Charleston County School District
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Newsletter, Teacher Information Packet, Pamphlets and Flyers, 1981
File — Box 139, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Includes memorandums, correspondence, and reports collected during Whipper's tenure as a CCSC board member.
Dates:
1981
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