Lexi Gordon

Title

Lexi Gordon (Abstract)

Interviewee/ Narrator

Lexi Gordon

Interviewer

Bailey Pezzella

Date

February 20, 2024

Location of the Interview

Zoom

Length

42 minutes, 6 seconds

Abstract

The Black Lives Matter Oral History Project is being conducted through the month of February in order to celebrate and collect told histories from people who were alive for and affected by the Black Lives Matter Movement. For this project, Bailey Pezzella chose to interview her middle and high school friend, Lexi Gordon. Lexi’s experience as a young person during the height of the Black Lives Matter Movement is important because it can give a perspective of someone who was actively shaped by the movement and their story can be collected and saved for the rest of history to hear and understand.
Bailey chose to interview Lexi because she views her as someone who has a lot to say, and knew the movement greatly shaped how Lexi views the world today. Throughout the interview, the two friends joke around and get sidetracked several times but the relationship between the interviewer and the interviewee creates an environment that is comfortable enough to discuss heavy topics such as race relations and growing up Black in America. Lexi explains in many different ways how being so young and easily influenced during the time of the movement was both harmful and helpful, but really did help her find her voice not only as a Black woman, but in the greater world.