Baby Boomer Interview Research Paper

For my baby boomer interview, I decided to interview my grandmother, Carolyn Williams, the second oldest of six who was born in the year 1952 in Portland, Oregon.

I started the interview with asking her, “What new technology came out during your childhood?”, she replied, “... we had cellphones, but they were like the size of a tv remote, but bigger”. She laughed and asked my aunt if she remembers what the cell phone looked like. My grandmother adds, “The cell phones that are out now are so much smaller compared to what was in my generation. Also the pager came out, where people paged people”. I asked her how did the device impact her and she replied, “I never had one because I could never afford one… I just knew people who had one”, she …show more content…
My mom would go to the fields to pick beans and berries to make extra money”. I asked her if she ever lived on the farm, and she said, “I would come visit. I didn’t really live their. My mom and dad moved from Louisiana to Portland during the Vanport days, but they did take me and my brother back to louisiana to visit our grandparents who still lived on the farm”. I preceded to ask her what historical events in America shaped who she is today. I asked her how did the segregation laws affect her as a kid and told her about the Brown v. Board of Education case and the Little Rock Nine. Her response was, “I went to a non-segregated school, so i didn’t get to experience racism when growing up because I never noticed it as a kid until I got to high school. There were small times where there was a little uproar, but I was never involved. I had friends of all races”. It’s interesting how she went to the same school as I did when I was going to middle school, which was Boise. I noticed how we both never had to experience any racism while growing up because I realized I never acknowledged while growing up because I lived in the safe