Carawan, Guy
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1927 July 28 - 2015 May 2
Gender
- male
Occupations
Places
- Santa Monica (Calif.) (Place of Birth)
- New Market (Tenn.) (Place of Death)
Topics
Languages Used
- English
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Guy and Candie Carawan Sea Island recordings
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1203
Abstract
The Guy and Candie Carawan Sea Island recordings, 1960-1969, collection contains field recordings and oral history interviews documenting Gullah Geechee life and culture in rural Johns Island. The recordings were created, first, during the Carawan's time assisting the Island's Citizenship School and, later, when they lived on the Island from 1963 to 1965. The collection consists of reel-to-reel tapes, audiocassettes, and transcripts.
Dates:
circa 1959-1969
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
Esther Kaplan Pivnick collection
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1138
Abstract
Esther Kaplan Pivnick (1913-2001), a former patternmaker from New York, retired on Johns Island, South Carolina in the mid-1970s. Along with historian Elizabeth "Betty" Stringfellow, she embarked on an ambitious project to write an inclusive history of Johns Island, (the largest Sea Island in South Carolina, approximately thirty miles south of Charleston), and incorporating the adjoining islands of Edisto, Wadmalaw, Kiawah and Seabrook. Their goal was to write a "peoples'...
Dates:
1663-2000, undated; Majority of material found within 1863-1999
Filtered By
- Subject: Johns Island (S.C.) X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- African American churches -- South Carolina -- Johns Island (Island) 2
- Education -- South Carolina -- Johns Island (Island) 2
- Johns Island (S.C. : Island) -- Economic conditions 2
- African American cemeteries -- South Carolina 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 -- Civil rights -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 20th century 1
- African Americans -- Education 1
- African Americans -- Music 1
- African Americans -- Politics and government -- 20th century 1
- African Americans -- Sea Islands -- Social life and customs 1
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Johns Island (Island) -- Social conditions 1
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Johns Island (Island) -- Social life and customs 1
- Church music 1
- Civil rights workers -- United States 1
- Daufuskie Island (S.C.) -- Social conditions 1
- Edisto Island (S.C.) -- History 1
- Field recordings 1
- Freed persons -- Education -- South Carolina 1
- Geechees -- South Carolina -- Social life and customs 1
- Gospel music 1
- Gullahs -- South Carolina -- Social life and customs 1
- Hospital Workers' Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1969 1
- Johns Island (S.C. : Island) -- History -- 19th century 1
- Johns Island (S.C.) 1
- Kiawah Island (S.C.) -- History 1
- Literacy -- South Carolina -- History 1
- Oral histories 1
- Political action committees -- South Carolina 1
- Seabrook Island (S.C.) -- History 1
- South Carolina -- History 1
- South Carolina -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century 1
- South Carolina -- Social conditions -- 19th century 1
- Wadmalaw Island (S.C.) -- History 1
- Watch night 1
- audiocassettes 1
- tape reels 1
- transcripts 1