- Collection:
- Fairfield High School Oral History Collection
- Title:
- Mary V. Starks
- 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:
- Mary V. Starks was born in Winnsboro, South Carolina in November, 1944. Her father, Bill Starks, was a businessman, and ran a service station as well as a pulpwood mill. Her mother, Nancy Ashford Starks, was a domestic worker, and worked for prominent families in Winnsboro. Her grandparents were sharecroppers. Education was her parents' highest priority for Mary and her siblings. Mary attended Benedict College in Columbia, South Carolina, studying education, and taught for forty-three years. This oral history interview with Mary V. Starks on October 26, 2017 includes discussion of growing up in Winnsboro, South Carolina, her maternal and paternal grandparents, sharecropping, educational experiences, Jenkinsville, South Carolina, Voorhees College, Benedict College, Black owned and operated funeral homes, AME churches in Winnsboro, South Carolina, the lynching of Emmett Till, integration and segregation, Uniroyal plant in Winnsboro, the Winnsboro Mills community, her experiences in college, the Civil Rights movement, her various teaching experiences over forty-three years, and the South Carolina Department of Corrections.
- Metadata URL:
- https://digital.library.sc.edu/exhibits/fairfieldhighschool/mary-v-starks
- 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:
- 56:56
- Original Collection:
- Accession # EDLP 025
Fairfield High School Oral History Collection - Contributing Institution:
- South Caroliniana Library
- Rights:
-
