Buildings in Charleston, South Carolina, undated

The Charleston Branch of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) collection contains branch and committee correspondence, financial records, materials relating to the events and programs sponsored by the Association, subject files, photographs, and miscellaneous material.

The collection is arranged into six series.

1. Administrative records include the NAACP Constitution, local and regional meeting minutes and agendas, branch correspondence from the National and South Carolina offices, branch election material and executive board rosters, and records from the City Council of Charleston. In addition, there is a subseries arranged in alphabetical order of the Charleston Branch of the NAACP committees, which include Economic/Economic Development and Fair Share, Education, Financial, Housing, Labor and Industry, Legal, Membership, Political Action, Telecommunications, Armed Services and Veterans Affairs Committee, and Youth.

2. Programs and Events records reflect the efforts of the NAACP branch to educate and inform individuals about African-American history and culture, such as through the Rediscovering Identity Culture and Heritage (RICH) Program and the NAACP Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympiads (ACT-SO) Program. The Freedom Fund Drive and Gala is one of the biggest fundraising programs that the branch does, and the collection contains records from the 67th to the 78th Freedom Fund (1983-1994). Materials relating to the NAACP National Annual Convention and the South Carolina Annual Convention can also be found within this series.

3. Publications in the collection include the branch newsletters, advertising flyers, branch and national, press releases, copies of The Crisis, newspaper clippings, and brochures from the Department of Education Office of Civil Rights, and from related outside organizations.

4. Subject Files cover topics such as the Charleston Police Department, the confederate flag issue, voter education and voter registration campaigns, misrepresentation of African Americans and the branch in the media, and materials relating to the NAACP involvement regarding anti-South African Apartheid.

5. Photographs are of the 1992 Charleston Branch of the NAACP Congressional Forum, the NAACP Spring Golf tournament, buildings in Charleston relating to where one would go for help with economic or legal problems (i.e. Charleston City Hall, Charleston County Judicial Building Economic, the Citadel, and the South Carolina Employment Security Commission office), and of Haig Point Plantation on Daufuskie Island.

6. Miscellaneous contains records relating to Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity; former Charleston NAACP president Dwight James' Trident Tech computer classes, and promotional material.