- Collection:
- Fairfield High School Oral History Collection
- Title:
- Mae Nolia Davis & Robert Davis (unrelated)
- Contributor to Resource:
- Jingtong Dou
- 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:
- Mae Nolia Davis was born in Blair, South Carolina. Her father was a sharecropper, and her mother was a homemaker, raisng five children. She attended Fairfield High School, but left school at fourteen to get married. While raising seven children (all boys), she earned her high school diploma and later an associate's degree. She worked in the Fairfield school system as a teacher's aid for twenty-two years. Robert Davis was born in White Oak, South Carolina, one of ten children. His father worked in the pulp wood mill, and his mother worked in a plant in Winnsboro. He attended what was to become Fairfield High School in the mid-1950s. In the 1960s he was drafted, but not sent overseas. He returned to South Carolina, received a college degree, worked, and ran for political office, winning a seat on the Fairfield County Council for eighteen years. This oral history interview with Mae Nolia Davis and Robert Davis on October 26, 2017 includes discussion of growing up in Fairfield County, South Carolina, attending Fairfield County Training School (later to become Fairfield High School), daily life, attending college, race relations past and present, societal segregation, the Civil Rights movement, and African Americans employment.
- Metadata URL:
- https://digital.library.sc.edu/exhibits/fairfieldhighschool/mae-nolia-davis-robert-davis
- 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:
- 1:01:17
- Original Collection:
- Accession # EDLP 006
Fairfield High School Oral History Collection - Contributing Institution:
- South Caroliniana Library
- Rights:
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