Oral History Interview of Gail Griffin
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Griffin, Gail et al., “Oral History Interview of Gail Griffin,” East St. Louis Culture, accessed July 2, 2025, https://eaststlouisculture.siue.edu/items/show/109.
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Title
Oral History Interview of Gail Griffin
Subject
Education
Environment
Fashion
Food
Music
Sports
Description
This interview was conducted by Roniya Cole, Danaja White, and Alyssa Gines at the Clyde C.Jordan Senior Center on July 12, 2016, with Gail Griffin. Gail talks about when she went to school as a child. She said that they ate soul food most of the time. She also talks about when she played sports and what they wore as children. Then she talks about how she feels about the environment. Finally, Gail talks about what type of music she liked to listen to and what she listens to now.
Creator
Griffin, Gail
Cole, Roniya
White, Danaja
Gines, Alyssa
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.
Language
English
Type
Oral History
Identifier
188
Oral History Item Type Metadata
Original Format
mp3
Duration
14:50
Interviewer
Cole, Roniya
Interviewee
Griffin, Gail
Location
Clyde C. Jordan Senior Center
Time Summary
| Gail Griffon | 0:00 | 2:50 | Ms. Gail said she loved school. | Education |
| Gail Griffon | 0:28 | 0:54 | . She had a masters degree, she wanted to follow her sister into nursing but she was very queezy about blood so that didnt work out, | Education |
| Gail Griffon | 0:04 | 0:23 | . we talked about her life at school , how she enjoyed it , she was close to her teachers. she wanted to go to college to make history come alive. | Education |
| Gail Griffon | 10:30 | 11:00 | .she hade a great childhood she hade aot of brutha and sister and she hade a great connection wth everybody | Education, Environment |
| Gail Griffon | 8:25 | 10:35 | Ms.Gail said that she doesn't know much about what the government is doing about the environment. She did say that she would love to clean up east st Louis because she hates how much the people of east st Louis litters. | Environment |
| Gail Griffon | 12:40 | 13:10 | Ms.Gail said that you would have to pay a fine. | Environment |
| Gail Griffon | 2:36 | 2:58 | she said our country is so address & she also said that she checkes our water to make she it is clean . when she see people littering and they do not want to pick it up she goes outside and pick it p herself and she seen people yesterday at mcdonalds and when they was finish eatting they threw the hole tray outside there window | Environment |
| Gail Griffon | 2:14 | 2:30 | when she see people littering and they dont want to pick it up she go outside and pick it up herself. | Environment |
| Gail Griffon | 9:30 | 10:00 | she listen to this talk show and this talk show talks about our people and after that talk she thinks our people is nasty and not respectful enough, | Environment |
| Gail Griffon | 9:30 | 10:00 | she listen to this talk show and it talks about our people and so after that talk she think our people has no respect and she thinks there nasty. | Environment |
| Gail Griffon | 4:45 | 6:40 | Ms.Gail said that fashion was way different then than it is now. | Fashion |
| Gail Griffon | 6:01 | 6:30 | . she weared a wide petti coat . her favorite shoes wear black & brown . | Fashion |
| Gail Griffon | 6:01 | 6:30 | she weared a wide petti coat. her favorite shoes wear black & brown. | Fashion |
| Gail Griffon | 1:34 | 1:59 | . she likes gospel music , she likes wide fetty coats back then, she likes her hair color to match her coat , | Fashion, Music |
| Gail Griffon | 2:50 | 3:45 | Ms.Gail said that the food that she ate as a child was soul food. | Food |
| Gail Griffon | 3:45 | 4:45 | Ms.Gail said that she loved music as a child and that she enjoys Gospel music now as an adult. | Music |
| Gail Griffon | 6:40 | 8:25 | Ms.Gail said that she was doing sports in school. she said she enjoyed track and field. she also loved baseball. | Sports |
| Gail Griffon | 2:14 | 2:30 | she ranned track, her brother became a football player , she played baseball for fun & she enjoyed it alot | Sports |
| Gail Griffon | 2:14 | 2:30 | she ranned track her brother became a football player she played baseball for fun and she enjoyed it alot | Sports |
| Gail Griffon | 8:00 | 8:30 | there where a sepreration between girls and boys during there practices of sports. | Sports |
| Gail Griffon | 8:00 | 8:30 | there where a sepreration between girls and boys during there practice of sports . | Sports |
| Gail Griffon | 10:35 | 12:40 | Ms.Gail said that she had an awesome childhood. She enjoyed being a child and enjoyed all the fun that she had with her family. | |
| Gail Griffon | 13:10 | 13:30 | Ms.Gail said that hospitals was different then than they are now. | |
| Gail Griffon | 13:43 | 14:14 | Ms.Gail said that transportation was way different then than it is now. it was harder for her to get around then. | |
| Gail Griffon | 14:21 | 14:50 | that was end or our interview with Ms.Gail Giffon. she said that she enjoyed our time. that concluded our interview. |