Jenkins, Esau, 1910-1972
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1910 July 3 - 1972 October 30
Occupations
Places
- Charleston (S.C.) (Other)
- Johns Island (S.C.) (Place of Birth)
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Avery Board Sponsored Events: "Esau Jenkins: A Retrospective View of the Man and His Times", 1984
File — Box 146, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Holds the sub-series: Board of Directors Administrative Documents and Committees; Correspondence and Newsletters; Grant Proposals; Workshops and Event Programs; Avery Institute Alumni; and Various Research Documents. Also view the Charleston Chapter of the Links, "Woman of the Year," Oversize Box #160, for additional materials not included in this subseries.
Dates:
1984
Found in:
Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture
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Lucille Simmons Whipper papers
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Series 5: Civic, Community, and Social Involvement
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5.6: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture
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5.6.1: Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture (ALAAHC): Board of Directors
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5.6.1.4: Workshops and Event Programs
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
Esau Jenkins Award, 23 January 1994
File — Box 180, Folder: 18
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Awards of achievement and recognition recieved by Whipper from her House of Representatives tenure, along with her civic and social work. Includes the subseries: Legislative and Political Organizations; Baptist Organization, Women's Organization, Black History Month, and Various Awards. The awards are dismatled from their original wooden plaques.
Dates:
23 January 1994
Esau Jenkins papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1004
Abstract
Esau Jenkins (1910-1972) was born and raised on Johns Island, South Carolina. With very little formal education, he became a businessman and civil rights leader.The collection contains biographical papers, correspondence, writings, and information about his affliations, including the Progressive Club, Citizen's Committee of Charleston, Community Organization Credit Union, Political Action Committee of Charleston County, Political Awareness League of Charleston County, and the...
Dates:
1963-2003
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
Bernice Robinson papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1018
Abstract
Bernice Violanthe Robinson (1914-1994) was born in Charleston, South Carolina to James C. and Martha Elizabeth Robinson. She was a cosmetologist, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Secretary and Chairperson of Membership, Highlander's first Citizenship School teacher for adult education on John's Island, South Carolina. She held political education and voter registration workshops in Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, and other southern states for the...
Dates:
1920-1989; Majority of material found within 1950-1989
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Education -- South Carolina -- Johns Island (Island) 3
- African American churches -- South Carolina -- Johns Island (Island) 2
- African Americans -- Education 2
- African Americans -- Politics and government -- 20th century 2
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Johns Island (Island) -- Social conditions 2
- Hospital Workers' Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1969 2
- Johns Island (S.C. : Island) -- Economic conditions 2
- Political action committees -- South Carolina 2
- African American businesspeople -- South Carolina 1
- African American cemeteries -- South Carolina 1
- African American politicians 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 1
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- African Americans -- Sea Islands -- Social life and customs 1
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston County -- History 1
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Johns Island (Island) -- Social life and customs 1
- African Americans -- Suffrage -- South Carolina 1
- Boards of directors 1
- Charleston (S.C.) -- Race relations 1
- Church music 1
- Civil rights -- Societies, etc. 1
- Civil rights movements -- Southern States 1
- Civil rights workers -- United States 1
- Daufuskie Island (S.C.) -- Social conditions 1
- Day care centers -- South Carolina -- Yonges Island 1
- Edisto Island (S.C.) -- History 1
- Education -- South Carolina -- Edisto Island 1
- Education -- South Carolina -- Wadmalaw Island 1
- Field recordings 1
- Freed persons -- Education -- South Carolina 1
- Functional literacy -- United States 1
- Geechees -- South Carolina -- Social life and customs 1
- Gospel music 1
- Gullahs -- South Carolina -- Social life and customs 1
- Johns Island (S.C. : Island) -- History -- 19th century 1
- Johns Island (S.C.) 1
- Kiawah Island (S.C.) -- History 1
- Legal assistance to the poor -- South Carolina 1
- Literacy -- South Carolina -- History 1
- Literacy tests (Election law) -- South Carolina 1
- Museum exhibits 1
- Oral histories 1
- Police-community relations -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Programs (Publications) 1
- Race discrimination -- South Carolina -- History 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
- Southern States -- Race relations 1
- Special events 1
- Voter registration -- Southern States 1
- Wadmalaw Island (S.C.) -- History 1
- Watch night 1
- audiocassettes 1
- awards 1
- tape reels 1
- transcripts 1