{"id":2915,"date":"2026-06-08T14:57:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T18:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riches.cah.ucf.edu\/?p=2915"},"modified":"2026-06-08T14:57:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T18:57:00","slug":"oral-history-of-reverend-rollie-murray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riches.cah.ucf.edu\/?p=2915","title":{"rendered":"Oral History of Reverend Rollie Murray"},"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 Reverend Rollie Murray\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XUamrAydxaY?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 Reverend Rollie Murray. The interview was conducted by Eric Thompson at the Callahan Neighborhood Center in Orlando, Florida, on March 8, 2025. Some of the topics covered include growing up in Chattahoochee, Florida, and his path to ministry, educational background from elementary school to Florida A&amp;M University, participating in track and field during his school years, businesses in Parramore when he arrived in 1984, types of work common among Parramore residents, the role of local businesses and food access challenges, what community means to him, challenges facing Parramore including housing and affordability, the role of churches in Parramore and his church\u2019s community programs, women\u2019s leadership in Parramore including business owners and public figures, how Parramore has changed over the past 40 years, and Parramore\u2019s legacy as a historically strong and self-reliant community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An oral history interview with Reverend Rollie Murray. The interview was conducted by Eric Thompson at the Callahan Neighborhood Center in Orlando, Florida, on March 8, 2025. Some of the topics covered include growing up in Chattahoochee, Florida, and his path to ministry, educational background from elementary school to Florida A&amp;M University, participating in track&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-2915","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\/2915","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=2915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/riches.cah.ucf.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2916,"href":"https:\/\/riches.cah.ucf.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2915\/revisions\/2916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riches.cah.ucf.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riches.cah.ucf.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riches.cah.ucf.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}