Voorhees College
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
J. Arthur Brown papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1074
Abstract
J. Arthur Brown was born in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1914. After graduating from the Avery Institute in 1932, he continued his education at South Carolina State College in Orangeburg, SC, graduating in 1937. While at SCSC, Brown met his future wife MaeDe Esperanza Myers (1918-2012), marrying in 1940. The couple had three daughters: MaeDe Joenelle Gordon, Minerva King, and Dr. Millicent Brown; and one son, Myles Gregory Brown. He fathered a second son, Albert Wayne Gourdine, who was...
Dates:
1937-1989; Majority of material found within 1950-1988
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
Cleveland L. Sellers, Jr. papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1017
Abstract
Cleveland Sellers, Jr. (born 1944), an African American from Denmark, South Carolina, was a participant and leader of a variety of student, civil rights, leftist, and Pan African movements in the 1960s and 1970s. Sellers alone was indicted and convicted for inciting a riot during the Orangeburg Massacre, in which three students of South Carolina State University died and many others were wounded; Sellers was later pardoned.The majority of the collection details Cleveland L....
Dates:
1934-2003
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- Subject: Civil rights workers -- United States X
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- African American civil rights workers -- United States 2
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century 2
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 20th century 2
- African Americans -- Politics and government -- 20th century 2
- Civil rights workers -- United States 2
- Africa -- Periodicals 1
- African American businesspeople -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African American college students 1
- African American college teachers 1
- African American universities and colleges 1
- African American women -- Social conditions 1
- African American women -- South Carolina -- Societies and clubs 1
- African American women teachers 1
- African Americans -- Civil rights 1
- African Americans -- Education 1
- African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina 1
- African Americans -- Politics and government 1
- African Americans -- Race relations 1
- Bamberg County (S.C.) -- History 1
- Black nationalism 1
- Black people -- Congresses 1
- Black people -- Periodicals 1
- Black power -- United States 1
- Black race -- Congresses 1
- Civic leaders -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Civil rights movements -- United States 1
- College students -- Political activity -- History -- 20th century 1
- Daufuskie Island (S.C.) -- Social conditions 1
- Denmark (S.C.) -- History 1
- Education -- South Carolina -- Johns Island (Island) 1
- Hospital Workers' Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1969 1
- Johns Island (S.C. : Island) -- Economic conditions 1
- Literacy -- South Carolina -- History 1
- Political action committees -- South Carolina 1
- Radicalism -- United States 1
- Segregation -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Segregation -- United States -- History 1
- Segregation in education -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- South Carolina -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century 1
- Southern States -- Race relations 1
- Student movements -- United States 1
- United States -- Race relations 1
- United States -- Race relations -- Political aspects -- History -- 20th century 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Draft resisters 1 + ∧ less
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