Interview Questions concerning Segregation/Integration



Interview Questions concerning Segregation/Integration

(Many questions taken from )

Remember to be polite and not to pry for answers. Don’t try to write everything down. Get down the key words and phrases and try to remember the rest for later. Feel free to ask follow up questions to their responses if you want to and you feel it would be appropriate. Thank them for their time and answers.

1) Growing up, when did you recognize that there were differences in skin color? Did somebody tell you?

2) Do you remember any books, movies, signs, newspapers, etc. that discussed racial issues? What were they like and how did you feel?

3) Do you have any personal experiences with segregation? (segregated against) How did you personally deal with racial segregation?

4) Did you ever confront any discrimination around you? Why or why not? What was the result?

5) What types of legal segregation existed in your community?

6) Did anything violent erupt because of segregation? How did the black community respond? How did the white community respond?

7) Did young people respond differently from the older community regarding race? Explain. Did women respond differently than men?

8) Were there any local demonstrations, sit-ins, that you remember or participated in? Explain there result.

9) Did anybody you know participate in a civil rights organization? What did they accomplish or try to accomplish?

10) Did your church/religious group get involved in any way with civil rights activities? Explain.

11) Did you attend a segregated school? Did segregated schools have any activities with each other?

12) How were white/black interactions at integrated schools in your area? Fights? Friendships?

13) Did you have any/many interracial friends? Why or why not?

14) What were your feelings toward Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X?

15) What was the greatest accomplishment of the civil rights movement?

16) What was the greatest failure of the civil rights movement?

17) In your opinion, what else can be done to improve civil rights issues?

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