My Family Interview Questions

My interviewees included my grandfather Gregory Mears Bailey Sr., my grandmother, Martha Bailey, my father Gregory Mears Bailey Jr., and my mother Rhonda Hale. I selected to do my father and his parents because the Bailey side of my family predominantly raised me. Although my mother played a role in my life for a time before my parents’ divorce I wanted to also include her side of the family. All of the interviews were conducted over the phone due to distance issues of me being in Ohio and the rest of my family being in Maryland. Overall, my family has primarily been born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. However my grandfather’s mother, and my great-grandmother, moved to Baltimore from South Carolina to study nursing, education was the only …show more content…
She worked for the Maryland State Health Department doing research and also had a part time job at a local drug store. My great-grandmother could hold a conversation about subjects of science and mathematics without a degree. I am studying Mathematics and my goal is to do mathematical research in biology with the Environmental Protection Agency. Where not many African American had a degree I find it amazing that my great-grandmother could work alongside scientists without carrying a degree it says a lot about her …show more content…
My mother was eighteen and my father was nineteen about to turn twenty. My father had joined the Army after spending time at Morgan State University. Still young they would depend on my grandparents for support even with the birth of their first girl Latoya Bailey on July 15, 1987. By July 1988 my father received orders to move the family to Honolulu Hawaii. It was here the rest of the Bailey clan would be—Aaron, Melani, David, myself, Xavier, and Gabriel. With eight children the paycheck from the Army would not support everything we needed. My father took up extra jobs and applied for governmental support to provide for the