Brown, J. Arthur, 1914-1988
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
J. Arthur and MaeDe 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, J. Arthur 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,...
Dates:
1890-2013; Majority of material found within 1950-1988
Millicent E. Brown papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1003
Abstract
Millicent Ellison Brown (b. 1948) is an educator and civil rights activist. Born in Charleston to MaeDe and J. Arthur Brown, local and state president of NAACP (1955-1965), Brown, in 1963, replaced her older sister Minerva as the primary plaintiff in a NAACP-sponsored lawsuit (Millicent Brown vs. Charleston County School District #20).The collection consists of personal and professional documents, correspondence, and newspaper clippings relating to Millicent Brown's experience...
Dates:
1907-2024
South Carolina Voices of the Civil Rights Movement Conference
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1196
Abstract
The South Carolina Voices of the Civil Rights Movement Conference collection documents the 1982 conference held by the Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture. The conference hosted community organizers and scholars to discuss the Civil Rights Movement in South Carolina with sessions on voting and political action, labor, education, the culture of the movement, the Highlander influence, the youth movement, civic and political action, and redress and protest. Oral histories were...
Dates:
1982
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- African American businesspeople -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African American children -- Education -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African American civil rights workers -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century 1
- African American civil rights workers -- United States 1
- African American college teachers 1
- African American labor union members -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African American universities and colleges 1
- African American women -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Societies and clubs 1
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century 1
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- South Carolina 1
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 20th century 1
- Bridge clubs 1
- Cigar Factory Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1945-1946 1
- Civic leaders -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Civil rights lawyers -- South Carolina 1
- Civil rights movements -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Civil rights movements -- United States 1
- Community organizers 1
- Conferences 1
- Hospital Workers' Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1969 1
- Race discrimination -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 1
- School integration -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 1
- Segregation -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Segregation -- United States -- History 1
- Segregation in education -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Social action -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 1
- Voter registration -- Southern States 1
- Youth protest movements 1
- scrapbooks 1
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