Moultrie, Mary, 1943-2015
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
"Charleston Hospital Workers' Strike" rough draft (photocopy)
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-102
Collection Overview
The paper is a typed rough draft with hand written corrections. It describes the Hospital workers' strike at the Medical College of South Carolina in 1969. The author is not identified, but a handwritten note reveals that the document was written in 1982. The paper discusses the role played by Mary Moultrie, the leader of the strike, and William McCord, the college president, in the strike. The strike was a protest by African-American, predominantly female, hospital workers for better...
Dates:
1982
Found in:
Special Collections
Steve Estes papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1055
Abstract
The collection consists of primary and secondary sources used by Steve Estes to write his master’s thesis drawing comparison from the Memphis sanitation workers’ strike of 1968 and Charleston Hospital workers’ strike of 1969. Estes interviewed people who were closely associated with these movements and also consists of an analysis of newspaper clippings that capture these movements.
Dates:
1967-1996
South Carolina Civil and Human Rights Anthology
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1197
Abstract
The South Carolina Civil and Human Rights Anthology is an oral history project containing 18 interviews conducted by the Avery Research Center in 2004 and 2007. Participants discuss their family history and their involvement in organizing and activism work in South Carolina. Topics discussed include labor organizing and labor strikes, demonstrations during the Civil Rights Movement such as sit-ins and marches, voter registration and voter turnout efforts, the Orangeburg Massacre, and the...
Dates:
2004-2007
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- African Americans -- Civil rights -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
- African American civil rights workers 1
- African American civil rights workers -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century 1
- African American political activists -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African American stevedores -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 21st century 1
- African American women civil rights workers 1
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 20th century 1
- Boycotts -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- 20th century 1
- Charleston (S.C.) -- Race relations 1
- Cigar Factory Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1945-1946 1
- Civil rights 1
- Civil rights demonstrations 1
- Civil rights movements -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Civil rights movements -- United States 1
- Community organizers 1
- Direct action 1
- Oral histories 1
- Orangeburg Massacre, Orangeburg, S.C., 1968 1
- Political participation 1
- Poor People’s Campaign 1
- Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, Tenn., 1968 1
- South Carolina -- History -- 1865- 1
- Student movements 1
- Women -- Employment -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- transcripts 1