The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with The Honorable Bettye Davis

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with The Honorable Bettye Davis

5/22/2018

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2018.102

Political official Bettye Davis (1938 - 2018) was the first African American woman elected to the Alaska House of Representatives, and the first African American to serve in the Alaska Senate. Davis was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 5/22/2018, in Anchorage, Alaska. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 1; Total Tapes: 5; Total Run Time: 02h 14m 07s

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Davis, Bettye, 1938-2018

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Political official Bettye Davis was born on May 17, 1938 in Homer, Louisiana to Rosyland Daniel Ivory and Dan Ivory. She graduated from Elliot High School in 1956, and received her nursing diploma from Saint Anthony School of Nursing in 1961. Davis went on to earn her B.S. degree in social work from Grambling State University in 1971, and she later completed graduate level course work in family counseling at the University of Alaska Anchorage.Davis worked as the assistant director of the San Ber...