| Other author/creator | Plumpp, Sterling, 1940- interviewee. |
| Other author/creator | Crowe, Larry F., interviewer. |
| Other author/creator | Hickey, Matthew, director of photography. |
| Other author/creator | HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company. |
| Variant title |
History Makers video oral history with Sterling Plumpp |
| Portion of title |
Sterling Plumpp |
| Abstract |
Poet Sterling Plumpp was born January 30, 1940, in Clinton, Mississippi. Growing up, it was expected that Plumpp would work in the fields like others in his family, but a bootlegger aunt paid for him to go to a private school in Jackson, Mississippi. Later, after hitchhiking to Chicago, he enrolled at Roosevelt University, earning his B.A. in 1968 and his M.A. in 1971. In 1971, Plumpp published his first poems in Negro Digest, and he was hired to teach English at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Plumpp published twelve volumes of poetry, and received numerous awards, including the prestigious Richard Wright Literary Excellence Award. In recent years, Plumpp was a lottery winner, which he used to travel to Africa and to the South, leaving the rest to his daughter, whose birth he has described as the most joyous occasion of his life. |
| Credits | Videographer, Matthew Hickey. |
| Performer |
Larry Crowe, interviewer. |
| Date/time/place of a event note | Recorded Chicago, Illinois 2003 April 8. |
| Source of description | Vendor-supplied metadata. |
| Genre/form | Internet videos. |
| Genre/form | Interviews. |
| Genre/form | Nonfiction films. |
| Genre/form | Oral histories. |
| Genre/form | Oral histories. |
| Genre/form | Internet videos. |
| Genre/form | Nonfiction films. |
| Stock number | A2003.069 HistoryMakers |
