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Whipper, Lucille, 1928-2021

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1928 June 6 - 2021 August 27

Gender

  • Females

Occupations

Places

Topics

Languages Used

  • English

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Lucille Simmons Whipper papers

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1146
Abstract Lucille Simmons Whipper (1928-2021), an educator, guidance counselor, academic administrator, community, and religious leader and the first African-American woman to serve as an State of South Carolina House of Representatives in Charleston's District 109 (1986-1996). She exercised her activism with her graduating class at Avery Institute in their attempts to desegregate the College of Charleston in 1944. Decades later, Whipper was instrumental in working with the State of South Carolina and...
Dates: 1900-2016, undated

Whipper's retirement from the South Carolina Legislature, 1996

 File — Box 76: Series Series 2, Folder: 4
Identifier: Series 2
Scope and Contents

Contains "A Concurrent Resolution" recognizing Whipper's resignation: correspondence, press releases, photocopied newspaper articles and insurance booklets.

Dates: 1996

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  • Subject: booklets X

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Affirmative Action programs 1
African American History Month 1
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