Centenary United Methodist Church (Charleston, S.C.)
Organization
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Centenary Methodist Episcopal Church records
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1015
Abstract
Centenary Methodist Episcopal Church, an African-American church, formed after the Civil War with the withdrawal of African-American members from Trinity United Methodist Church. In 1866, the congregation purchased its current building at 60 Wentworth Street, Charleston, South Carolina.The records in this collection cover the beginning of Centenary Methodist Episcopal Church (1866-1978). The collection is divided into two series: Member Records and Financial Records. Member...
Dates:
1857-1994; Majority of material found within 1866-1969
Margaretta P. Childs African American church records project
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1013
Abstract
Margaretta Pringle Childs (1912-2000) worked as an archivist at the College of Charleston, was head archivist for the City of Charleston, and a field archivist for the South Carolina Historical Society. In addition to her archival work, Childs was a member of the Charleston Interracial Committee and a Civil Rights activist.
The materials in this collection form the working files of Margretta P. Childs's attempted project to collect and house the records of Charleston's Black churches at the...
Dates:
1849-1985
Mamie E. Garvin Fields papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1023
Abstract
Mamie Elizabeth Garvin Fields (1888-1987) was an African-American educator, civic and religious activist born in Charleston, South Carolina. Fields was an influential leader in the South Carolina African-American women's club movement. A culmination of Fields' life is detailed in her memoir, Lemon Swamp and Other Places, co-written with her granddaughter, Karen Fields.The majority of the collection details Fields' involvement with the National...
Dates:
1894-1987; Majority of material found within 1945-1985
Smith Atkins family papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1142
Abstract
The Smith Atkins family members included in this collection are William Henry Smith (1865-1941), his wife Anna Priscilla McLeish Smith (1870-1940), her father, James Wilkinson McLeish (1839-1897), and William and Anna's daughter, Maude Henrietta Smith Atkins (1898-1998).
The bulk of the collection is comprised of materials created or collected by Maude Smith Atkins, as an Avery Normal Institute student, and as an organist. Smith Atkins co-authored "The Avery Song," in which the Library of...
Dates:
1877-1981, undated; Majority of material found within 1900-1950
William Saxon Wilson papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1038
Abstract
The William Saxon Wilson papers mostly consists of business cards, invitations, event programs, broadsides, and various ephemera created in his business, The Sax Print Shop, which document social, church, educational, and other aspects of African-American life in Charleston, South Carolina.
Dates:
1913-1983; Majority of material found in 1920-1982
Lillian Ransier Wright papers collection
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1042
Abstract
Compilation of the Ransier and Wright family history and contribution to the advancement of African-American community. The collection focuses on the contributions of Alonzo Jacob Ransier in the reconstruction era being a congressman and Lt. Gov. of SC. He was also Lillian Ransier Wright’s father. Lillian Ransier Wright was a graduate of the Avery Normal Institute and was teacher by profession and was involved in St. Mark’s Episcopal Church whereas her husband William G. Wright taught...
Dates:
1924-1995
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- African American churches -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 2
- Church records and registers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
- African American churches 1
- African American legislators 1
- African American teachers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina 1
- African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Alonzo Jacob Ransier Day 1
- Archives 1
- Archivists 1
- Avery Tiger 1
- Church architecture -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Church archives 1
- Church archivists 1
- Civil rights movements -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Clarion 1
- James Island (S.C.) -- History -- 20th century 1
- Methodists -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Police brutality -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 1
- broadsides (notices) 1
- business cards 1
- invitations 1
- printed ephemera 1
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