Karen Carson oral history interview, March 25, 2017

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Identifier: CarsonK_20170325

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Karen Carson oral history interview

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Scope and Contents

Interviewed by Morna Gerrard. In this interview, Karen Carson begins by talking about her family and her career. She discusses making the decision to attend the Women's March on Washington, and her mother deciding to attend with her. She talks about her experience at the march, both for herself and in terms of how she and mother experienced it together. Carson speaks throughout about the dynamics of her family and of her conservative hometown, where her mother currently lives but is planning to leave. She discusses her feelings about the Trump administration, including her hopes and fears for the future of the country while he remains in office.

Dates

Creation: March 25, 2017

Creator

Carson, Karen, 1973- (Interviewee, Person)

Restrictions on Access

Oral history available for research.

Biographical Note

Karen lives in the Old Fourth Ward, and she's in Atlanta for good. She grew up in the Panhandle of Florida next door to her grandparents, with gardens with fresh vegetables and nearly thirty acres of azaleas and camellias and alligators and otters and swans and all. Race, class, and gender were problematic, as was finding a fellow Democrat. She went to the University of Florida, then San Francisco, then on to Miami for graduate school and teaching freshman literature with a focus on architecture and space theory of plantations as described in African-American slave narratives. She is now Senior Acquisitions Editor/Program Manager of the College Statistics textbook list at Macmillan Publishers. She wears her Abbie Hoffman memorial t-shirt with pride, and she prays we come out of this a better nation and better friends in every way. There is always more, and, together, we will create what we desire. Along the way and after, we will care for each other like we never even knew we could.