Lucy Mae Mcdonald Davis
| Lucy Mae Mcdonald Davis | |
|---|---|
| Born | Lucy Mae Mcdonald October 25, 1914 Corsicana, Texas, US |
| 💀Died | November 7, 2000 Dallas, Texas, USNovember 7, 2000 |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| 🏡 Home town | Ferris, Texas, US |
| Title | Superintendent |
| Board member of | Ferris Independent School District School Board |
| 👩 Spouse(s) | Dr. Anthony Davis |
Lucy Mae Mcdonald was the Superintendent at Ferris Independent School District in Ferris, Texas and the Principal of the segregated school until the integration of the Ellis County School System. She has been noted as the first African American superintendent in the United States and one of the first woman superintendents in Texas and the United States.
Early years[edit]
Lucy Mae Mcdonald Davis was born on October 24, 1914 in Corsicana, Texas As a child she attended Ferris ISD received a high school degree from Jarvis Christian College. She attended a number of colleges including:
- Prairie View TAMU at Bishop College
- New York University
- North Texas State University (Now the University of North Texas)
Legacy[edit]
She died on November 7, 2000 at Dallas Baylor Hospital of natural causes. In her honor in 2002 Lucy Mae Mcdonald Elementary was created as the first grade through third grade school for Ferris ISD.
In 2011, the African-American Education Archives and History Program inducted McDonald Davis, who the organization noted had been "appointed Assistant Superintendent and Acting Superintendent, a first for African Americans in Texas" into its Educators Hall of Fame.[1][2]
In 2016, the "50-year veteran teacher, principal, assistant superintendent and acting superintendent in Ferris" was inducted into the Ellis County African American Hall of Fame Museum in Waxahachie.[1]
Transcript of her interview “Testimony of an educator”[edit]
ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEW WITH LUCY MAE MCDONALD ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEW #1986.13 “Testimony of an educator” LUCY MAE MCDONALD: [missing previous] from the end of the cotton rule to the computer age. When I first started school, I attended the elementary school at Ferris. At that time it was called the colored school. My first year at Ferris I changed that from colored to Dunbar School. It has been beautiful working there. At present, even though I am retired, I am working part-time as a consultant of the Ferris Independent School District.
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Staff. "New Ellis County black Hall of Fame capturing attention". Dallas Morning News. Retrieved 2019-12-14.
- ↑ "2011 Hall of Fame Inductee Lucy McDonald Davis". African-American Education Archives and History Program. Retrieved 2019-12-14.
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