Bridges Digital Archive: Audio and Video Recordings

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Document Type

Oral History

Publication Date

10-22-2021

Abstract

In this interview, Sharon Palmer and her mother Marlene Daugherty are the guests. Once going over family history through overlapping dialogue, the main topic of the interview becomes Frances Grice. Grice was the aunt of Palmer, sister to Daugherty, and had made important impacts in San Bernardino. Though a private person and struggled with making friends with women, Grice made resources available to the community. Grice opened Operation Second Chance and the School of Technology in San Bernardino as well as other various businesses. The two organizations helped the community with opportunities that could help them better their lives through learning. Grice spent much of her time at California State University San Bernardino and became involved with politics and the Civil Rights movement. Aside from working with the newspaper, the Precinct Reporter, and spending time with her sisters and nieces, Grice loved to travel. Another aunt, Valerie Pope, had also been involved with the community, like fighting for welfare rights. Valerie also had a love of cooking, which the interviewees remember fondly. Samuel Daugherty, brother to Palmer and son to Daugherty, joins to talk about Grice and Pope as well as memories of school. After talking about the NAACP, Samuel Daugherty left and the topic of Plamer being the Ms. All-American City continued. Daugherty then spoke on Grice’s connections to men that helped her role in the community and her sister’s lack of female friends. Joining the Loveland Church, Will Marshall, the Vial of Life, and Margaret Hill are other brief discussions in the interview. The women further discuss Grice, whose privacy would keep her from speaking on her health issues. When the topic of business returns, Daughetry and her daughter explain the loss of Operation Second Chance and the School of Technology took a toll on Grice. She never recovered from it as it was what her life revolved around. Following a mention of how the women wanted Grice to be remembered, the interview ends with Daugherty reciting her poem, “The Race of Mankind”.

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