- Collection:
- Women's Marches 2017 Collection
- Title:
- Karen Carson oral history interview, 2017-03-25
- Creator:
- Carson, Karen
- Contributor to Resource:
- Gerrard, Morna
- Publisher:
- Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia State University Library
- Date of Original:
- 2017-03-25
- Subject:
- Protest movements
- People:
- Trump, Donald, 1946-
- Location:
- United States, District of Columbia, Washington, 38.89511, -77.03637
- Medium:
- oral histories (document genres)
interviews - Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- 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. On January 21, 2017, millions of people worldwide took part in marches to protest the inauguration of Donald Trump as the President of the United States. The first protest, which took place in Washington, D.C., was known as the Women's March on Washington and was intended as a response to anti-woman rhetoric and beliefs that were espoused during Trump's campaign. While women's and reproductive rights were at the forefront of marchers' concerns, many also protested the racist, anti-immigrant, anti-science, and other controversial sentiments expressed by the incoming Trump administration.
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. - Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/marches/id/377
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. In addition, no permission is required from the rights-holder(s) for educational uses. For other uses, you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Carson, Karen, interviewed by Morna Gerrard, March 25, 2017, Women's Marches Oral History Project, Archives for Research on Women and Gender. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University.
- Extent:
- 01:17:13
- Original Collection:
- Archives for Research on Women and Gender
Women's Marches Oral History Project
http://research.library.gsu.edu/c.php?g=620340 - Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
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