From “ Greatest ” to “ Z ” 4 generations

1. From “Greatest” to “Z” 4 generations Oral History Report By: Ja’Corey Hagger

2. Ulace Jackson Salters January 1, 1918 - April 15, 2010. The greatest generation 10 children 25 grandchildren; 35 great grandchildren 7 great great grandchildren My great grandmother was born after the great depression the youngest of 16 born in Cordell, Georgia. She wasn’t born a slave as some of her older brothers and sisters. She only completed school up to about 5th grade. She was a share cropper. She was married at 14 and had two children by the times she was 17. She came to Jacksonville Florida where she worked on the railroad. She was not allowed to sit on certain parts of the trains. Her husband's went missing and she believed he was lynched. She was also a “days worker” cleaned up “whites” house.

4. Generation Baby boomer Grandparents Bill & Connie Evans February 26, 1950 - present My grandmother and her siblings were born in the “separate but not equal” period. All the schools were segregated at this point in time. My grandmother and her siblings set around the television and watched the “I have a dream speech” by Dr. Martin Luther King. They also boycotted busses and marched in the streets for equal rights.

6. AUNTS AND MOM Generation X My mother and aunts were not born in slavery, they were the first generations of blacks to actually integrate schools. It wasn’t a lot of blacks in the classroom with whites. They were held to higher expectations if they had a black teacher. DEBRINA, LATONYA, MICHELLE, LACHELLE There was never any black history taught in schools. They were able to catch the bus and ride in the front. Although slavery was over and segregation not allowed, some store owners still didn’t allowed blacks to come into their store. At the age of about 5 my mother and aunts moved to a neighborhood where they actually had white neighbors.

8. Name: Ja’Corey Lichelle Blakely Father: Lee Costa Blakely II Mother: Michelle Devonne Freeman Birth date: Nov 20, 1987 Weight: 6 pounds 1 ounce Time : 5:58 pm Place: Jacksonville, Florida @ St. Vincent's Hospital Generation Y

9. PRE – K

10. 3RD GRADE 2ND GRADE KINDERGARTEN 1ST GRADE

11. CHURCH AWARDS SCHOOL AWARDS AND TROPHIES U.S. Congresswoman Corrine Brown

12. HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR YEAR 06’ FRESHMAN YEAR 02’-03’ JUNIOR YEAR 04’- 05’

13. I went to school throughout my entire life with kids of all color and I will never know what it truly felt like to be a person of color in a world that is segregated, because the times have changed . There is no excuse to say this generation of color can do something. There have been many black governors and other positions of leadership during my time and I do believe that one day we will have a black president. I graduated from the same high school as my mother but the only difference is that the whites and blacks were evenly number if not more blacks.

14. CLASS ANNOUNCEMENTS & HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA

15. Oct 26, 2009 Then moved to Okinawa, Japan

16. Generation Z My sister Zakiya Nichelle Mccalsiter Born August 18, 1997 was born into a generation where there is not only no segregation but a generation that has produce the first African American President – Barack Obama .

17. We (African American) have over-come so many changes over the different generations and my family is a living proof of the changes My President is “Black”