- Collection:
- Fairfield High School Oral History Collection
- Title:
- Queen Davis
- Contributor to Resource:
- Emily Fox
- 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:
- Queen Ann Butler Roseborough Davis was born in Ridgeway, South Carolina in 1938. Her father was a sharecropper, and her mother was a homemaker. While in Massachusetts, her father worked for the railroad. When she was eleven, Queen's family moved back to South Carolina. She attended Johnson C. Smith University to study education and took part in the Civil Rights Movement. She later became a school principal and administrator in Fairfield County. This oral history interview with Queen Davis on October 26, 2017 includes discussion of growing up in Ridgeway, South Carolina, sharecropping, the first time she experienced racism, her father buying and selling land in Ridgeway, living in the rural and segregated south, dropping out of school, and returning to school with the help of Maude Ross (guidance counselor), integrating Fairfield County schools, race relations during integration and today.
- Metadata URL:
- https://digital.library.sc.edu/exhibits/fairfieldhighschool/queen-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:
- 48:37
- Original Collection:
- Accession #: EDLP 007
Fairfield High School Oral History Collection - Contributing Institution:
- South Caroliniana Library
- Rights:
-
