- Collection:
- Fairfield High School Oral History Collection
- Title:
- Carl Kennedy
- Contributor to Resource:
- Chastity Evans
- Publisher:
- Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina. Department of Oral History, University Libraries
- Date of Original:
- 2017-10-26
- Subject:
- Fairfield High School (Fairfield, S.C.)--Alumni and alumnae--Interviews
Students--South Carolina--Fairfield County (S.C.)--Social life and customs
Segregation in education--South Carolina--History - Location:
- United States, South Carolina, Fairfield County, 34.39511, -81.12123
- Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mp3
- Description:
- Carl Kennedy was born in Winnsboro, South Carolina, the oldest of 5 siblings, and attended Gordon Elementary School, Fairfield High School, and after integration Winnsboro High School (now Fairfield Central High School). He attended college on a sports scholarship, Belmont Abbey College in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Benedict College in Columbia, South Carolina. Carl worked for the Milliken Company, and started a family in Abbeville, South Carolina. When his daughters were in high school, the family moved back to Fairfield County, in close proximity to grandparents, aunts, and uncles. This oral history interview with Carl Kennedy on October 26, 2017 includes discussion of growing up in the community of Simpson, South Carolina, memories of his grandparents, early educational experiences, attending Fairfield High School, school segregation and integration, positive and negative impacts of integration on opportunities for African-American students, friendships made during high school, an anecdote about running into a former school mate on an airplane, his parents' feelings about integration, his ambitions, attending Belmont Abbey College, and Benedict College, his career after college, race relations in general and in Fairfield County, manners and generational differences, an anecdote about an accident at his father's place of work and a segregated local doctor's office, his father's advice on life, raising children, Brown v. Board of Education pf Topeka (1954), Thurgood Marshall, how his schooling influenced his life and family, and race relations today.
- Metadata URL:
- https://digital.library.sc.edu/exhibits/fairfieldhighschool/carl-kennedy
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- University of South Carolina. The transcript and audio are provided for individual research purposes only; for all other uses, including publication, reproduction, and quotation beyond fair use, permission must be obtained in writing from: Department of Oral History, University Libraries, University of South Carolina.
- Extent:
- 38:55
- Original Collection:
- Accession # EDLP 015
Fairfield High School Oral History Collection - Contributing Institution:
- South Caroliniana Library
- Rights:
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