Tracy Shaughnessy and Gail Mondoux
Recorded
June 7, 2023
Archived
June 7, 2023
35:03 minutes
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Id:
ddv002517
Description
Tracy Shaughnessy [no age given] discusses with her childhood friend Gail Mondoux [no age given] her tumultuous childhood being adopted by alcoholic parents and her experience as a white student attending a predominately black school through Seattle's desegregation bussing programs.Subject Log / Time Code
TS describes her childhood growing up in Seattle, Tacoma, and Dash Point Washington and being an adopted child of alcoholic parents.
TS lived by the water in Dash Point and describes how the water was her refugee from her tumultuous household.
TS remembers a moment she witnessed, as a child, her mother having a nervous break down after her father left their household. GM notes the times she would rescue TS from her home.
TS was apart of a desegregation program in her 6th grade year. She would travel from the her predominately white school of Dash Point Elementary School to a predominately black school, Hilltop Heritage Middle School, in Tacoma.
TS recalls the disparities in education between Hilltop Heritage Middle School and Dash Point Elementary School.
TS describes her first day of school at Hilltop Heritage Middle School.
TS recalls the bullying she faced in school, which she contributes to her being white.
they considered the school in her neighborhood to be less than the one she was being bussed into.
TS gives advice for who experience feelings of isolation and disconnect in their environments.
Participants
- Tracy Shaughnessy
- Gail Mondoux