Bridges Digital Archive: Audio and Video Recordings

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Document Type

Oral History

Publication Date

2-24-2023

Abstract

In this interview, Elaine Ford-Sterling is the guest. She attended San Gorgonio High School from 1971 to 1973. Ford-Sterling recalls joining the Black Student Union in order to have a space where she feels comfortable. Then, she speaks of the Home of Neighborly Service, which was a sort of Black Student Union but out of school and in students’ neighborhoods. The riots are something she mentions were a thing she will never forget and were terrible. Eventually, there was unity between schools due to sports and petty rivalry. To end the interview, Ford-Sterling then talks about needing to swim across the pool to graduate high school. To this day she cannot swim and to graduate she sort of only floated across.

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