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"Charleston Hospital Workers' Strike" rough draft (photocopy)
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-102
Collection Overview
The paper is a typed rough draft with hand written corrections. It describes the Hospital workers' strike at the Medical College of South Carolina in 1969. The author is not identified, but a handwritten note reveals that the document was written in 1982. The paper discusses the role played by Mary Moultrie, the leader of the strike, and William McCord, the college president, in the strike. The strike was a protest by African-American, predominantly female, hospital workers for better...
Dates:
1982
Found in:
Special Collections
"Charleston Workshop" Seeking and Identifying Black Historical Treasures, 4-5 February 1983
File — Box 146, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Holds the sub-series: Board of Directors Administrative Documents and Committees; Correspondence and Newsletters; Grant Proposals; Workshops and Event Programs; Avery Institute Alumni; and Various Research Documents. Also view the Charleston Chapter of the Links, "Woman of the Year," Oversize Box #160, for additional materials not included in this subseries.
Dates:
4-5 February 1983
Found in:
Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture
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Lucille Simmons Whipper papers
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Series 5: Civic, Community, and Social Involvement
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5.6: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture
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5.6.1: Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture (ALAAHC): Board of Directors
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5.6.1.4: Workshops and Event Programs
Septima P. Clark papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1000
Abstract
Septima Poinsette Clark (1898-1987) was born in Charleston, South Carolina to Peter Porcher Poinsette and Victoria Anderson. Clark attended small private schools and Avery Institute, getting a teacher's certificate in 1916. She married Nerie Clark (1889-1925) of North Carolina, a navy cook in 1920; they had one surviving child Nerie Clark, Jr. (born 1925). Clark received her BA from Benedict College in 1942 and an MA from Hampton Institute in 1946. She taught in various schools throughout...
Dates:
approximately 1910-1990
Cohen, Emanuel, Moses, and Seixas family papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 1124
Abstract
Photographs, correspondence, diaries and memoirs, genealogical materials, land records and certificates, and printed materials relating to the Cohen, Emanuel, Moses, and Seixas families. The families are related through the marriages of Eleanor H. Cohen to Benjamin Seixas in 1865, Mary Eleanor Seixas to Maurice Emanuel in 1888, and Charlotte Virginia Emanuel to Henry P. Moses in 1912. Of particular note is a diary belonging to Eleanor H. Cohen that documents the arrival of Union General...
Dates:
1806-2005; Majority of material found within 1865-1934
Found in:
Special Collections
Coterie Bridge Club, 1975 - 1989
File — Box 161, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents
Contains meeting minutes, financial reports, and membership rosters.
Dates:
1975 - 1989
H. Morris Cox research notes on the Charleston Poetic Renascence
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0127
Collection Overview
This collection consists of 5x8 index cards which were used for research in: Cox, Headley Morris, Jr., Charleston Poetic Renascence, 1920-1930, Thesis (Ph.d.), University of Pennsylvania, 1958. The information included is about the literary South, the Poetry Society of South Carolina, the Charleston Renaissance, and the poems of W. Herbey Allen and DuBose Heyward. Other writers who contributed to the Charleston Renaissance are noted, along with a list of prizewinners in the contests...
Dates:
1920-1930
Found in:
Special Collections
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated, Charleston Chapter, 1981 - 2009
File — Box 161, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Contains a variety of event programs, correspondence, meeting minutes, reports and grant proposals. Organized alphabetically.
Dates:
1981 - 2009
Department of Planning and Urban Development: Historical Research Project, 1987
File — Box 68: Series Series 2, Folder: 5
Identifier: Series 2
Scope and Contents
Regarding research on Black Charlestonians.
Dates:
1987
Found in:
Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture
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Lucille Simmons Whipper papers
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Series 2: Political Career
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2.4: State of South Carolina Legislative Branch-The General Assembly: House of Representatives: The Honorable Lucille Whipper
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2.4.14: Charleston County and City Departments and Organizations
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2.4.14.2: City of Charleston: Departments Offices, Organizations and Businesses
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2.4.14.2.2: City of Charleston Departments
DeReef Court and Park collection
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1128
Abstract
DeReef Court is a former African-American residential housing community in the City of Charleston, South Carolina established in 1854. Named after Joseph and Richard Edward DeReef, free men of color who were successful entrepreneurial brothers. Presently, the residential park known as DeReef Park represents the last green space in the Cannonborough/Elliotborough neighborhood.The collection holds ancestral histories, photocopied deeds and census reports regarding the DeReef...
Dates:
1854-2012; Majority of material found within 1990-2012
Emanuel A.M.E. Church, (Charleston, SC), 1996, and undated
File — Box 137, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Contains weekly and event programs, correspondence, and booklets from various Baptist churches, and other denominational churches in South Carolina and other states. Also includes documents regarding the tragedy (referred to as "The Mother Emanuel 9") which took place at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church on 17 June 2015.
Dates:
1996, and undated