Butler, Susan Dart, 1888-1959
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
John L. Dart family papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1069
Abstract
John Lewis Dart (1854-1915) was born a free person of color in Charleston, South Carolina. He graduated from Avery Normal Institute in 1872 and attended Atlanta University in Georgia, and Newton Theological Seminary in Massachusetts, where he was ordained a Baptist minister. He returned to Charleston in 1886 and became pastor of Morris Street Baptist Church. Sixteen years later, Dart ministered the Shiloh Baptist Church. In 1894, he opened the Charleston Normal and Industrial Institute, a...
Dates:
1844-1947
Mamie E. Garvin Fields papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1023
Abstract
Mamie Elizabeth Garvin Fields (1888-1987) was an African-American educator, civic and religious activist born in Charleston, South Carolina. Fields was an influential leader in the South Carolina African-American women's club movement. A culmination of Fields' life is detailed in her memoir, Lemon Swamp and Other Places, co-written with her granddaughter, Karen Fields.The majority of the collection details Fields' involvement with the National...
Dates:
1894-1987; Majority of material found within 1945-1985
Albertha Murray papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1020
Abstract
Albertha Johnston Murray (1889-1969) was an African American educator born in Charleston, South Carolina to William Henry and Mary Ellen Virgin Johnston. Murray retired from the teaching profession in 1959, and remained active in numerous educational, social, and humanitarian organizations. Murray-LaSaine Elementary School was named in her honor along with Mary Alice LaSaine. She married Richard Gailliard Murray and had one daughter, Hazel Albertha Murray Stewart.
The collection consist of...
Dates:
1909-1970
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- African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
- African American business enterprises -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African American librarians -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African American ministers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African American newspapers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African American school principals -- South Carolina -- James Island 1
- African American schools -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African American women -- South Carolina -- Societies and clubs 1
- African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- James Island 1
- African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina 1
- Education -- South Carolina -- James Island 1
- Enslaved persons -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Free African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- James Island (S.C.) -- History -- 20th century 1
- Lynching -- South Carolina -- Lake City 1
- Retirees 1
- Slavery -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Southern reporter (Charleston, S.C.) 1 + ∧ less
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