6. AMN 1003-01, 1949-2023
Collection Overview
The collection consists of personal and professional documents, correspondence, and newspaper clippings relating to Millicent Brown's experience integrating Rivers High School; studying at Howard University, College of Charleston, The Citadel, and Florida State University; and teaching at Bennett College, Guilford College, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, and the Governor's School of the College of Charleston. Other documents pertain to Brown's participation at a Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporation event, the Bicentennial Committee for Educational Programs, the Avery Research Center, the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations, Citizens Want Excellence at IAAM, and other political and civic activities. Brown's writings focus on the Civil Rights Movement in Charleston, South Carolina and include papers given at conferences. Her essay The Dippity Doo Revolution: Or Grown Folks Don't Have a Clue
was included in Children of the Dream: Our Own Stories of Growing Up Black in America. She also wrote a chapter titled The NAACP Years: Newman as South Carolina Field Director which is a part of The Spirit of an Activist: The Life and Work of I. DeQuincey Newman.
The Avery Research Center's Library has a copy of Brown's dissertation, Civil Rights Activism in Charleston, South Carolina. Brown is also featured on seven Non-Commercial Videos,
located in the Avery Reading Room: Midday Program, Channel 5 with Millicent Brown,; Collections Workshop, Stern Center Ballroom, Don West and Millicent Brown; Funeral Artifacts; Charleston's Chinese Box
; A conNECKted Project: Millicent Brown and Harriet Jenkins Simon
; Millicent Brown - Interview - Master
; and Minerva T. King Interview for Storycorps
.
Dates
- Creation: 1949-2023
Creator
- From the Collection: Brown, Millicent E. (Person)
Access Restrictions
No restrictions.
Extent
From the Collection: 6.67 linear feet (18 archival boxes)
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Separated Materials
Books that were part of the AMN 1003-01 accrual to the collection have been separated from the collection and cataloged individually for inclusion in the Avery Research Center's Library Stacks. The catalog records for these materials includes a local note that they were part of the Millicent E. Brown papers collection. These materials include A Chalk and Chalkboard Career in Caolina by Lois Averetta Simms; Stolen Lives: Killed By Law Enforcement, second edition; Challenge and Change: The Story of Civil Rights Activist C.T. Vivian by Lydia Walker; Blind in Love (How Can You Not See I'M for Real) by Brother Debuff; Lingering Thoughts by Hermine P. Stanyard; Growing Up Jim Crow by Jennifer Ritterhouse; Children of the Movement by John Blake; Paradoxes of Segregation: African American Struggles for Educational Equity in Charleston, South Carolina, 1926-1972 by R. Scott Blake; The Children of the South by Margaret Anderson; Silent Covenants: Brown V. Board of Education and the Unfilled Hopes for Racial Reform by Derrick Bell; Children of the Dream: Our Own Stories of Growing Up Black in America edited by Laurel Holliday; Fired Up and Focused! Lessons on life, faith and business from Phillip Simmons by Michael E. Evans; Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks; Dawn of Desegregation: J.A. DeLaine and Briggs v. Elliot by Ophelia DeLaine Gona; A Black Parent's Handbook to Educating Your Children (Outside of the Classroom) by Baruti K. Kafele; Call Me Mister: The Re-Emergence of African American Male Teachers in South Carolina by Roy Jones and Aretta Jenkins; and, The Word Made Flesh: The Desegregation Leadership of the Rev. J. A. DeLaine by Julie Magruder Lochbaum.
Two copies of Dr. Brown's dissertation, Civil Rights Activism in Charleston, South Carolina, 1940-1970, have also been separated from the collection and cataloged individually for inclusion in the Library Stacks.
Blind in Love (How Can You Not See I'M for Real), Lingering Thoughts, Fired Up and Focused! Lessons on life, faith and business from Phillip Simmons, and Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom have inscriptions from the authors to Millicent on the first page of each. Children of the Dream: Our Own Stories of Growing Up Black in America has an inscription in the front from Dr. Brown to MaeDe Brown.
Growing Up Jim Crow, Paradoxes of Segregation: African American Struggles for Educational Equity in Charleston, South Carolina, 1926-1972, Silent Covenants: Brown V. Board of Education and the Unfilled Hopes for Racial Reform, and Civil Rights Activism in Charleston, South Carolina, 1940-1970 have annotations throughout them.
Repository Details
Part of the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture Repository
125 Bull Street
Charleston South Carolina 29424 United States
843-953-7608
averyresearchcenter@cofc.edu