- Collection:
- Oral Histories of the American South: The Civil Rights Movement
- Title:
- Oral history interview with Saundra Davis, May 12, 1998
- Creator:
- Davis, Saundra, 1942?-
- Contributor to Resource:
- Grundy, Pamela
Southern Oral History Program - Date of Original:
- 1998-05-12
- Subject:
- School integration--North Carolina--Charlotte
Second Ward High School (Charlotte, N.C.)
African Americans--North Carolina--Charlotte
African Americans--North Carolina--Charlotte--Attitudes
Charlotte (N.C.)--Race relations
West Charlotte High School (Charlotte, N.C.) - People:
- Davis, Saundra, 1942?-
- Location:
- United States, North Carolina, Mecklenburg County, Charlotte, 35.22709, -80.84313
- Medium:
- transcripts
sound recordings
oral histories (literary works) - Type:
- Text
Sound - Format:
- text/html
text/xml
audio/mpeg - Description:
- Saundra Davis, an African American woman who attended segregated schools, is a big believer in West Charlotte High School. In this wide-ranging interview, she shares her support for the school and her opinions on busing, diversity, and the somewhat limited success of integration. Using her children's experiences as examples, she speaks of her concerns that the promises of integration have not been realized, in part because white teachers are not committed to teaching black students and in part because the government is unwilling to devote resources to black communities. A believer in busing to create diversity, Davis nonetheless thinks that integration was doomed to failure because it was forced. Her story unfolds through anecdotes about her past life and her family's current life, and although she worries about the current state of schools, she is an unwavering supporter of West Charlotte High School.
The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. - Metadata URL:
- http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/K-0278/menu.html
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- Duration: 01:13:04
- Contributing Institution:
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)
- Rights:
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