Whipper, Benjamin James, 1912-1998
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence: Benjamin J. Whipper Scholarship Fund, 2002 - 2010
File — Box 171, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents
A fund established to support Morris College students.
Dates:
2002 - 2010
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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