The HistoryMakers video oral history with Carrie L. Davis.
| Format | Video (Streaming) |
| Publication | Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]. |
| Description | 1 online resource (6 video files (2 hr., 14 min., 46 sec.)) : sound, color. |
| Supplemental Content | https://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=https://da.thehistorymakers.org/storiesForBio;ID=A2002.067 |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Davis, Carrie Lapsky, 1944- interviewee. |
| Other author/creator | Crowe, Larry F., interviewer. |
| Other author/creator | Bieschke, Paul, director of photography. |
| Other author/creator | HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company. |
| Variant title | History Makers video oral history with Carrie L. Davis |
| Portion of title | Carrie L. Davis |
| Abstract | Entrepreneur Carrie L. Davis was born on May 24, 1944 in Chicago, Illinois and raised in Port Gibson, Mississippi. She earned her B. A. degree from Tougaloo College in Tougaloo, Mississippi in 1964 and her M.A.. degree in education from Northwestern University. She began her career as a teacher in Chicago, but soon pursued her passion for clothing and entrepreneurship. She opened Cari's Designer Fashions in 1988. In 1998, she closed the boutique and returned to education as administrator of the Head Start program in Chicago Schools. Davis was active in politics, raising funds for mayoral and senatorial races. She was a lifetime member of the NAACP and a member of Operation PUSH. She was also a founder of the Lake Shore Links and a member of the Chicago Art Institute, Tougaloo College Alumni and Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. In 1999, she was elected to the Tougaloo Hall of Fame. |
| Credits | Videographer, Paul Bieschke. |
| Performer | Larry Crowe, interviewer. |
| Date/time/place of a event note | Recorded Chicago, Illinois 2002 May 9. |
| Source of description | Vendor-supplied metadata. |
| Genre/form | Internet videos. |
| Genre/form | Interviews. |
| Genre/form | Nonfiction films. |
| Genre/form | Oral histories. |
| Genre/form | Oral histories. |
| Genre/form | Internet videos. |
| Genre/form | Nonfiction films. |
| Stock number | A2002.067 HistoryMakers |