This video speaks about the life of Norma Jefferies. It follows her upbringing in Scranton and continues to speak on the adolescence and career after school. The video then moves on to discuss how Scranton’s center city housing development affected Norma’s family. The video also speaks on racism in Scranton and how it affected Norma.

         This video was useful to our research as it showed the importance of educators to the population they teach. The video also briefly spoke on the racisms Norma Jefferies faced when trying to find a job, and set the scene to understand the mood of Dr. Mitchell’s hire to the University of Scranton.

This video provides a story of immigrants, Ushu and Prisca Mukelo, and their journey from Dominican Republic to Scranton, PA. The Mukelo’s spoke about their time as refugees and the challenges they faced when they came to the United States. To conclude their interview, they discuss how the topic of racism is not prevalent enough on the national scale and they wish to change that

         This video was important to our research as it shows how Dr. Mitchell was able to succeed in Scranton, because it is so welcoming. Though, the Mukelo’s face racism in the country, they still feel welcome in Scranton, which really says a lot about Mitchell’s success. This also aided our research in understanding the challenges Dr. Mitchell faced based on race, not in Scranton, but in the atmosphere of the United States.

Carmen Castillo discussed her experience moving to Scranton because of her job. She explained the process of building community connections that made her feel welcomed in her home city, as well as detailing the difficulties in finding people who connected to her background initially.

This is useful to our research because it highlights how the process of moving into a community and needing to form all new connections can be difficult.