- Collection:
- Fairfield High School Oral History Collection
- Title:
- Theodore Manning
- 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:
- Theodore Manning was born in Blythewood, South Carolina in 1945, the son of a sharecropper and a homemaker, and one of nine children. He earned his degree from Benedict College in 1967, then was drafted into the Army during the Vietnam War, but was exempted due to his job as a math teacher. In 1977 he received his master's degree from the University of South Carolina. He taught and coached at Fairfield High School for forty years. This oral history interview with Theodore Manning on October 26, 2017 includes discussion of his family life, living with his older siblings, activities and sports at Bethel High School, the quality of his teachers, attending college, the Vietnam War, protests and sit-ins, being a math teacher in the Army, the Civil Rights movement, segregation and integration, teaching at Fairfield High School, student discipline, studying for his master's degree at the University of South Carolina, period and cultural differences between the 1950s-1970s and today, the NAACP, and the name change of the school from Fairfield County Training School to Fairfield High School.
- Metadata URL:
- https://digital.library.sc.edu/exhibits/fairfieldhighschool/theodore-manning
- 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:
- 47:30
- Original Collection:
- Accession # EDLP 018
Fairfield High School Oral History Collection - Contributing Institution:
- South Caroliniana Library
- Rights: