Whipper, Lucille, 1928-2021
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1928 June 6 - 2021 August 27
Gender
- Females
Occupations
Places
- Charleston (S.C.) (Place of Birth)
Topics
Languages Used
- English
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
One Church One Child of South Carolina, Incorporated, 1989, 1995-1996
File — Box 72: Series Series 2, Folder: 8
Identifier: Series 2
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Comprises state wide organizations Whipper worked with during her legislative tenure. Contains various combinations of correspondence, reports, meeting minutes, newspaper articles, and brochures. Listed alphabetically.
Dates:
1989, 1995-1996
Found in:
Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture
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Lucille Simmons Whipper papers
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Series 2: Political Career
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2.4: State of South Carolina Legislative Branch-The General Assembly: House of Representatives: The Honorable Lucille Whipper
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2.4.15: South Carolina Organizations and Associations
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
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- Subject: Adolescence X
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- African American youth 1
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- African Americans -- South Carolina 1
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- Charleston County (S.C.) 1
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