MLK Civil Rights Era Interview Questions - Interview...

Interview Questions
1. Growing up during segregation, can you recall an early
incident when you recognized a difference of treatment on
account of color?
2. Do you remember friends or individuals in your community
being discriminated against under legal segregation? For
instance in education, public accommodations or
employment? How did this make you feel?
3. Was any of this treatment ever violent? If so, how did the
black community respond and how did the white community
respond? Were the responses to the discrimination different
depending on race? Were there differences between how
young people and older people responded?
4. Describe any involvement of your church in civil rights. Was
there support for speaking out against legal segregation in
your church? How was that demonstrated?
5. If you attended a segregated school, how did it compare with