Interview with Fabu Phillis Carter, March 26, 2016, Madison, Wisconsin
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Carter, Fabu Phillis
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Dija Manly interviews Fabu Phillis Carter on March 26, 2017 in Madison, Wisconsin. Carter, who was the Madison Poet Laureate from 2008-2012, tells of her childhood growing up on military bases in France and the Southern United States and her youth in Memphis, Tennessee during the time of the Memphis sanitation strikes. She also talks about her experience studying African literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and in Kenya, as well as raising her son in Madison, and his experience as an African-American student at UW-Madison.This interview is part of an oral history series done of residents of Madison on changes affecting the African-American community, beginning around the 1960s and continuing through to 2016. Three Madison high school students were trained in oral history techniques then interviewed black residents who had resided in the city for at least 20-40 years. In the interviews, students asked about four broad areas: 1) family history; 2) education; 3) wor
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