Integration (Blackamoors Collage #105),​ 2017; 15 cents (Blackamoors Collage #106),​ 2017; Guinea Pigs (Blackamoors Collage #107)​, 2017; HBCU (Blackamoors Collage #109),​ 2017; Crowley High (Blackamoors Collage #108), 2017; Economics (Blackamoors Collage #110),​ 2017; Elective (Blackamoors Collage #111),​ 2017; Rules (Blackamoors Collage #112), ​2017 by Damien Davis

From left to right, top to bottom: HBCU (Blackamoors Collage #109),​ 2017; Integration (Blackamoors Collage #105),​ 2017; Guinea Pigs (Blackamoors Collage #107)​, 2017; Elective (Blackamoors Collage #111),​ 2017;15 cents (Blackamoors Collage #106),​ 2017; Economics (Blackamoors Collage #110),​ 2017; Crowley High (Blackamoors Collage #108), 2017; Rules (Blackamoors Collage #112), ​2017

By Damien Davis

These four large plexi works are inspired by interviews with my mother, Delores Davis. My mother was one of the first students to integrate the all-white Crowley High School in her hometown of Crowley, Louisiana. She attended an historically black college (Grambling University) and then worked as a high school teacher for 30 years before recently retiring. The smaller plexi pieces directly below the larger works include text from the interviews. My mother chronicles her experiences going to a predominately white school in the 1970s, her college education, and her experiences as a teacher.

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