Interview+with+Jacqueline+Wilson

From the book, __Oh, Freedom!__ by Casey King and Linda Barrett Osborne.
 * __Interview with Jacqueline Wilson__**


 * Q:** So what do you remember about things in the olden days?
 * A:** Back in the olden days - and it wasn't really that long ago - but when I was young, all the black children went to a different school than the white children.


 * Q:** How were the blacks schools different from the white schools?
 * A:** Well, it was hard to tell because we didn't get to compare.


 * Q:** The white school's playground was right near your house, so why couldn't you play on it?
 * A:** We just couldn't understand why. Our mothers told us that it was the law - that we couldn't go to school with white children, and we couldn't play on their playground, and looking at the playground, you were certainly curious about what other things they had in the white schools that we didn't have in ours.


 * Q:** But there was no way of knowing for sure.
 * A:** No, but we had an idea. All of our books had other schools' - white schools' - names in them, and this long list of kida who had ised them before us. The materials we got - the sports equipment, the art supplies, things like that - were not as good, almost always used. It made you feel like you weren't good enough to have new things, like you always came second.