African Americans -- South Carolina
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
"Black on Black Crime Conference , 22 September 1979
File — Box 161, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
Contains transcript of Whipper's address, "Loss of Talents and Human Resources Crime is destroying a whole generation of young Blacks."
Dates:
22 September 1979
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