Oral History Interview of Maxine Issac
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Maxine, Issac and McKenney, Serenity, “Oral History Interview of Maxine Issac,” East St. Louis Culture, accessed February 19, 2026, https://eaststlouisculture.siue.edu/items/show/108.
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Title
Oral History Interview of Maxine Issac
Subject
Education
Food
Music
Description
In this oral history interview, conducted by Serenity McKenney at the Clyde C. Jordan Senior Center on July 12, 2016, Maxine Isaac discusses how she and her friends were the first black children to attend an all-white school. Although she was very brief about the subject of food, she talks about how she enjoyed the subject of math very much. She and her black friends did very well in school, and there were also few of the students who graduated. She talked about music, how her brother was a jazz player and has his name on the hall of fame of jazz. She says she is very proud of him.
Creator
Maxine, Issac
McKenney, Serenity
Publisher
East St. Louis Culture
Date
20160712
Rights
East St. Louis Culture by eaststlouisculture.org is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Format
Mp3
Language
English
Type
Oral History
Identifier
187
Oral History Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Mp3
Duration
11:15
Interviewer
McKenney, Serenity
Interviewee
Isaac, Maxine
Location
Clyde C. Jordan Senior Center
Time Summary
| Maxine Isaac | 0 | 26 | School was good favorite subject was math | Education |
| Maxine Isaac | 0 | 0 | Going to school in East St Louis and not graduating. | Education |
| Maxine Isaac | 0 | 0 | Having a good school experience in East St Louis and being some of the first black kids to attend East Side. | Education |
| Maxine Isaac | 0 | 0 | "Not too much hasn't changed overtime" | Education |
| Maxine Isaac | 0 | 0 | It was good, I mostly liked math. | Education |
| Maxine Isaac | 15 seconds | 3minutes and 23.508 seconds | why did Maxine Isaac like blues music? | Education |
| Maxine Isaac | 0 | 11 | Getting to know the interviewee. | Education, Environment, Fashion, Food, Music, Sports |
| Maxine Isaac | 15 seconds | 2 minutes and 30 seconds | i would say she grew up in a very rough place and she also made the best of it | Environment |
| Maxine Isaac | 0 | 0 | "Yeah" | Fashion |
| Maxine Isaac | 8 MINUTES | 8 MINUTES AND 15 SECONDS | SHE LIKES THAT THE STYLE HASN'T CHANGED MUCH | Fashion |
| Maxine Isaac | 0 | 0 | Greens and beans and cornbread, no special dishes | Food |
| Maxine Isaac | 0 | 0 | Regular restaurants serving soul food | Food |
| Maxine Isaac | 3 minutes and 30 seconds | 5 minutes and 31 seconds | she liked eating a certain dish every sunday | Food |
| Maxine Isaac | 0 | 0 | Blues, BB King | Music |
| Maxine Isaac | 0 | 0 | Brother in law was a jazz musician (Eddy Fisher) | Music |
| Maxine Isaac | 5 minutes an 50 seconds | 7 minutes and 31 seconds | she had famous brother in law and he played blues | Music |
| Maxine Isaac | 3.935 | 2m 04.231 | Its was a black white thing it changed much over the years | Sports |