Preservation, 2018-2023

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.