCB_se2_ag4_f_013152.5742[I don't even think- I- I've] gotten to the point where I'm tryna find some peace,3156.1495
2502 3156.2800tryna balance it, so3157.7209
2504 3158.9519where I wanna be is with peace. And [I don't think]-3161.1003 
2505DCB_int_013160.6900[Mm.]3161.1003
2506DCB_se2_ag4_f_013161.5246You know, and I got to3162.2940
2508 3162.6437balance it because3163.7628 
2510 3164.2944to me, peace come when everything is in order.3166.4755 
2512 3168.6064You know, so I'm learning to get some peace w- even though it's-3170.9332 
2514 3171.5895All that's not [in or-]3172.6014 
2515DCB_int_013172.2190[Chaos] is everywhere.3173.2029
2516DCB_se2_ag4_f_013173.2029[Mm-hm.]3173.7158
2517DCB_int_013173.3428[Yeah.]3173.7391
2518DCB_se2_ag4_f_013174.3873So um,3175.4038
2520 3177.9159yeah.3178.2517 
2522 3178.6200I'm struggling to hold on.3180.3080 
2523DCB_int_013180.3033What do you do for fun?3181.2313
2524DCB_se2_ag4_f_013182.0659I hand dance.3182.9985
2525DCB_int_013183.6268Can you tell- You are the first person3185.5480
2527 3185.9256that I have asked about hand dancing.3187.9307 
2528DCB_se2_ag4_f_013187.9167[Mm-hm.]3188.4156
2529DCB_int_013188.2979[Someone] told me about it [before but-]3190.0885
2530DCB_se2_ag4_f_013189.4636[That's a DC-]3190.2796
2531 3190.4009That's a DC culture.3191.5853
2533 3191.7811Every-3192.2660 
2535 3192.4292Every3192.9561 
2537 3193.3898African American city has it.3195.0311 
2539 3195.1885Um, Chicago has swing,3196.9511 
2541 3197.5806everybody has some form of it, but3199.7069 
2543 3200.1825they have um, done- They've done a documentary on hand dancing in DC and the cultural of it.3205.4504 
2545 3205.9773Really it's before my time. It was the people who were in high school in the sixties.3209.9593 
2546DCB_int_013210.9049[So what is] it?3211.6789
2547DCB_se2_ag4_f_013210.9142[Okay?]3211.4644
2548 3212.3830It's a f-3212.7747
2550 3213.1524uh-3213.6500 
2552 3213.9439It's a- a dance where man and a woman3215.9536 
2554 3216.0609are dancing, and a man leads the woman3218.5136 
2556 3219.5149all the time.3220.2517 
2558 3220.8019She's never in charge.3222.0749 
2560 3222.4852That is the one time she in not in charge.3224.4716 
2562 3225.4636He3225.7714 
2564 3225.9113leads her the whole dance.3227.6412 
2566 3228.2567Um,3228.6297 
2568 3229.4224and dances- You dance to the-3231.4869 
2570 3231.6455the music of the sixties even though now you can dance to3234.5785 
2572 3235.2639a lot of R&B.3236.3690 
2574 3237.0346But most of it was music from- all the music from the sixties and3240.4199 
2576 3240.6064some of the fifties.3241.6556 
2578 3242.2338Um, and /bobbing/. You know, it was3244.1864 
2580 3244.5594/music/3244.9837 
2582 3245.9210for The Temptations, some,3247.5670 
2584 3248.0519um,3248.4949 
2586 3249.5522The Miracles,3250.5874 
2588 3251.1050you know, The Supremes.3252.4386 
2590 3253.0308All of Motown.3254.0659 
2592 3254.3550All of Motown, Sam Cooke.3256.5268 
2594 3256.9884You know, [all of those] people.3258.5411 
2595DCB_int_013257.5246[Mm-hm.]3258.1028
2596DCB_se2_ag4_f_013258.8769Otis Redding.3259.8654
2598 3260.5555Brook Benton.3261.4182 
2600 3261.7201You know, all of those people.3262.9324 
2602 3263.4500So it's a dance that two people do,3265.8188 
2604 3266.1498man and woman do together,3267.5755 
2606 3267.9626and it's very nice.3268.7832 
2607DCB_int_013269.4081Is there anything that's iconic about hand dancing that you don't see in other dances? Like is there a reason it's called hand dancing [verse-]3275.3197
2608DCB_se2_ag4_f_013275.1236[Because] you're touching.3276.0982
2609 3276.4712Which you don't [d- d-]3277.3525
2610DCB_int_013277.0681[And you] touch the whole time.3278.4856
2611DCB_se2_ag4_f_013278.6208You h-3279.1011
2613 3279.5009You gracefully touch.3280.8625 
2614DCB_int_013281.0024Mm-hm.3281.5386
2615DCB_se2_ag4_f_013281.7065So,3282.1914
2617 3282.8163what's iconic about it- that it's not a loose dance where someone is touching you in a provocative way.3288.6260 
2619 3289.1007Um, that they dance now, more3291.0032 
2621 3291.2212free.3291.5476 
2623 3292.7506Free styling, people are touching and they3294.5785 
2625 3295.1846close.3295.6276 
2627 3296.3410You get close, but it's su- It's done in such a way that it's very3300.4712 
2629 3300.7650elegant.3301.2266 
2630DCB_int_013302.7980What about go go music?3303.8180
2631DCB_se2_ag4_f_013304.3263Love it3305.2169
2633 3305.7298to death.3306.3127 
2635 3306.4386My children,3307.0867 
2637 3307.5530um,3307.8234 
2639 3307.9596were young when go go music was up, so I didn't get a chance to go out as much and do any of those things,3312.9338 
2641 3313.2182but I love go go.3314.2208 
2642DCB_int_013315.2932[/Inaudible/]3316.0766
2643DCB_se2_ag4_f_013315.2979[Love] /it/.3316.4869
2644 3316.9952Well, my- I would have to say my favorite3319.1250
2646 3319.2322is-3320.0529 
2648 3322.0719What's the group that sing-3323.0372 
2650 3324.2344I like EU.3325.1157 
2652 3326.0762I like Trouble Funk. See when I came up, it was EU, Trouble Funk,3329.0045 
2654 3329.3391Chuck Brown.3330.1831 
2656 3330.5188Because you know, Chuck is3331.4374 
2658 3331.6799deeper than go go music. [You do know] that.3333.7828 
2659DCB_int_013333.0927[Mm-hm.]3333.5683
2660DCB_se2_ag4_f_013334.2911You know,3334.6408
2662 3334.9940he was with the soul searchers and all of them.3337.0550 
2664 3337.6239But um,3338.4399 
2666 3338.6358when my kids were3339.7689 
2668 3340.2212in junior high school,3341.2983 
2670 3341.7215so I stayed abreast at it,3343.5260 
2672 3343.7778you know.3344.2721 
2674 3344.9389Um,3345.4378 
2676 3345.6430love it.3345.9787 
2678 3347.3531Love it.3347.8240 
2679DCB_int_013347.9779Do you have a favorite song?3348.9338
2680DCB_se2_ag4_f_013349.6985<laugh> <ts>3350.2627
2682 3351.1627<sigh> Um,3352.7108 
2684 3353.0931I like all of Chuck. I like his old music. I like um,3356.2114 
2686 3356.5565The Policeman is on the Premises3358.5476 
2688 3359.5909and um,3360.7053 
2690 3362.1322Five in the Morn- I mean, uh,3363.4844 
2692 3363.6569Three in the Morning.3364.5522 
2694 3364.6723I- I can't- I- Don't ask me the name of it, but I do know it.3367.2136 
2696 3367.4094Uh,3367.8244 
2698 3367.9596The Pancake House with you know-3369.3539 
2700 3370.0160That's when they used to wear Adidas sweats suits and3372.4768 
2702 3372.7846[Kangol hats.]3374.0109 
2703DCB_int_013372.8079[Mm-hm. Mm-hm.]3374.5099
2704DCB_se2_ag4_f_013374.2114[<laugh>]3374.4912
2705 3374.8269My3375.2233
2707 3375.3352children3376.0160 
2709 3376.1046had to have Adidas sweat suits and Adidas tennis shoes.3379.0364 
2710DCB_int_013379.7358W- Did they do the hat?3380.7197
2712 3381.3445[/?/]3381.6663 
2713DCB_se2_ag4_f_013381.8108No, they really didn't do the hat- well /RD-NAME-3/ did because she did a play3386.7057
2715 3387.6476in school.3388.3657 
2717 3388.9801Now, see, now when you talk about3390.5328 
2719 3390.7566racial issues,3391.7405 
2721 3392.1695I had more racial issues with /RD-NAME-3/ in high school3394.6548 
2723 3395.0920because her school was lily white.3397.3068 
2725 3397.9177And they3399.2653 
2727 3399.5310were not integrating any3401.4009 
2729 3402.2344black history, any black anything really.3404.7710 
2731 3405.7689And sh- she was really into Nikki Giovanni at the time.3409.1112 
2732DCB_int_013409.1576Mm-hm.3409.7172
2733DCB_se2_ag4_f_013410.1228And she wanted to do3411.9600
2735 3412.6035her speech on, I was born in the congo.3415.2229 
2736DCB_int_013415.2416Mm-hm.3415.8384
2737DCB_se2_ag4_f_013416.6544Okay?3417.1673
2739 3417.9460And they didn't want her to do it, and so I had to go up there.3420.4629 
2741 3420.9758You know, and she did Martin Luther's-3422.5472 
2743 3423.1813Um,3423.5171 
2745 3423.9833King,3424.4636 
2747 3424.6175uh,3424.9392 
2749 3425.3624Mountaintop. So she3426.2857 
2751 3426.5841w- won very- on several oratorical contests.3429.5357 
2753 3429.9740But3430.2398 
2755 3430.4730I would-3430.7189 
2757 3430.8402sh- sh- she always was encouraged to do3433.3302 
2759 3434.3886black3434.7430 
2761 3434.9901literature because she went to a lily white school.3436.9999 
2762DCB_int_013437.9686She was the exposure.3439.1739
2763DCB_se2_ag4_f_013439.1670Mm-hm.3439.7079
2764DCB_int_013439.8804Mm-hm.3440.1975
2765DCB_se2_ag4_f_013440.3980But for me, I was ha- was very blessed to have a lot of positive3443.2598
2767 3443.5862educated black women.3444.7613 
2769 3445.1763I worked- when I worked at /RD-WORK-4/ for twenty years,3447.4658 
2771 3447.8341/RD-NAME-3/ and /RD-NAME-2/ grew up3448.9952 
2773 3450.0992in the hospital3450.8685 
2775 3450.9618because-3451.3861 
2777 3451.7778You know, they were always there.3452.8503 
2779 3454.3937So people- When it was time for them to go to school,3456.4862 
2781 3456.7846people were very generous to me.3458.3000 
2782DCB_int_013460.3890Are you a Delta?3460.9859
2783DCB_se2_ag4_f_013461.7308N- Unfortunately, I'm not.3463.1436
2784DCB_int_013463.5493Oh, okay.3463.9736
2785DCB_se2_ag4_f_013464.1089[No, that was-]3464.6591
2786DCB_int_013464.1508[/Alright/, I didn't] know if I had seen you [wearing-]3466.3144
2787DCB_se2_ag4_f_013465.9833[I w-] I wanted to be one.3467.4428
2788 3467.9826I mean when I tell you I wanted to be one- Like, I could taste it.3470.6404
2790 3472.1885I wanted to be one.3473.1724 
2792 3473.6608But3473.9126 
2794 3474.0199I wanted her to be one. I can remember very much so, when she was like,3477.6196 
2796 3478.1885I'm not pledging anything.3479.9639 
2798 3480.7566I don't need to be defined by3482.9855 
2800 3483.5730an organization.3484.5942 
2802 3486.0618And I said, oh.3486.9012 
2804 3487.1763Af-3487.4327 
2806 3487.6146af- after first year, she called home. She said, I have something to tell you.3491.3169 
2808 3492.6074And I said, what? And she said, I wanna pledge Delta, and it's gonna cost this much.3497.3169 
2810 3497.8334And at the time, I was working at the /RD-WORK-5/, Doctor /RD-NAME-5/-3500.8782 
2812 3501.1627who's recently just died3502.7294 
2814 3503.7121last week-3504.2763 
2816 3505.6845was a Delta.3506.4119 
2818 3507.3072And she gave me her registration fee money.3509.3111 
2820 3509.5443She said, of course she can be a Delta.3511.5260 
2822 3513.3445Yeah.3513.6150 
2823DCB_int_013515.3484[/Aw/.]3515.7308
2824DCB_se2_ag4_f_013515.4137[S-]3515.6468
2825DCB_int_013516.2111That's just cra- It's so funny, like listening3518.9948
2827 3520.1978because I-3520.6781 
2829 3520.8553I think about my experiences. I don't think I've had as m-3524.3840 
2831 3524.5332Race has been-3525.5264 
2833 3525.8435I grew up in the South, and race was-3527.4522 
2835 3527.7774it's an [issue],3528.8787 
2836DCB_se2_ag4_f_013528.3090[Prevalent.] Mm-hm.3529.2276
2837DCB_int_013530.1881but I think my mom sheltered me from it3532.2072
2839 3532.4217a lot.3532.9486 
2840DCB_se2_ag4_f_013533.2144Mm-hm.3533.6294
2841DCB_int_013533.7961Um, and my grandma, and then when I got3535.8850
2843 3536.0855you know, when I came here-3537.8341 
2845 3538.0766I go to- I went to Geo- It was very diverse.3540.1691 
2847 3540.9525But I-3541.3488 
2849 3541.7218coming outside and living outside of that bubble,3543.7362 
2850DCB_se2_ag4_f_013543.9740[Mm-hm.]3544.3844
2851DCB_int_013544.1465[you know, I didn't] do that as a student. So [now like], hearing these stories and how much3547.8697
2852DCB_se2_ag4_f_013545.6888[Mm-hm.]3546.0665
2853DCB_int_013548.2348race like, played a [part] in like, [this city]3551.1537
2854DCB_se2_ag4_f_013549.5637[<ts>]3549.7036
2856 3550.0113[<sigh>]3551.1211 
2857DCB_int_013551.6422from going from Chocolate City- one girl calls it the swirl that's losing the chocolate.3555.2699
2858DCB_se2_ag4_f_013556.1932Uh,3556.7854
2859DCB_int_013556.9101[<laugh>]3557.8147
2860DCB_se2_ag4_f_013557.2890[exactly.] Uh, when you look at-3559.4700
2861 3560.3793When I look at3561.1580
2863 3561.8901being a young woman going out entertainment,3564.3743 
2865 3564.5654it was black. It was just- We- We were everywhere.3567.1300 
2867 3568.5382The only time I really saw a lot of people were tourists.3571.0271 
2868DCB_int_013571.9550Mm-hm.3572.5052
2870 3573.0508Do you- Have you done the- Have you been a tourist? Or have you-3575.7634 
2871DCB_se2_ag4_f_013575.7354Mm-hm.3576.1271
2872DCB_int_013576.0945Since you've always just lived [here /inaudible/.]3577.9783
2873DCB_se2_ag4_f_013577.2742[No, one time-] Nope.3578.6917
2874 3578.9249One time, I r-3579.9554
2876 3580.1139I learned a lot3581.1024 
2878 3581.2971becoming a tourist one time (laughing). And it wasn't until I w-3584.0669 
2880 3584.4866got married again.3585.2373 
2882 3586.1092We took the bus-3587.2283 
2884 3587.4976tour bus,3588.2064 
2886 3588.9804and I learned about the /archiatect/.3591.4844 
2888 3591.6010I learned to appreciate the /archiatect/ more in DC.3594.1504 
2889DCB_int_013597.6663So do you still like-3598.7294
2891 3599.1479Do you go with your grandkids to like, the [monuments and-]3603.2466 
2892DCB_se2_ag4_f_013602.4213[No.]3603.2653
2893 3603.5217They don't- I try to. They always go,3605.4615
2895 3605.7308no, I don't wanna do that Nana.3607.0877 
2897 3607.3861These children today-3608.6358 
2899 3609.4844See when you w- We were- When I was coming up, that's all you had. You didn't have a whole bunch of a-3613.3628 
2901 3613.9317you know, distractions and [gadgets.]3615.7362 
2902DCB_int_013615.2886[Video games] and-3616.2491
2903DCB_se2_ag4_f_013616.3377Gadgets and stuff. We had to make do. We-3618.7566
2905 3619.2695If we didn't have real jacks, we played with3621.4051 
2907 3621.5637rocks3622.2258 
2909 3622.4310and a ball.3623.1024 
2910DCB_int_013623.8847Mm-hm.3624.2810
2911DCB_se2_ag4_f_013624.2017If we didn't have a baseball, we played- You know, we- we- If we had a bat and a ball, we was doing good.3629.3857
2912 3629.6235We m- We may not even had a glove.3631.4188
2914 3633.4704If one person had a bike in the neighborhood, everybody rode it,3635.9826 
2915DCB_int_013636.3136Mm-hm.3636.7893
2916DCB_se2_ag4_f_013637.6006You know, so, it wasn't like,3639.1767
2918 3639.5823you know, anybody was more pri- There was always a few people who had a li- two dollars more than you did.3644.5699 
2920 3644.7010You know, it's always gonna be that.3645.9134 
2922 3646.4496But3646.8460 
2924 3648.8825we- we didn't- we- You know, it was just a s- way it was. I mean, you-3652.4683 
2926 3652.5849people worked every day, and3654.1598 
2928 3654.8359um,3655.5260 
2930 3656.7990you had re- chores and responsibilities and,3659.3169 
2932 3659.9546you we- we were latchkey kids, for lack of a better word. We didn't look at it that way. Our parents worked. You went home. You3665.3449 
2934 3665.7588took off you-3666.3883 
2936 3666.8312your school clothes. You cleaned up. You got caught playing3669.3958 
2938 3669.7549outside in 'em, you got a whooping.3671.1864 
2939DCB_int_013671.4090Mm-hm.3671.9033
2940DCB_se2_ag4_f_013672.0292You can't even whoop a child now.3673.2835
2941DCB_int_013673.4421Mm.3673.6985
2943 3673.8897Without somebody calling somebody or saying [something.] Mm-hm.3676.7667 
2944DCB_se2_ag4_f_013675.7176[Mm-hm.]3676.2212
2945 3676.8973Right.3677.2610
2947 3677.3577But I think- I don't think3678.7240 
2949 3679.1903abuse or beating a child3681.1767 
2951 3681.6663is accepted, but I do think some children, if you had whooped their hind butts a little bit,3685.7498 
2953 3686.0576they may not be out here doing some of the things they're doing.3688.6222 
2954DCB_int_013688.8833If you could leave a piece of advice to-3690.9338
2956 3691.6799Not even just young people, but like,3693.1114 
2958 3694.1465anybody. Like, especially in this time, in this space.3697.7172 
2960 3698.0622Kind of thinking about you being in survivor mode, what would that piece of advice be?3701.8099 
2961DCB_se2_ag4_f_013705.4564Learn about who you are.3706.5557
2963 3708.6960And- and- and- and- and- and-3710.7337 
2965 3711.2932don't-3712.0160 
2967 3714.4908I think black3715.1949 
2969 3715.4887kids have a little bit more pride about who they are now3718.0673 
2971 3719.0278than when I came up. So,3720.2997 
2973 3720.7240I think3721.4141 
2975 3722.1788one of the things that is missing for young people-3724.6735 
2977 3725.5489When we were coming up, there was always somebody striving3728.4399 
2979 3728.7757to get better for us.3730.0788 
2981 3730.9859You know, the3731.6620 
2983 3731.9173um-3732.4476 
2985 3733.9317the Martins,3734.8549 
2987 3735.5124the /Eggers/.3736.3844 
2989 3737.0407Somebody was there3738.3403 
2991 3738.7613telling us,3739.5167 
2993 3740.2814we need somebody like that.3741.8062 
2995 3742.7621Obama can't do it by hisself.3744.3370 
2996DCB_int_013745.8897Do you feel like that changed the city? Do you feel like that changed the feel of [the city?]3749.5454
2997DCB_se2_ag4_f_013748.9113[Obama ain't had] nothing to do with the change of the feel of the city.3751.4794
2998 3751.7218That was happening under the tables. They sold us out.3754.5056
3000 3755.9453The council people,3757.2462 
3002 3758.3047all of the people who are /tryna- making/ money3761.2656 
3004 3761.5816sold the people out.3762.7426 
3006 3763.7825Okay?3764.0995 
3008 3764.3280This is the District of Columbia. We're not that big.3766.5522 
3010 3766.7807How in the hell you gonna let them come in here and overbuild like that?3770.0343 
3012 3770.4259We didn't agree to that.3771.4145 
3013DCB_int_013771.8714Mm.3772.1465
3014DCB_se2_ag4_f_013772.2351So it's about money. It's not about people.3774.3929
3016 3774.6540It's never been about [people.]3775.9690 
3017DCB_int_013775.5186[Peop-] Mm.3776.3373
3018DCB_se2_ag4_f_013776.9622We live in a capitalist society.3778.5709
3020 3779.3531They don't care about people3780.4629 
3022 3780.8499catching the bus to work, an-3782.1602 
3024 3782.3653They care about it now3783.5077 
3026 3785.0453that you done moved everybody [out.]3786.4768 
3027DCB_int_013786.2670[Out.] [Mm-hm.]3787.2276
3028DCB_se2_ag4_f_013786.7986[And you done put] bikes on every corner and all of that, and3789.3445
3029 3789.6383you done put these- ap- overgrown these streets with apartment buildings and condos and3794.3280
3031 3794.5705all of that.3795.1907 
3033 3795.2792Where the parks? Where?3796.6455 
3035 3796.8122What?3797.1386 
3036DCB_int_013798.8312Yeah,3799.1390
3038 3799.3348I can [only imagine] what it was like to watch over the last [/twenty/ years.]3803.5772 
3039DCB_se2_ag4_f_013799.5120[Where is the vision?]3800.4819
3041 3802.3797[You have so much open] space- The city was so pretty. The-3805.5866 
3042 3805.8524the monuments, and3806.9808
3044 3807.3678you didn't have this abundance of traffic and3809.9779 
3046 3810.9385all this overgrowth, everybody tryna make a dollar.3813.1300 
3048 3814.1279All of those condos ain't filled up!3816.1598 
3050 3816.6680They get3817.0504 
3052 3817.2089kickbacks when those condo-3818.5752 
3054 3818.8269w-3818.9575 
3056 3819.1860Okay. So we didn't fill our condos, so they get the tax breaks?3822.1365 
3058 3822.9804Cause can't nobody afford 'em.3824.1135 
3059DCB_int_013825.4378Yup.3825.7316
3061 3826.7154That's true.3827.2796 
3063 3827.7215That's why everybody's on the3828.9152 
3065 3829.1809[outskirts.]3829.8617 
3066DCB_se2_ag4_f_013829.7545[Okay], I'm'a build this building so it- but if I don't get it filled up, it's okay cause I'm'a get3833.5268
3067 3833.7028a tax break cause I didn't make my-3835.4048
3069 3837.0927There no jobs.3838.2538 
3071 3841.9923In years to come, everything'll be contract. People ain't gonna have no place to work.3845.2470 
3073 3845.8101If you don't have your own entrepreneurship,3847.7172 
3075 3847.9783you gonna be out of luck.3848.7850 
3076DCB_int_013849.6989So you feel like the city's on a downward spiral?3851.6060
3077DCB_se2_ag4_f_013851.7994<ts>3851.9533
3079 3852.8592For working people.3854.3373 
3081 3856.7014The working people.3857.6329 
3083 3857.8101The working poor3858.7100 
3085 3859.4887who catch the bus in the morning, who catch the bus in the evening.3862.2724 
3087 3863.8007I would not be able to retire in this city and live here comfortably.3866.7803 
3089 3868.7656At the salary I make now, when it's time for me to retire, I can't live here.3872.6358 
3090DCB_int_013877.2695Wow.3877.5820
3091DCB_se2_ag4_f_013879.5077You work in a community where the Safeway is /eplorable/.3883.4234
3093 3884.8876And we have council people, and all these people-3887.2237 
3095 3887.4324supposed to care about the people.3888.8592 
3097 3889.4794You go to that Safeway, it look like a prison.3891.4658 
3098DCB_int_013891.8761Mm-hm.3892.2818
3099DCB_se2_ag4_f_013893.2505You won't find that in a white neighborhood.3895.2929
3101 3896.9901They're not having it.3898.1092 
3103 3900.8334/Marion Barry/ said what he- w- what was really happening. They don't wanna hear that.3904.6990 
3104DCB_int_013905.0114Mm.3905.4590
3105DCB_se2_ag4_f_013906.5688But he says it. They don't care about these people.3908.7032
3107 3910.4145Uh-uh.3910.9741 
3109 3911.4870Fenty didn't care. Williams didn't care.3913.1983 
3111 3914.2183And I don't think Bow-3914.9644 
3113 3915.1742m- Bowser care either.3916.5031 
3115 3918.1445I didn't even know who she really was.3919.5200 
3116DCB_int_013920.4701Yeah, she didn't- It wasn't a lot of people that voted.3922.4635
3118 3922.5917I mean it was a [very]3923.4404 
3119DCB_se2_ag4_f_013923.2958[I] did not [vote for- I don't know her.]3925.4967
3120DCB_int_013923.8694[small percentage of- Mm-hm.]3926.2789
3121DCB_se2_ag4_f_013925.7847[You know-]3926.2136
3122 3926.4141You know, people go with what they know. Even when I was tryna read about her3929.6036
3124 3929.8647and get a feel for who she was, I couldn't do it.3932.8058 
3126 3934.9275I pay taxes in here.3936.2704 
3128 3937.7007In this city.3938.3862 
3130 3940.2840But I don't get to- I don't get to reap the benefits.3942.5035 
3131DCB_int_013942.6341/Somebody- Yeah/.3943.2857
3132DCB_se2_ag4_f_013944.2090Mm-mm.3944.6053
3134 3945.0903At all.,3945.5939 
3135DCB_int_013948.6527/It's cause/ you live on the other side of the river.3950.1912
3136DCB_se2_ag4_f_013950.7685Y- Well, you know,3951.6218
3138 3952.2187they expanded Capitol Hill. When I was coming up, Capitol Hill may have been four or /flive/ blocks long.3956.6473 
3140 3957.2721Now it's all the way back to Seventeenth Street almost.3959.6689 
3142 3960.7693What the heck?3961.5433 
3143DCB_int_013962.3162It's getting to be a big hill. /It's a little/ [mountain. Capitol Mountain.]3965.4404
3144DCB_se2_ag4_f_013963.9855[Right. Right. Right. Right.] Right.3965.7574
3145 3965.9859It's all of that.3966.7553
3147 3966.9092It's [all of that.]3967.5387 
3148DCB_int_013967.1190[Mm-hm.]3967.6179
3149 3968.0038Just all of that going on.3969.0763
3150DCB_se2_ag4_f_013969.1089I w- And- and it's not that I don't, you know- I don't- I resent3971.6362
3152 3971.8600white folks coming here,3973.1890 
3153DCB_int_013973.2962Right.3973.6319
3154DCB_se2_ag4_f_013973.7380I don't resent that, but I just resent the fact that3976.3166
3156 3976.7596other people can't afford to be here.3978.3123 
3157DCB_int_013979.4256[Mm.]3979.8126
3158DCB_se2_ag4_f_013979.4349[And that's] where the anger comes in at3981.0157
3159 3981.5472because3981.9389
3161 3982.1721somehow3983.0300 
3163 3984.8206Seven Elevens are coming back.3986.5540 
3165 3987.5705They took all the Seven Elevens out.3989.3051 
3167 3990.1351But we don't /know/.3990.8206 
3169 3993.6032All the taxi cab- These were jobs that3995.7901 
3171 3996.2191people's parents had even after they did they work.3998.9737 
3173 3999.4120They worked at the post office.4000.7782 
3175 4001.1233Then, they w- drove the cab at night.4003.2029 
3176DCB_int_014003.8919Mm.4004.3582
3177DCB_se2_ag4_f_014005.4120That's what they did.4006.1254
3179 4008.8066That's what they did /about home/.4010.1437 
3181 4010.5447They cost maybe seventeen /dollars/ an hour.4012.5311 
3182DCB_int_014014.8801And [both] parents were doing-4015.9992
3183DCB_se2_ag4_f_014014.9978/The h-/4015.2682
3184 4016.1157And both parents were working. The neighborhood that I moved in on T Place, the house that I sold in April,4020.3450
3186 4020.8754the- my neighbors said when they bought their house they paid seventeen thousand dollars for it. I think the o-4024.8482 
3188 4025.0720the-4025.2818 
3190 4025.4077the highest one who paid for one, paid twenty seven thousand4028.5400 
3192 4029.1742for it.4029.4260 
3193DCB_int_014032.2509You can barely rent an apartment for a-4034.1997
3194DCB_se2_ag4_f_014034.4841[Exactly.]4035.2721
3195DCB_int_014034.5354[a- a year] or two for that [much.]4036.5544
3196DCB_se2_ag4_f_014036.1161[Exactly.]4036.9368
3197 4037.4031Exactly.4038.0839
3199 4040.0085Exactly.4040.6473 
3200DCB_int_014042.2047So what do you think is gonna be-4043.5989
3202 4043.9253How do you think this is gonna look in ten years?4045.8546 
3203DCB_se2_ag4_f_014046.1017It won't.4046.4002
3205 4046.6939We- They gonna have it so you have to pay a tax- You gonna have to pay a toll to get here-4050.3077 
3207 4050.4895in here.4050.9185 
3209 4051.5842<laugh>4051.9479 
3211 4052.8012You gonna pay a toll to get in.4054.1581 
3213 4055.8694And then they gonna-4056.6014 
3215 4056.8579It's no longer- It's- You- You gonna have- be able- It won't be taxation without representation4061.0001 
3217 4061.4870because see, then, it's gonna impact them.4063.0537 
3218DCB_int_014064.3349Mm.4064.7779
3219DCB_se2_ag4_f_014065.0716And they make the changes.4066.2840
3221 4068.5921Eleanor Holmes Norton been fighting about it for twent- two decades, and we ain't got4072.0089 
3222DCB_int_014072.0042Nothing yet.4072.6710
3223DCB_se2_ag4_f_014072.6990nothing yet.4073.4031
3225 4076.7685It's sad but it's true.4077.7477 
3226DCB_int_014077.7337It's true.4078.2280
3227 4078.9787And I think you can see that. Like, I just [remember coming here seventeen years ago-]4082.4608
3228DCB_se2_ag4_f_014080.4895[I don't like the school system. I don't like] all these chartered schools.4084.0928
3229 4084.3866I don't like that kids can't walk to school.4086.5315
3231 4086.8719I don't like the-4087.6366 
3233 4088.0131the fact that the crime is so high.4089.8876 
3235 4090.1581I don't like that the drugs are still coming.4092.3590 
3237 4092.9278We don't have no-4093.5853 
3239 4093.7240no airplanes and no boats,4095.4633 
3241 4095.6498ships.4096.0741 
3243 4096.2886How do drugs get here?4097.2865 
3245 4099.4862These- Our black children are starting to be missing every day.4102.4938 
3247 4102.8202Something's wrong.4103.8600 
3248DCB_int_014103.9719Yeah.4104.3543
3249DCB_se2_ag4_f_014105.2811People- Our black kids are getting killed4107.1742
3251 4107.9343by police officers.4109.3238 
3253 4110.4569Something [wrong.]4111.4641 
3254DCB_int_014111.1097[Way too] frequently.4112.1903
3255DCB_se2_ag4_f_014112.4561Too frequent.4113.0203
3256DCB_int_014113.2022Way too frequently.4114.4239
3258 4116.6994/Yeah/.4116.9838 
3259DCB_se2_ag4_f_014116.9698And then they wanna know why we angry.4118.2276
3260 4119.0483W- w- They didn't give us our forty acres and a mule.4121.3005
3262 4122.5455And then,4123.1283 
3264 4123.7940they pushed slavery aside, but we got to keep on the /Holocaust/. Keep it right in our forefront.4128.2704 
3266 4128.8579But that's okay.4129.5294 
3267DCB_int_014129.7408[/Oof/.]4130.0065
3268DCB_se2_ag4_f_014129.8779[But if] we talk about slavery4131.2908
3269 4131.8550and the pain4132.6850
3271 4133.1606that our forefather- our fathers went through?4135.0584 
3273 4135.6168We're not supposed to. Get over it.4137.1229 
3274DCB_int_014137.1136Mm.4137.6032
3275DCB_se2_ag4_f_014137.8223But they can talk about the Holocaust whenever they feel like.4140.0326
3277 4141.7287Whenever they wanna make a movie about it,4143.4913 
3279 4143.8830whenever they wanna have a museum about it,4145.9160 
3281 4146.3310whenever they wanna do whatever.4147.6086 
3283 4148.6659Hm.4148.9923 
3285 4150.8109Hm.4151.0673 
3287 4154.6240Hm.4154.8431 
3289 4155.2535Yeah.4155.5239 
3290DCB_int_014156.5125But this will always be your city.4157.8274
3291DCB_se2_ag4_f_014158.2237It will always be my city (whispering).4159.4128
3292DCB_int_014160.8991It'll always-4161.6032
3293DCB_se2_ag4_f_014161.6032The fact that I think about leaving DC really scares me.4165.2717
3294 4166.4515Every time- when I first thought I had, you know, I said, I'm not gonna be able to afford to live here.4170.0885
3296 4170.9418It just scares me. Because see, DC was built for you to be able to use public transportation.4175.0627 
3298 4175.5523There was places for seniors- people to liv- You know, they could get around.4178.9177 
3300 4179.9482That's not the same out in Maryland.4181.5150 
3301DCB_int_014182.3683Mm-mm.4182.8719
3302DCB_se2_ag4_f_014183.4489[Mm-mm.]4183.9432
3303DCB_int_014183.4489[Mm-mm.]4183.9432
3304 4184.6473[/It's not/.]4185.1089
3305DCB_se2_ag4_f_014184.6520[The services.] You know we had good social services and stuff for people to use,4188.9791
3306 4189.2717to access and everything like that. That's-4191.2954
3308 4192.6803Mm-mm.4193.1000 
3309DCB_int_014193.6362That's what someone else telling me about, her experience when she was really trying to get4197.2581
3311 4197.3747back on her feet. I think she had to leave home or something and4199.6782 
3313 4200.1165her mom4201.0024 
3315 4201.2636um,4201.6867 
3317 4202.0644wanted to move to Maryland. She said she had to get back to DC cause they had so many more4205.5803 
3318DCB_se2_ag4_f_014205.9393It [does.]4206.4429
3319DCB_int_014206.1911[services] [that she] could use.4208.2323
3320DCB_se2_ag4_f_014206.9127[It does.]4207.3650
3321 4208.4515[Mm-hm.]4208.9131
3322DCB_int_014208.5354[And she was] just [across the]4209.5892
3323DCB_se2_ag4_f_014209.0949[And peop-]4209.5239
3324 4209.6964[Mm-hm.]4210.1254
3325DCB_int_014209.6964[border.]4210.1394
3326DCB_se2_ag4_f_014211.0300Mm-hm.4211.3704
3328 4211.7341Mm-hm.4212.0839 
3330 4212.6108That's why they call the border4213.6926 
3332 4213.9059Ward Nine.4214.6613 
3333DCB_int_014215.0483Mm-hm.4215.5426
3334DCB_se2_ag4_f_014215.7058DC has eight wards,4217.0394
3336 4217.6595four quadrants,4218.6667 
3338 4219.1971and on the outskirts of s-4220.9784 
3340 4221.2908uh- o- of- the-4222.0835 
3342 4222.2653East of the river is Ward Nine.4223.8507 
3343DCB_int_014225.1412Mm-hm.4225.9992
3345 4226.8431Cause that's where a [lot of-]4227.9436 
3346DCB_se2_ag4_f_014227.4400[You know one time] they tried to make um,4230.7879
3347 4231.8126Georgetown4232.7032
3349 4234.1534part of Montgomery County.4235.2259 
3351 4235.4031Did you know that?4236.0186 
3352DCB_int_014236.1491I didn't.4236.6900
3353DCB_se2_ag4_f_014237.3463Oh.4237.6075
3355 4237.8266There was a time that ha-4238.7685 
3357 4239.2954That was there.4239.8596 
3359 4240.1068Mm-hm.4240.4798 
3361 4240.9508And Marion Barry was like, wow.4242.3730 
3363 4244.4141They wanted to make that4245.1089 
3365 4245.4726part of Montgomery County.4246.5591 
3366DCB_int_014246.5125So come in on [the other side, as you come off of- Mm-hm.]4249.4547
3367DCB_se2_ag4_f_014247.2399[Like /Unintelligible/ Boulevard] and over [that way. /Unintelligible/. Oh yeah yeah] yeah yeah yeah.4252.5984
3368DCB_int_014250.0571[Reservoir, so as you come /unintelligible/, um, <ts>]4252.0482
3370 4252.5331Clara Barton Parkway?4253.7268 
3371DCB_se2_ag4_f_014253.7828Mm-hm.4254.2537
3372DCB_int_014255.8939I'm not surprised by that though.4257.3114
3373DCB_se2_ag4_f_014257.4513Mm-hm. And w- And4258.4725
3375 4258.8035how did they consume all of Georgia up? That's where the slaves came in- They lived over there.4262.9197 
3377 4264.5331That ch-4264.7756 
3379 4264.9528That black church over there on P Street4266.8645 
3381 4267.3763corner,4267.8006 
3382DCB_int_014268.8545Mm-hm.4269.3814
3383DCB_se2_ag4_f_014269.4466they [wanna-]4269.8243
3384DCB_int_014269.7124[I can't] think of the intersection [but I know where you're] talking [about.]4271.8760
3385DCB_se2_ag4_f_014270.9761[Mm-hm.]4271.4330
3387 4271.7734[They] wanted that church gone.4273.1350 
3388 4275.0736They wanted it gone.4275.9829
3389DCB_int_014278.3843Mm.4278.7713
3390DCB_se2_ag4_f_014279.5582They have still- /sprinkle/- a few black people who still live over there.4282.2160
3391DCB_int_014282.5844It's /sprinkley/. It's very-4284.0812
3392DCB_se2_ag4_f_014284.1371[/Sprinkling/. They don't-] Move- Bought 'em out.4286.0944
3393DCB_int_014284.5661[It's ch-]4285.0359
3395 4285.3064[It ain't much.] [Yeah. Mm-mm.]4287.1482 
3396DCB_se2_ag4_f_014286.2716[Yeah.]4286.6726
3397 4287.3814Mm-hm.4287.8103
3399 4288.8129Metropolitan AME Baptist Church downtown, they try to4292.1457 
3401 4292.4115get 'em out.4292.8824 
3402DCB_int_014294.6730But didn't they just-4295.3678
3404 4296.0206rebuild-4296.7153 
3406 4296.8459Aren't [they] [rebuilding?]4297.7913 
3407DCB_se2_ag4_f_014296.9893[Not-]4297.2084
3409 4297.5349[Not-]4297.8193 
3410 4298.1737Me- Metropolitan /Beechum Hicks/ on Fifteenth and4300.8082
3412 4300.9901um, Vermont, not that one.4302.4495 
3414 4302.9158Metropolitan AME downtown-4304.7845 
3416 4304.9011All the way downtown.4306.3000 
3417DCB_int_014307.1952Okay, further in. Like, deep deep in.4309.2096
3418DCB_se2_ag4_f_014309.2283Off of- Off- Down there, off of um-4311.4886
3420 4313.7175It's not far from Brooks Brothers.4316.2996 
3422 4316.8778It's over [that /way/.]4317.7078 
3423DCB_int_014317.1389[Oh, oh], oh, oh, oh [okay.]4318.5284
3424DCB_se2_ag4_f_014318.2953[It sits] in the middle of the street.4319.5403
3425DCB_int_014319.9739Okay.4320.4169
3427 4320.5102[Okay. Okay. I was-] I was up. I was [too far up.]4323.0456 
3428DCB_se2_ag4_f_014320.7748[It's a black church.]4321.4742
3430 4322.3835[Yeah, it's a black] church.4323.4093 
3431 4324.3186Mm-hm.4324.8455