Oral History: Ms. Deloris(Yarisnel Rosario)

Abstract

This interview is on Ms Delores and nabor of mines. In this interview she talk about her childhood leading up to her adulthood she talks about all the challenges she face in her life and even talks about famous past a current event that happened and are happening. She also gives her input in my things like this happen and who it could be stopped

Research

The baltimore riot stated becuase a a young mans death. Gray's death on April 19 reignited a public outcry over police treatment of African Americans that flared last year after the killings of unarmed black men in Ferguson, New York City and elsewhere. More than 3,000 police from Maryland, New Jersey and the District of Columbia, and National Guard members in helmets, took up posts in front of businesses and hospitals in Baltimore a day after the worst rioting in the United States in years.

Resources

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/27/us-usa-police-baltimore-idUSKBN0NI1N720150427

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/28/us-usa-police-baltimore-idUSKBN0NI1N720150428

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Baltimore_protests

Interview Below

Me ~ Hi may you please state your name?

Deloris~ Deloris Thompson

Me ~ Hi Deloris Thompson so umm what year were you born?

Deloris ~ 1956

Me ~ Umm were you born?

Deloris ~ Philadelphia Pennsylvania

Me ~ Umm where were you raise umm and where were brought up at?

Deloris ~ well, i was partially raised in north philly, Uhh after my mother had difficulty she had mental problems i went to live with my cousin Junoir for her to complete raising me

Me ~ O ok, umm were you were a little kid life as a black kid as they state it, umm what was life like for you?

Deloris ~ It was tuf- Ruff because my mom had left home my father raise us at one time and he couldn't complete the job, so they moved us children up into germantown it was kinda difficult

Me ~ Did- Did you ever feel like alone like you didnt really have someone?

Deloris ~ At one time yeah

Me ~ Hmm, um, do you remember any raci- like did you ever get any racist remarks, against you while you were little that you remember of?

Deloris ~ Not really dont remember racist remarks towards me

Me ~ Ummm, what would you, What would you say was the hardest thing for you growing up in those times when things were segregated?

Deloris ~ I try to block them out

Me ~   Do you remember any riots that happened?

Deloris ~ Well, i , uh, well Martin Luther King was killed (chuckles) i remember newton stores and tearing things up and everything because the was really upset and, so uh i seen a lot of ..

Me ~ Violence?

Deloris ~ Violence, at that time

Me ~ Umm did you ever participate in any riots?

Deloris ~ No

Me ~ Were you ever part of a group trying to prevent Segregation?

Deloris ~ No i didn't try to prevent it i tried to embrace it and make a difference i think all people are made equal so the thing was ignorance played a big part and segregation so i always look at it like, trying to make a difference, trying to bring people together, tu from all races, that was the biggest thing i learned from being a child because were all were all the same  

Me ~ So you agree with umm, basically your trying to say that you shouldn't ,fig- fight back with ignorance you should fight back with intelligence and kindness

Deloris ~ yes

Me ~ okay, umm would you say as you got older did things get better for you ?

Deloris ~ yes

Me ~ Could you state some of those things that got better for you?

Deloris ~ i decided to go to school for nursing, that became a big help because i got to meet different type of people, umm, i got married and my husband, i was a doll baby and queen to him so i was treated very well, but i went into the health feal because i knew people needed to be helped and to be able to un- understand because after i got older you know working in that field you hear the colored girl or the black girl or sometime the niger so i learned to embrace it and i learned to talk to people about it, eh, im just the same as you, eh, im just darker thats it and thats how i coped with that situation

Me ~ So when you were working there were racial remarks through to you but you embraces you were proud of who you were and you were a beautiful young black women who was doing what you needed to do to per, pursue in life

Deloris ~ yes

Me ~ okay as you were little in any, in any point in your life were you ever afraid or concerned of anything that had to do with segregation, like were you ever scared to go outside because of segregation or anything?

Deloris ~ eh, uh, eh eh fishtown you didn't want to get caught in after dark and all i could here is you better not go in that neighborhood (manly voice), but uh at one time Kensitin was the same way and uhhh, so i was scared to go into fishtown, but i did venture into Kensiten f and Westmorland and at the time it was rr- you know fights, so uhh i played bingo there for a long time like 10 years and they embraced me and that took care of me and it was a beautiful thing

Me ~ So Ms Deloris i have one final question for you earlier in the interview you stated that you umm, believe that you dont fight ignorance with ignorance you fight it with intelligence, umm so do you feel as though you segregation has gatten better over the years?

Deloris ~ Well yeah it got a lot better, it better than what it use to be because  you can go in just about anywhere you want in philadelphia without it being really racist so its much better

Me ~ Thank you Ms Daloris

Deloris ~ Your Welcome