Search Interviews

This is an interview with my grandmother about her experience in Detroit while the riots were taking place.

One Small Step conversation partners Alex North (33) and Gene Lauria (34) talk about how immigration in their families shaped their beliefs and talk through Alex's dilemma of whether to send his child to public or private school.

I asked my mom about her life lessons and her childhood.

My Mormor which is Swedish for grandma tells me about her favorite thanksgiving traditions. Including picking up her relatives from Detroit central station when it was still in business and how she loved watching the train come in.

a brief rap up with Michael knight about the beauty of hip hop.

Seto You, age 92/93 or 97/98, is interviewed by his son, Ed You, age 26, about his early days in the USA. He arrived from China in 1916, worked as a cook in this country well into his 80's. He...

Hazel Gomez (36) interviews her husband, Mark Crain (33), about his racial identity, his work with Dream of Detroit, and his hopes for his children.

Gloria and Beryl discuss Gloria's early life in Detroit, Michigan

This is a story from my grandmother who speaks about the suicide and life of her second child and eldest son Jesse Junior Gardner lll

How does the child of immigrant parents become a greatly respected and successful businessman, with nothing but diligence and hard work? On November 28, 2017, Jade Mars interviews her father Michael Karlin in Beverly Hills California. He will talk about...

I talk to my friend from dance, Julia, who was adopted from Russia with her twin sister Andrea. We talk about her being an immigrant at the age of 15 months and what she remembers about Russia.

Buck Scott and his history of Detroit

Talked about coming to America with my mother and about her life besically.

In this interview, recorded November 28 2022 in Denver, Colorado Ezri Peterson (15) interviews her grandmother Betty Peterson about the origins of her side of the family. Betty shares that her grandparents had come from Russia. She also says that...

My mother’s struggles with the fall of the Soviet Union and the wars in Georgia. Then the struggles she had with immigration and language barriers. Finally how she overcame them now.

Part of an interview on 12/27/2022 of Ione Shuster, age 103, by Bonnie Shuster, age 67, was lost when recording stopped in the middle. This supplement picks up the missing portion.

My grandfather was an immigrant during WWII. This is the story of his life.

History of the Detroit riots. What was it like living though it.

Me and my grandma takes about the Detroit Riots of 1967

Saberah Azizuddin (68) interviews her husband, Farooq Azizuddin (69), about his life. Farooq talks about his family, his time in the Black Panther party, his conversion to Islam, and more.

In this interview, conducted on Thanksgiving, 2015 in a suburb of Cleveland, Dylan Caine (16) asks his mother, Shelly Pesick-Caine (56), about her quintessentially American upbringing in the suburbs of Detroit. Born into a caring and hardworking family of six,...

Interview about a white worker caught in the news about the Detroit race riots.

In this interview conducted on Nov. 26 in Manhattan Beach, California, Maddie Komatinsky interviews her grandmother, Anne, about her childhood and growing up. Anne shares thoughts, stories and memories of growing up in Wales, moving to he US, meeting friends...

I interview my mom, Holly, for my Study of Fiction course at UDM

One Small Step partners Perry Hoskins (62) and Melissa Dodge (37) talk about how their upbringings shaped their moral and political beliefs. They also share their hopes for and concerns about the future of the United States.