Travon Bradley
4/16/16
AMH2020
1319
The person I decided to interview is a retired Command Sargent Major in the US Army and is also my grandfather. George Bradley Sr. was born on November 1st, 1949 in Sanford, Florida. He was the fourth of seven siblings and vaguely remembers anything other than plating outside with his siblings and getting cookies for one cent. While conducting this interview I realized that many things that were socially acceptable during his childhood differ from mine and would be seen as a social taboo in present day America. He says that growing up him and his siblings were never sitting around the house like the kids of today. “Back in my day, we weren’t allowed to sit around the house because our mother always found …show more content…
One interaction that he remembers as being the one of many that stood out was when he was a teenager in high school. Him and his brother were walking from football practice and stopped at the corner store to get some cookies and something to drink, which at that time was only about a nickel. When they walked in there was only a Caucasian woman shopping and the store owner standing behind the counter. They went on to get what they had come for when the woman screams and runs up to the counter to tell the store owner that my grandfather’s brother winked at her. The store owner then yelled racial slurs at them from the counter and told them that they needed to leave now. My grandfather then told him that they just came for a few things and would leave shortly. The store owner felt disrespected because my grandfather, a black man, talked back to him so he pulled a shot gun from under the counter and threatened to put a whole in both of their chests if they don’t get out now. To paint a better picture of what my grandfather looked like during his teenage years I asked my grandmother. She says he was about six feet and two inches tall and had a very strong build from playing football. From my knowledge of how racism was in the 50’s and 60’s I believe his …show more content…
Board of Education in 1954. All legally-enforced public segregation was abolished by the Civil Rights Act of 1964. That being said my grandfather turned 18 in 1967, so it’s safe to say that he grew up with segregation and was given an opportunity to get away from it when the law was passed a few years before he turned 18. From what he say the law was never respected of even followed in his town and he had mixed feelings about whether life got worse or better. He always had hope that things would make a drastic change for the better because he paid attention to the civil rights activists and was a strong follower of Martin Luther King Jr. Shortly after turning 18 he joined the US Army and he worked in infantry for about seven years. During this time he encounter what he says is the most significant event of his life when he is in the Vietnam War. He doesn’t go into depth about it but he says that he had to jump out of planes onto land without getting shot and killed by the enemy and was living in horrible conditions. After doing some research on the war I found that around the time he joined the army the US was losing badly and became desperate. The text reads ”After several attacks upon them, it was decided that US Air Force bases needed more protection as the South
4/16/16
AMH2020
1319
The person I decided to interview is a retired Command Sargent Major in the US Army and is also my grandfather. George Bradley Sr. was born on November 1st, 1949 in Sanford, Florida. He was the fourth of seven siblings and vaguely remembers anything other than plating outside with his siblings and getting cookies for one cent. While conducting this interview I realized that many things that were socially acceptable during his childhood differ from mine and would be seen as a social taboo in present day America. He says that growing up him and his siblings were never sitting around the house like the kids of today. “Back in my day, we weren’t allowed to sit around the house because our mother always found …show more content…
One interaction that he remembers as being the one of many that stood out was when he was a teenager in high school. Him and his brother were walking from football practice and stopped at the corner store to get some cookies and something to drink, which at that time was only about a nickel. When they walked in there was only a Caucasian woman shopping and the store owner standing behind the counter. They went on to get what they had come for when the woman screams and runs up to the counter to tell the store owner that my grandfather’s brother winked at her. The store owner then yelled racial slurs at them from the counter and told them that they needed to leave now. My grandfather then told him that they just came for a few things and would leave shortly. The store owner felt disrespected because my grandfather, a black man, talked back to him so he pulled a shot gun from under the counter and threatened to put a whole in both of their chests if they don’t get out now. To paint a better picture of what my grandfather looked like during his teenage years I asked my grandmother. She says he was about six feet and two inches tall and had a very strong build from playing football. From my knowledge of how racism was in the 50’s and 60’s I believe his …show more content…
Board of Education in 1954. All legally-enforced public segregation was abolished by the Civil Rights Act of 1964. That being said my grandfather turned 18 in 1967, so it’s safe to say that he grew up with segregation and was given an opportunity to get away from it when the law was passed a few years before he turned 18. From what he say the law was never respected of even followed in his town and he had mixed feelings about whether life got worse or better. He always had hope that things would make a drastic change for the better because he paid attention to the civil rights activists and was a strong follower of Martin Luther King Jr. Shortly after turning 18 he joined the US Army and he worked in infantry for about seven years. During this time he encounter what he says is the most significant event of his life when he is in the Vietnam War. He doesn’t go into depth about it but he says that he had to jump out of planes onto land without getting shot and killed by the enemy and was living in horrible conditions. After doing some research on the war I found that around the time he joined the army the US was losing badly and became desperate. The text reads ”After several attacks upon them, it was decided that US Air Force bases needed more protection as the South