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Millicent E. Brown papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1003
Abstract
Millicent Ellison Brown (b. 1948) is an educator and civil rights activist. Born in Charleston to MaeDe and J. Arthur Brown, local and state president of NAACP (1955-1965), Brown, in 1963, replaced her older sister Minerva as the primary plaintiff in a NAACP-sponsored lawsuit (Millicent Brown vs. Charleston County School District #20).The collection consists of personal and professional documents, correspondence, and newspaper clippings relating to Millicent Brown's experience...
Dates:
1949-2023
Charleston County Education Association Task Force, 1991
File — Box 64: Series Series 2, Folder: 7
Identifier: Series 2
Scope and Contents
Position paper on desegregation.
Dates:
1991
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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2.4.14: Charleston County and City Departments and Organizations
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2.4.14.1: Charleston County Government Departments and Offices
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2.4.14.1.5: Charleston County School District (CCSD)
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2.4.14.1.5.1: CCSD: Correspondence and Reports
Charleston County Education Association Task Force: Position Paper on Desegregation , 1981
File — Box 140, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Holds the subseries: Charleston County School District, and Constituent Board #20 Trustee. Contains memorandums, correspondence, and reports generated by the school district, with letters sent to and from Whipper during her House of Representarive tenure. Additional CCSD documents are located in Subseries: 2.4.1.16.1.5 (Box 64), and 3.5 (Box 81).
Dates:
1981
Charleston Higher Education Consortium, 1982 - 1984
File
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Holds correspondence,reports, meeting minutes, and various documents pertaining to Whipper's commission, committee, and Board of Trustee positions, along with her civic/social involvement.
Contains the subseries: Charleston County School District (CCSD); Mayor's Advisory Committee on Human Relations; City of Charleston Department and Committees; Charleston County Bicentennial Committee; South Carolina International Women's Year; Avery Research Center for African American History and...
Dates:
1982 - 1984
Laing School records
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1059
Abstract
Laing School was founded January 29, 1866 by Cornelia Hancock (1839-1926), under the auspices of the Friends Association for the Aid and Elevation of the Freedmen of Philadelphia. The school began with 50 African American students in the damaged remains of the Mount Pleasant Presbyterian church in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. At different times, Laing served as an industrial school, a high school, middle school, and elementary school. In the early 1970s, the Charleston school system...
Dates:
1883-1990
Millicent E. Brown collection of the Somebody Had To Do It Project
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1148
Abstract
The Somebody Had to Do It (SHTDI) Project brought to Claflin University in 2008, under the auspices of the Jonathan Jasper Wright Institute for the Study of Southern African-American History, Culture and Policy. This initiative was designed as a multi-disciplinary research project to identify the “first children” who “sacrificed their youth” in implementing the Brown vs. Board of Education decision of 1954. After the creation of a database identifying the names,...
Dates:
2003-2013, and undated; Majority of material found within 2006 - 2013
National Committee for School Desegregation Conference , 1981
File — Box 141, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Holds the subseries: Charleston County School District, and Constituent Board #20 Trustee. Contains memorandums, correspondence, and reports generated by the school district, with letters sent to and from Whipper during her House of Representarive tenure. Additional CCSD documents are located in Subseries: 2.4.1.16.1.5 (Box 64), and 3.5 (Box 81).
Dates:
1981
Report: "School Desegregation: Old Problems Under a New Law", September 1965
File
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The sub-series contains reports, typescripts, and workbooks regarding civil rights issues, voting, and school desegregation.
Dates:
September 1965