- Collection:
- Fairfield High School Oral History Collection
- Title:
- Leola Gripper and Weldon Haire
- Contributor to Resource:
- Andrea L'Hommedieu
- 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:
- Leola (Ashford) Gripper was born in Simpson, South Carolina in June 1935. Her father was a sharecropper and her mother was a homemaker and seamstress. She received her early education in church schools, and later at Fairfield County Training School (later Fairfield High School), in Winnsboro, South Carolina. After marrying, she and her family moved to Illinois, where she attended nursing school and worked as a nurse for 30-plus years. After retirement, she and her husband moved back to Fairfield County, South Carolina. Weldon Haire was born in Winnsboro, South Carolina in October 1935, one of ten children. His father, Isaiah Haire, was a sharecropper and later a mechanic, a skill which he taught his sons. His mother, Ella Mae (Weldon) Haire, was a homemaker. Weldon received his early education in church schools, and later Fairfield County Training School (later Fairfield High School). After graduation he joined the military, then became a woodworker and electrician. This oral history interview with Leola Gripper and Weldon Haire on October 26, 2017 includes discussion of growing up in Fairfield County, South Carolina, attending segregated schools, integration, African-American education in the rural south, sharecropping, agriculture in South Carolina, railroads in Fairfield County, The Fairfield County Training School, Mount Zion School, Benedict College, the NAACP, segregated hospitals, and religion.
- Metadata URL:
- https://digital.library.sc.edu/exhibits/fairfieldhighschool/leola-gripper-weldon-haire
- 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:
- 60:23
- Original Collection:
- Accession # EDLP 010
Fairfield High School Oral History Collection - Contributing Institution:
- South Caroliniana Library
- Rights:
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