Negro Political Attitudes, 1964 (ICPSR 7002)

Principal Investigator(s): Marx, Gary T.

Summary: This study is part of the University of California's Five-Year Study of anti-Semitism in the United States. As a result of the outbreak of Black rioting during the summer of 1964, it was decided to expand the proposed Black subsample of the national sample to a larger Black oversample in order to study the climate of opinion in the Black American community. These Black respondents were selected by drawing five samples: one general metropolitan sample and four urban samples from Chicago, New... (more info)

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Marx, Gary T. Negro Political Attitudes, 1964. ICPSR07002-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2007-12-19. doi:10.3886/ICPSR07002.v1

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07002.v1

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Summary:   This study is part of the University of California's Five-Year Study of anti-Semitism in the United States. As a result of the outbreak of Black rioting during the summer of 1964, it was decided to expand the proposed Black subsample of the national sample to a larger Black oversample in order to study the climate of opinion in the Black American community. These Black respondents were selected by drawing five samples: one general metropolitan sample and four urban samples from Chicago, New York, Atlanta, and Birmingham. Questions were asked about the respondents' present economic and social positions as well as the economic and social conditions in their childhood. Respondents' opinions on civil rights issues as well as attitudes toward authority and treatment of Blacks in the existing system were investigated. A section of the questionnaire was devoted to the respondents' attitudes toward Jews and other groups.

Subject Terms:   African Americans, anti-Semitism, Black militancy, cities, civil rights, discrimination, minorities, minority affairs, political attitudes, prejudice, protest demonstrations, racial attitudes, racial tensions, riots, social status

Geographic Coverage:   Alabama, Atlanta, Birmingham, Chicago, Georgia, Illinois, New York (state), New York City, United States

Time Period:  

• 1964

Date of Collection:  

• 1964

Universe:   Black population of the United States 21 years of age and older.

Data Types:   survey data

Sample:   The sample was created by expanding the proposed Black subsample of the University of California's Five-Year Study of Anti-Semitism in the United States. The respondents were selected by drawing five samples: one general metropolitan sample and four urban samples from Chicago, New York, Atlanta, and Birmingham.

Data Source:

personal interviews

Original ICPSR Release:  1984-03-18

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