South Carolina Voices of the Civil Rights Movement Conference Tape 1, 1982
Scope and Contents
The South Carolina Voices of the Civil Rights Movement Conference collection contains audio and video recordings of the 1982 conference and five oral history interviews. The conference hosted South Carolina community organizers and scholars to discuss the Civil Rights Movement in South Carolina with sessions on voting and political action, labor, education, the culture of the movement, the Highlander influence, the youth movement, civic and political action, and redress and protest.
The collection is arranged in three series which document the conference activities.
Series I: Conference Audio Recordings, 1982
Series II: Conference Video Recordings, 1982
Series III: Oral History Interviews, 1982, includes oral history interviews with South Carolina civil rights leaders like J. Arthur Brown, John Cole, John H. McCray, B.J. Whipper, Sr., and Delbert Woods.
Dates
- Creation: 1982
Creator
- From the Collection: Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture (Organization)
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research. A cassette player is required to listen to the audiocassette tapes. A cassette player will be made available to researchers in our reading room. The Avery Research Center does not currently have the technology to play the UCA60 videocassettes.
Full Extent
From the Collection: 1.42 linear feet (1 Hollinger box, 1 Paige carton, 13 UCA60 videocassettes, and 17 audiocassettes)
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Abstract
Recording includes the greetings and introduction to the conference led by Reverend James Blake (Pastor at Morris Brown AME Church) and Lucille Whipper (Conference Director, President of the Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture) as well as the beginning of the Voting and Political Action panel moderated by Paul Hamill and Herbert Fielding (Organizer and Chairman of the Political Action Committee of Charleston County and former member of the South Carolina House of Representatives) with John McCray (former editor and publisher of The Lighthouse and Informer) and Arthur J. Clement (former President of Charleston Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP))
Repository Details
Part of the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture Repository
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Charleston South Carolina 29424 United States
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