The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Maycie Herrington

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Maycie Herrington

11/19/2002

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2002.211

Social worker and historian Maycie Herrington (1918 - 2016 ) was an award-winning community leader who works to preserve the legacy of the Tuskegee Airmen. Herrington was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 11/19/2002, in Long Beach, California. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 1; Total Tapes: 5; Total Run Time: 02h 26m 55s

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Herrington, Maycie, 1918-

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Community volunteer and black history conservator Maycie Herrington was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, on November 7, 1918, to Dicie and Thomas Copeland. She attended St. Augustine College for grade school and later Lucille Hunter School. Herrington graduated from Washington High School in 1936. She returned to St. Augustine's College, worked for her tuition and graduated with a B.S. in 1940. In 1943, during World War II, Herrington married former St. Augustine's College classmate, Aaron Herri...