Davis, Price, 1920-

Murphy, Hope

Charlotte, North Carolina

J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections and University Archives, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

2004-05-25

sound recording-nonmusical

spoken word

eng

Price Davis was a 83-year-old man at the time of interview, which took place at the Second Ward Alumni House in Charlotte, North Carolina. He was born in Lincolnton, North Carolina in 1920. He was educated at Second Ward High School and was employed as a truck driver.

Charlotte, North Carolina native Price Davis shares his experiences of growing up and living in Charlotte during segregation. Mr. Davis talks about attending Morgan School and Second Ward High School in the Brooklyn neighborhood in Charlotte, and describes teachers and their close relationships with the families of students. He discusses his frequent experiences with racism and racially-based violence as a boy and a young adult, including being discouraged from becoming a lawyer or an artist because of his race, and describes the Charlotte of his youth as like "Mayberry with racism." Mr. Davis recounts leaving Charlotte soon after high school for New York City and his career as a truck driver. He concludes by explaining how he came to forgive discrimination faced in his past and enjoy life.

MP3 access copy created on ingest from WAV preservation master. Interview originally recorded on two minidiscs and digitized using a Digidesign 003 rack.

Truck drivers

Davis, Price, 1920-

Second Ward High School (Charlotte, N.C.)
Morgan Elementary School (Charlotte, N.C.)
Ku Klux Klan (1915- )

World War (1939-1945)

African American schools
African American teachers
Segregation in education
Race relations
Race discrimination
Racism
Police brutality
African Americans--Segregation
African Americans--Social conditions
Civil rights movements
Political and social views

North Carolina--Charlotte
North Carolina--Charlotte--Second Ward
North Carolina--Charlotte--Cherry
North Carolina--Charlotte--First Ward
North Carolina--Taylorsville
New York (State)--New York

Interviews
Oral histories

1920-2010

The era before Brown v. Board of Education

Price Davis oral history interview 2, March 19, 2004, J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections and University Archives, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Price Davis oral history interview 3, November 18, 2006, J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections and University Archives, University of North Carolina at Charlotte (https://goldmine.uncc.edu/islandora/object/uncc%3A232); Vermelle Ely, Price Davis, Wright Hunter, Calvin Davis, and Naomi Davis oral history interview, March 25, 2005, J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections and University Archives, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Vermelle Ely, Price Davis, and John Funches oral history interview, June 29, 2004, J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections and University Archives, University of North Carolina at Charlotte (https://goldmine.uncc.edu/islandora/object/uncc%3A187)

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