Whipper, Benjamin James, 1912-1998
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
South Carolina Voices of the Civil Rights Movement Conference
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1196
Abstract
The South Carolina Voices of the Civil Rights Movement Conference collection documents the 1982 conference held by the Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture. The conference hosted community organizers and scholars to discuss the Civil Rights Movement in South Carolina with sessions on voting and political action, labor, education, the culture of the movement, the Highlander influence, the youth movement, civic and political action, and redress and protest. Oral histories were...
Dates:
1982
Benjamin James Whipper, Sr., papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1147
Abstract
Benjamin James Whipper, Sr., (1912-1998), a minister, religious leader, educator, and civic activist. A native of Charleston, South Carolina, Reverend Whipper pastored two churches, Charity Baptist (1949), and Saint Matthew Baptist (1940). Whipper was the Moderator of the Charleston County Baptist Association; the treasurer with the Baptist Educational and Missionary Convention of South Carolina; and the Assistant Secretary on the Executive Board of the National Baptist Convention, USA,...
Dates:
approximately 1865-2008, undated
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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