Henrie treadwell biography of nancy
Treadwell talks about growing up with Simkins, a fierce civil rights activist, who set up several NAACP chapters throughout South Carolina....
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Desegregation—Integration “Henrie was in my English class and taught by a truly great, and demanding professor, Dr. Jack Ashley. Everyone knew who Henrie Monteith was. When Nancy Elizabeth Treadwell was born on 28 June , her father, Ely Henry Treadwell, was 39 and her mother, Mary Josephine Gillespie, wasShe was intelligent and quiet. At first, the students were nervous; most had never been in a classroom with a person of color. But after a few weeks, all of us became more concerned about our papers and quizzes and quickly overcame any overt concerns about her being in the class. We were all just trying to survive.”Thorne Compton | |||||||||||||||||||
| Henrie Monteith Treadwell attended school in Columbia through the eighth grade and completed her secondary education in Virginia. After first being denied admission to USC in , she enrolled at Notre Dame College in Baltimore, MD. She was graduated from the University of South Carolina with a B.A. in biology and received an M.A. in b | ||||||||||||||||||