University of North Carolina at Asheville
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Lucy Herring Oral History Addendum | ||
| Author | Bonnie J. Krause | ||
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Description |
Lucy Herring's biography "We Did Move Mountains!" Lucy Saunders Herring , North Carolina Jeanes Supervisor and African-American Educator, 1916-1968 is written by Bonnie J. Krause and published in The North Carolina Historical Review, April 2003, p188-213. | ||
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Subject LCSH |
Herring,
Lucy S., 1900-1995 North Carolina -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century School integration -- United States -- North Carolina Segregation in education -- United States -- North Carolina |
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Subject Keyword: |
Education ; U. S. Supreme Court ; Brown decision, 1954, U.S. Supreme Court ; Civil Rights ; Racial integration ; Schools ; School administration ; Jeanes supervisor | ||
| Biography |
Ms. Herring begins her story in 1900, born the seventh child of Nettie Ann
and Albert Thomas Sauders in Union, South Carolina. Her father
attended a white handicapped bookstore owner, who required travelling
assistance hen visiting Western North Carolina and overseas. Her
mother laundered for middle-class whites in town, which allowed her to
remain home with the children. At the age of 14, in 1914, Lucy Saunders moved to Asheville, North Carolina with her mother and an ill brother, requiring the healing air of the mountains. She commuted to South Carolina to complete high school in 1916 at State A&M College in Orangeburg. State A&M College president, Robert Shaw Wilkinson, recommended Lucy Saunders for a position of teacher-principal at South Carolina' Great Branch School. This began her fifty-two year teaching career, her role as leader in education, especially for the African-American and her engagement in the Negro Rural School Fund (Jeanes Fund).Ms. Ms. Herring worked as a single mother in North Carolina to bring opportunities to the African American community. In 1952 Herring was awarded a medal for twenty years of service as Jeanes supervisor by the Southern Education Foundation. In 1963 Mountain Street School, where Mrs. Herring served as principal in the 1940's, was named the Lucy S. Herring School in her honor. Mrs. Herring died at her son's home in Phoenix, AZ, Oct. 21, 1995. |
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This volume is included in the Lucy Herring Oral History folder, part of the Dr. Louis Silveri Collection; Southern Highlands Research Center Oral History Collection. |
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