Miss Jessie Mae Parker,, 2023 January 15

14 Video Interview | 14 Transcript

Interviewee discusses the history of East End; building a family home and brick houses in East End; local churches; growing up, family relations and community life; employment in drycleaners, nursing, and longshoremen; shrimping; food and cooking in the community; schooling, integration, high school football; neighborhood businesses and barbershops; the port takeover of East End and neglect of neighborhood sidewalks; community activism and Freeport East Enders Humanitarian Award; girl scouts; leisure activities; segregation and racial discrimination; raising and preparing young people; East End legacy and community decline; East End Family organization; navigating the legal system, fighting against eminent domain and resisting Port takeover of East End.