Davis tells of the backlash of hate mail to her after a column she wrote about Chandler using the word nigger in a board meeting.
Merlene Davis graduated from the University of Kentucky with a Journalism degree. She went to the University of California, Berkeley, through the Maynard Institute and worked as a journalist in Memphis Tennessee before returning to the Lexington Herald-Leader. She was a columnist at the Lexington Herald-Leader from 1985 until her retirement in 2015. She is an inductee into the Kentucky Civil Rights Hall of Fame.
This interview took place on April 30, 2015 as part of the Kentucky Civil Rights Hall of Fame Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History and University of Kentucky Libraries.
To view the entire interview visit: http://kentuckyoralhistory.org/interviews/28373
Interviewer: Betty Baye
Videographer: Joanna Hay
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