Iola Lee Davis Malvern
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Iola Lee Davis was born in McKinney, Texas, on January 28, 1927, to Lonnie and Artishia Young Davis. She grew up in the era of segregation, attending McKinney’s E.S. Doty School and was Valedictorian of her graduating class.
When she began her career as a sixth-grade teacher at Doty, MISD students were still separated along racial lines. But, when McKinney ISD fully integrated in 1965, Iola Malvern was one of the first black teachers to transfer to what had previously been an all-white school, West Ward, now known as Nell Burks Elementary, and taught fourth grade until her retirement in 1983.
To honor Iola and her husband Albert, also a fellow McKinney ISD teacher, McKinney named a local school “Albert and Iola Lee Davis Malvern Elementary School”.
When she began her career as a sixth-grade teacher at Doty, MISD students were still separated along racial lines. But, when McKinney ISD fully integrated in 1965, Iola Malvern was one of the first black teachers to transfer to what had previously been an all-white school, West Ward, now known as Nell Burks Elementary, and taught fourth grade until her retirement in 1983.
To honor Iola and her husband Albert, also a fellow McKinney ISD teacher, McKinney named a local school “Albert and Iola Lee Davis Malvern Elementary School”.
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McKinney Public Library System, “Iola Lee Davis Malvern,” McKinney Public Library Digital History, accessed April 25, 2024, https://mckinneylibrary.omeka.net/items/show/837.