Correspondence: Email, undated

Series 1: Administrative Documents (circa 1963-2015, and undated) Contains correspondence, with photocopied emails, handwritten notes, interview transcripts, grant proposals, financial reports, and conference/symposia presentations pertaining to the establishment of the Somebody Had To Do It (SHTDI) Project. Contains the sub-series: "Somebody Had To Do It" Project Files; Grants and Proposals; Financial Records; Correspondence; and "Somebody Had To Do It" Conferences and Events."

Series 2: "First Children" Interviews (1963-2013, and undated) Contains documents, some with interview transcripts, DVD and audio tape recordings. Several oral history interviews are available online through the College of Charleston's "Lowcountry Digital History Initiative" (LDHI) and indicated as such.

Series 3: Claflin University: Jonathan Jasper Wright Institute for the Study of Southern African American History, Culture and Policy (2008-2013, and undated) Dr. Brown joined Claflin University as an Associate Professor in 2008. As a Senior Research Fellowship with the J.J. Wright Institute, she established the "Somebody Had To Do It" Project. Dr. Brown tailored her courses with the focus on the SHTDI project, utilizing several students as project interns. Contains correspondence, project description for trainees, course syllabi, published essays, tasks and agenda lists, oral history newsletters, event programs, and college catalogs. Contains the sub-series: Claflin University; Interns and Volunteers Training Documents; and HIST 405-1: "Seminar in African American History."

Series 4: Research Documents (1955-2016, and undated) Contains journal essays, reports, photocopied newspaper and magazine articles used in writing the narrative for "SHTDI," in grant proposals, reports, conferences, teaching, and general research. Topics include "Brown v. Board of Education," Desegregation Pioneers, School Desegregation, Civil Rights, Childhood Trauma, Domestic Abuse/Violence and Public School Education. Holds the sub-series: Reports and Essays, and Newspaper Articles. The Various Documents sub-series contains programs, pamphlets, and flyers from other initiatives and events, in addition to materials pertaining to the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture.

Series 5: Audio Visual Materials (2003-2010, and undated) Holds CD-Rs, DVD+Ds, and commercial DVDs related to the creation and operations of the "SHTDI" initiatives. Several DVDs contain interviews.

Series 6: AMN 1148-01 (2012-2013, and Undated) contains materials from two events, "From Brown (1954) to Brown (1963) and Beyond: The Challenges of Advancing Race Relations in Schools and Society" and "Commemorating Fifty Years of Desegregation in Charleston"; promotional material; a proposal for work done by the project in 2013; and a magazine issue with a lesson for elementary school students centered on Millicent's experience desegregating Rivers High School.