Benedict College
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Event Program: "An Evening of Musical Elegance", 10 June 2007
File — Box 120, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Whipper served on Benedict's Board of Trustees (2005-2008). Holds correspondence, meeting minutes, Board of Trustees meeting reports, various committee meeting reports, President reports, Founder's Day Rally event programs, a variety of special event programs, and news releases. Includes dissertation: "Towards Creating Anomalies...Low Income, First Generation Students at Benedict College," 2005.
Dates:
10 June 2007
Found in:
Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture
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Lucille Simmons Whipper papers
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Series 4: Religious Affiliations and Organizations
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4.2: The Baptist Educational and Missionary Convention of South Carolina and Auxiliaries
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4.2.4.: Baptist Educational and Missionary Sponsored Educational Institutions
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4.2.4.2: Benedict College
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