Interview 2

1. What is your name? Maiden and Marriage (if applicable) Doris L. Davis

2. Where were you born? Kosciusko, MS

3. Where did you grow up? Kosciusko, MS

4. What were your parents names and occupations? Cleveland Fox worked in a factory Globeweiss Mosella Fox Lewis Head Start teacher

5. Do you have any siblings? Yes or No, names?

2 Debroh Fox Young Mary Fox Rand

2 Anthony Lewis Fox Cleveland Lee Fox

6. What was your life like growing up as a black girl in _________?

Pretty good life because her family kept her in church and her father was a very hard worker.

7. Did you ever encounter racism? Explain?

Yes, I went to school when it was integrating during the 1960’s and 1970’s

8. What privileges or setbacks do you feel that you experienced growing up a black female in the North/South?

They let white people pass to the next grade made black kids repeat first grade if they could not read .

Tension in the store as a kid\

9. What, if anything, do you remember your parents telling you about race?

White people were prejudice and that at one time they could not attend school with white students.

10. What did your parents tell you or instill in you regarding being a woman, specifically a black woman?

My father told my that I was beautiful and that every man who wanted something from me would tell me the same. Daddy told her to get her education so she could fall back on that if she ever married and her husband left her.

11. Did you attend school? Yes or No, why or why not?
Yes, because I wanted a high school diploma and to walk the field with the rest of my class

12. Talk a little bit about those days...

White children had the opportunity to go to the bathroom ahead of black children and given extra credit to receive a better grade.

13. What was it like in school for you as a black female? 

Well it was still prejudice

White kids had the opportunity to write on the board and be more active than black students in the classrooms.

White students would hit on black students and call them out of their names.

14. Did you graduate and attend college? [Ask questions here to get more info regarding education ect.]

Yes, I went to Holmes CC for  Office Technology

Mississippi State Office Systems Technology

Jackson State Master in Science Social Work

15. Did you get married?  To who?  When?  [Ask about the circumstances]

WC Lynwood Oct 17, 1987 fell in love

George Davis April 24, 1995 praying to God for a Godly man.

16. Did you have any children? Yes or No? How many?  Why?  Was this a choice or just happend?  If no children, you could ask them why they chose not to or was it medical reasons.

DeAntae Lynwood

Desiree Lynwood

Kenyata Davis

17. Where did they work as an adult

US Navy

18. Ask them about their adult life and what it was like living as a black woman? 

Military prejudice and there is a no ask no tell policy on homosexuality.

Worked you to death if you are dedicated to your job and have the ability to take on multiple tasks.

19.  Ask them if there are any specific stories that they would like to share regarding their adulthood life and being a black woman

Black women have to work harder than white counterpart

Black women have to marry a blue collar man because a lot of men are in jail, dead, or they don’t have the same educational level as a lot of black women.

Love goes beyond boundaries such as education economic status and political statues

20.  What were their relationships like with other women?  Specifically ask about white and black

women.

I have good relationships with black women but I don’t trust them because they will go with your spouse and tend to tell your personally business to their friends and family.

Sweet and kind spirited.  

More empathetic and sympathetic

White women have a lot of problems that they like to talk about openly. I tend to talk to them very little because they have a lot of problems and always want you to be their for them, they kind of bossy and controlling.

21.  Would they consider themselves friends with white women?  Or do they have friends that are of another race?

Yes, some friends that live in Canada and some Indians from India in Tulsa, Oklahoma

22.  What type of relationship do you have with black men?

Pretty good because I respect them and they respect me.

23.  What do you think is the role of both black men and women in relationships and inside of the home should be? [Here, you can ask specific questions regarding marriage and the roles of both men and women inside of marriage]

Men should be the priest of their homes and should pray together and look for God for direction and women should be adored and honored by the man that they are with. Men should not beat on their women and should be active with their family and children. Both parents should be the best role model they can be for their children.

24.  What do you think about people dating outside of their race?  Black men marrying white women and black women marrying white men?

To each it’s on but there is a difference between the races.

People should try to stay in their own race.

Makes people feel less inferior when they don’t come from the original people.

Messes up their genetics and biological make up.

25.  What issues do you think most affect black Americans today?

Racism and discrimination that takes place on job sites.

The message that young black role models send to their viewers. (Drugs and violence)

Black teenagers voting and advocating for their own rights.