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Civil War era letters

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-013
Collection Overview

The collection consists of three Civil War era letters. The first letter was written by James E. Wilkins of Virginia to Colonel John Preston on January 23, 1861. In the letter Wilkins pledges his services to South Carolina. The second letter, written September 11, 1862 to John H. Easton, was from a Mr. Helton. In the letter Helton discusses his recovery from injuries suffered during the war. In the third letter, "C.A. Strange" discusses war time conditions to her brother.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1861, 1862, 1864

Cohen, Emanuel, Moses, and Seixas family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1124
Abstract Photographs, correspondence, diaries and memoirs, genealogical materials, land records and certificates, and printed materials relating to the Cohen, Emanuel, Moses, and Seixas families. The families are related through the marriages of Eleanor H. Cohen to Benjamin Seixas in 1865, Mary Eleanor Seixas to Maurice Emanuel in 1888, and Charlotte Virginia Emanuel to Henry P. Moses in 1912. Of particular note is a diary belonging to Eleanor H. Cohen that documents the arrival of Union General...
Dates: 1806-2005; Majority of material found within 1865-1934

College of Charleston Library vertical file on civil rights

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-063
Collection Overview

The collection consists of materials gathered by the staff of the Robert Scott Small Library at the College of Charleston, South Carolina. It includes numerous documents published by state, federal, and private sources concerning "civil rights" in the United States.

Dates: 1973-2000

College of Charleston Library vertical file on the Communist Party of the United States of America

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-079
Collection Overview

The collection consists of materials gathered by the staff of the Robert Scott Small Library at the College of Charleston, South Carolina. It includes numerous publications produced by the Communist Party of the United States of America from 1973 to 1979.

Dates: 1973-1979

College of Charleston Library vertical file on the Ku Klux Klan

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-066
Collection Overview

The collection consists of materials gathered by the staff of the Robert Scott Small Library at the College of Charleston, South Carolina. It includes numerous newspaper clippings concerning the Ku Klux Klan and some documents published by the Klan.

Dates: 1973-1981

College of Charleston Library vertical file on the National Socialist White People's Party

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-041
Collection Overview The collection consists of materials gathered by the staff of the Robert Scott Small Library at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina. The materials were stored in the library's "vertical file" for reference material on "far right" political groups. It includes numerous documents published by the National Socialist White People's Party. It also includes correspondence between an unidentified member of the library staff concerning a subscription to the organization's...
Dates: 1973-1979

College of Charleston vertical file on "The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People"

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-121
Collection Overview The collection consists of materials gathered by the staff of the Robert Scott Small Library at the College of Charleston, South Carolina. It includes 6 pamphlets covering NAACP membership, organizational information, and current programs in various regions of the United States. The file also includes 2 reports. One report covers the 62nd Annual Convention and Resolutions of the NAACP from July 4-July 9, 1971 in Minneapolis, Minnesota (7 pages). The second report is the NAACP Legal Defense...
Dates: 1970s, 1980s

Comments on lectures given by Orestes A. Brownson

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-007
Collection Overview

The collection consists of five newspaper clippings of letters to the editor of the Charleston Standard. The letters were written in 1856 and were in response to a series of lectures by Orestes Augustus Brownson. They attack the "Catholicity" of Brownson's theology. Each is signed "Protestantism."

Dates: 1856

Craft and Crum families papers

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1102
Abstract William Craft (1824-1900) and Ellen Smith Craft (1826-1891) were slaves who met on a plantation in Macon, Georgia. Unwilling to raise children in slavery, in December 1848 they devised a plan to escape to Philadephia, Pennsylvania. Ellen dressed as an invalid male, her arm in a sling to avoid writing (neither William nor Ellen could read or write) and face in bandages to obscure her feminine voice and lack of facial hair. William accompanied her as a servant. They arrived in Philadelphia on...
Dates: 1780-2007

Frederica Daly papers

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1111
Abstract Frederica ( Freddy) Daly (born 1925) was a licensed psychologist and educator with over 30 years of teaching, training, counseling, clinical, and administrative experience. Daly specialized in adolescents, veterans, substance abusers, and families in treatment facilities, hospitals, and universities.The collection contains correspondence, writings, and other items documenting the personal and professional interests of Frederica Daly. Personal materials include...
Dates: 1923-2004

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Charleston (S.C.) 3
Minority women -- United States -- Societies, etc. 3
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Charleston Earthquake, S.C., 1886 2
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Sherman's March through the Carolinas -- Personal narratives 2
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African American civil rights workers -- United States 1
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African Americans -- South Carolina -- Port Royal -- History 1
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