{"id":2887,"date":"2026-06-08T13:06:57","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T17:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riches.cah.ucf.edu\/?p=2887"},"modified":"2026-06-08T13:06:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T17:06:57","slug":"oral-history-of-georgine-alice-walton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riches.cah.ucf.edu\/?p=2887","title":{"rendered":"Oral History of Georgine Alice Walton"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Oral History of Georgine Alice Walton\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VSXPhllf1mU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An oral history interview with Georgine Walton. The interview was conducted by Eric Thompson at the Grand Avenue Neighborhood Center in Orlando, Florida, on April 25, 2025. Some of the topics covered include growing up in Parramore and her mother\u2019s role as a nurse, family history in Parramore and her mother\u2019s legacy at ORMC, her education journey and attending integrated schools, her sister Dr. Martha Williams-Glenn joining the interview to share her education story, entrepreneurship in Parramore including family businesses and social clubs, work in Parramore including domestic labor, teaching, and bartering, defining Parramore\u2019s boundaries and community identity, community challenges in the past including segregation and integration, churches in Parramore and the role of women as community leaders, how Parramore has changed over time and concerns about gentrification, programs supporting Parramore today and the importance of community pride, Parramore\u2019s legacy and what it means to her, and her closing reflections including family memories and stories of community figures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An oral history interview with Georgine Walton. The interview was conducted by Eric Thompson at the Grand Avenue Neighborhood Center in Orlando, Florida, on April 25, 2025. Some of the topics covered include growing up in Parramore and her mother\u2019s role as a nurse, family history in Parramore and her mother\u2019s legacy at ORMC, her&hellip;","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oral-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riches.cah.ucf.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riches.cah.ucf.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riches.cah.ucf.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riches.cah.ucf.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riches.cah.ucf.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/riches.cah.ucf.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2888,"href":"https:\/\/riches.cah.ucf.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2887\/revisions\/2888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riches.cah.ucf.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riches.cah.ucf.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riches.cah.ucf.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}