{"id":2909,"date":"2026-06-08T14:54:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T18:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riches.cah.ucf.edu\/?p=2909"},"modified":"2026-06-08T14:54:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T18:54:59","slug":"oral-history-of-reginald-bernard-mcgill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riches.cah.ucf.edu\/?p=2909","title":{"rendered":"Oral History of Reginald Bernard McGill"},"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 Reginald Bernard McGill\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EX47rkunvdI?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 of Reginald Bernard McGill. The interview was conducted by Eric Thompson at Orlando City Hall on February 10, 2025. Some of the topics covered include growing up in Parramore and his family\u2019s move to Orlando, family business, church involvement, and early leadership, childhood challenges including crime and school integration, teachers who influenced him and early political aspirations, Black-owned businesses and the role of entrepreneurship in Parramore, drawing the map of Parramore and describing its boundaries, community support through churches, schools, and civic groups, women\u2019s leadership in education, health care, and community life, what community means to him and how it shaped his values, changes in Parramore over time and reflections on growth, present-day challenges including gentrification and controlled growth, Linton\u2019s Grocery and its importance as a neighborhood store, food access issues and Parramore as a food desert, development plans for Parramore and balancing community needs, personal experiences with racism and focusing on progress, encouraging civic involvement and volunteer support for Parramore, and Parramore\u2019s legacy and his personal connection to the neighborhood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An oral history interview of Reginald Bernard McGill. The interview was conducted by Eric Thompson at Orlando City Hall on February 10, 2025. Some of the topics covered include growing up in Parramore and his family\u2019s move to Orlando, family business, church involvement, and early leadership, childhood challenges including crime and school integration, teachers who&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-2909","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\/2909","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=2909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/riches.cah.ucf.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2910,"href":"https:\/\/riches.cah.ucf.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909\/revisions\/2910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riches.cah.ucf.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riches.cah.ucf.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riches.cah.ucf.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}