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This is an interview
with Derryle Peace
on January 6, 2010 and we're in the
uh...
new alumni building on campus of Texas A&M University
Commerce, Texas
My name is Jim Conrad I'm head of special collections and
and Dr. Shanon Carter assistant professor of language here
alone
of
this will become part of the ellis three and a m actual conversation in writing
of programs and projects the we won't thank you for
fading amount was a and uh...
thought it was about
of your recollections of
obedient
uh...
uh... we usually like to start by asking where and when you were born aka
going on
may third nineteen fifty two and l stresses eliminated the also a
can you tell me
of where you grew up in maryland's here
i grew up poor
decent recruited
that the two terminology from our community p some people call in our part
uh...
who again
and insult segregated
at that time
my neighborhood this fall so no one has not it'll ticket but album
faithfully develop
i grew up in that area
is
it's a good thing here is the local airport
alittle
uh... near
mockingbird
the or coca-cola plant would wake up in the mornings marlboro turnout
through the dallas morning news and we could smell the bread being baked
atlanta bakery
at the local call the planet
actually our house was gone
flat plant was ballpark flight plan
for the old friends
faroe islands along before southwest airlines all planes
actually came
corporal punishment will light arrive house
someone who will product that metal woods
my neighborhood the border is
lemonade
mockingbird
lois lane and so it's a pocket it was uh...
regionally
part of the neighborhood was an all-black neighborhood
night in the early sixties though
may prove it
our neighborhood
actually laws because
and there is the realtors university
dr ended
we move
invaded the whole neighborhood became pretty much makes me
so that the return of the printout because their parents with network does
not want to go to washington dc
we grew up in a time were our teachers
which i think we're good at that time
they always say
were preparing to you
for integration because in her lifetime
he said to be you will go to school
with kids who are not
it's go ahead
we'd always
that's interesting
africans about would get together when we talk about that
we were prepared
because i think is a policy
you will be able to come
and we go back now with the help of god would have to and later on
found out that what we would do it
with celebrated
we're taking
even though i was in the fourth grade we were taking we were using the six great
english book
we will live in alamat callahan
the early binary system bill didn't know he was teaching us computer science
we don't get
which school whether that's cool seventy years what's interesting about jim hat
is that in the city of gals conscious but still relevant
there only to julia has occurred here
one with the west allis quarter
you have a blows
pearls he anticipated southall eleven even one movement
they were
miles from those
so as a bigger i want to booker t_ washington high school which is now
imports magnet school bequest district doubts
that's horrible learned
that my neighborhood
and island village
i want to school with kids who live
that neighborhood
i grew up in a neighborhood didn't have apartment
i didn't go to school with indicates
who lived in the parks we have public health care
getting too big to us
you know forum
habitat
hero what influence did the civil rights movement have on you
well going on in the sixty s and all of the year
protest in them
legislation that went to their own grows
i was affected by all of us were affected by it
for good thing for me and for probably a lot of my friends that we had its
windfall going
the talkers to forgive you
at itgi
everybody
being spirited people
who spread on the
who through things at me
who called me bigger well signal staring at the bus stop
that was not
the whole world
mathai was specific to people
don't be well
nakia
to live network to live a life
or a angry at everybody
nuts
but the fact is that it denies he is
caved in and see if there are at the home front line
yet there is that
you can easily see your as you heard euler exterior midnight when the talks
started happening and that was the p_s_a_ and the northeast club one
hundred july that i've seen a lot of his talks happened that novel i actually
w involved with them because
pretty much withstood my existence was
on this campus console
by it
majority of my spirits and commerce
had been campus
now
at that time
the conversion happen
dinars whose call the whole
in
and we would cost of that and we may eight consul
why does why does it have to be called the whole
why is it
we are in the answer
betraying comes through and blocks the trek that you can't get out of the north
st
interest right now
across the room for
will will mostly angles that was
calling it the whole no because we
it was just a bit actually there
slowly but surely
people sit in a wet
we really we really need to stop calling that because
because not turned repeat it
it's what we heard it was called
who call it that i don't know originated from the black i mean i don't know where
it came from
would recognize
that is
for the great term we need to do different
howell i don't remember how
the main north community
go columns restored colin the basque
done
off-campus girls out there are some things happening and i would like acti
understands how they handle it
program him
putting white students with black students move toward things like that
eating a banana operatives appear in the second one of needs it first
would it have been home one of our here
on three because i needed to do something and become
who experience
friday
to bitterly
uh... we group sessions were prepared
so won't be opposite
ethnicity
uh... slept together it together
where something
about the experiment
welcome one of those who have volunteered because i wanted to gain
something from it
what
i was going to come out of the with a better person
the