Interview No. 2

1.    What is your name?

Kwanza Carter

2.    Where were you born?

Ackerman, Ms

3.    Where did you grow up?

Ackerman, Ms

4.    What were your parent’s names and occupations?

David L. Carter Forestry Director

Wanda Carter Bank Teller

5.    Do you have any siblings?

Montez and Hayes Carter

6.    What was your life like growing up as a black girl in Ackerman?

Life was good. Had a fun childhood and came from a working class family.

7.    Did you ever encounter racism?

Not exactly, but it was clear that racism exists.

8.    What privileges or setbacks do you feel that you experienced growing up a black female in the North/South?

Having both parents was a privilege.

9.    What, if anything, do you remember your parents telling you about race?

Race is only in the eye of the beholder.

10.           What did your parents tell you or instill in you regarding being a woman, specifically a black woman?

Independence

11.           Did you attend school?

Yes

12.           What was it like in school for you as a black female?

School was fun.  Always at the top of class.

13.           Did you graduate and attend college?

Ole Miss.  Felt as if she can overcome racism with her grades

14.           Did you get married?

Yes to Nick Jackson

15.           Did you have any children?

Not the right time in career

16.           Where did you work as an adult?

Ole Miss Library, Pharmacy

17.           What is life like living as a black woman?

Life is good.  Happily married and doing what I love to do.

18.           What are your relationships like with other women?

Have plenty friends. 

19.           Would you consider yourself friends with white women?

All treat each other the same, I do not discriminate.

20.           What type of relationship do you have with black men?

Have many male friends.

21.           What do you think is the role of both black men and women in relationships and inside of the home should be?

Black women and men should work together as partners in the home; Love and support to raise a happy family and home.

22.           What do you think about people dating outside of their race?

People should marry who they want.  I believe in falling in love, not race.

23.           What issues do you think most affect black Americans today?

Bringing each other down within the Community