John C. Ruoff papers
Collection Overview
The collection, following the original order of the donor, contains materials grouped by subject, consisting almost exclusively of demographics, statistics, and data collected by John C. Ruoff in his capacity as Director of South Carolina Fair Share. The bulk is mostly data and statistics regarding legal cases for which Ruoff provided expert testimony. Legal cases include National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) versus City of Columbia (1993), NAACP versus Richland County, Williams versus Baldwin County Commission, Able versus Wilkins, Smith versus Beasley, NAACP versus Kershaw County, and NAACP versus Spartanburg County Board of Education mostly regarding voting rights, local and state cases concerning reapportionment and redistricting, school desegregation, deregulation and restructuring of the electric industry and bus routes involving the South Carolina Electric and Gas Company, auto insurance reforms, and various other economic and social reforms such as crack-addicted babies, teen pregnancy, statutory and marital rape, and other issues.
Dates
- Creation: 1972-2002
Creator
- Ruoff, John Carl, 1948- (Person)
Language of Materials
Material is in English
Access Restrictions
No restrictions.
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Biographical Note
John Carl Ruoff (born 1948) received a Ph.D. in History from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1976, specializing in social and cultural history of the 19th century American South. Earlier, he received an A.M. in history from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1971) and a B.A. in history from Seattle (WA) University (1969). Starting in 1987, he has worked as Executive and then Research Director for South Carolina Fair Share, a civil rights advocacy group, providing statistical and demographic technical assistance and support to community groups. He has also provided policy analysis and advocacy on consumer, utility, and telecommunications issues, and gave expert legal testimony for several legal cases during his career.
Extent
37.25 linear feet (24 record cartons, 3 archival boxes, 2 oversize boxes)
Abstract
John Carl Ruoff (born 1948) received a Ph.D. in History from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1976, specializing in social and cultural history of the 19th century American South. Starting in 1987, he has worked as Executive and then Research Director for South Carolina Fair Share, a civil rights advocacy group, providing statistical and demographic technical assistance and support to community groups. He has also provided policy analysis and advocacy on consumer, utility, and telecommunications issues, and gave expert legal testimony for several legal cases during his career. The collection consists almost exclusively of demographics, statistics, and data collected by John C. Ruoff in his capacity as Director of South Carolina Fair Share. The bulk is mostly data and statistics regarding legal cases for which Ruoff provided expert testimony. Legal cases include National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) versus City of Columbia (1993), NAACP versus Richland County, Williams versus Baldwin County Commission, Able versus Wilkins, Smith versus Beasley, NAACP versus Kershaw County, and NAACP versus Spartanburg County Board of Education mostly regarding voting rights, local and state cases concerning reapportionment and redistricting, school desegregation, deregulation and restructuring of the electric industry and bus routes involving the South Carolina Electric and Gas Company, auto insurance reforms, and various other economic and social reforms such as crack-addicted babies, teen pregnancy, statutory and marital rape, and other issues.
Collection Arrangement
1. Professional Papers
Acquisitions Information
Doanted by John C. Ruoff, March 2002
Processing Information
Processed by Jessica Lancia, August 2007
Encoded by Melissa Bronheim, July 2010
Edited by Aaron Spelbring, January 2014
Funding from the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation supported the processing of this collection.
Funding from the Council on Library and Information Resources supported the collection processing and encoding of this finding aid.
Subject
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (Organization)
- South Carolina Electric & Gas Company (Organization)
- South Carolina Electric & Gas Company. Transit Department (Organization)
- South Carolina Fair Share (Organization)
Topical
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- South Carolina -- Charleston
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Politics and government -- 20th century
- African Americans -- Suffrage -- South Carolina
- Apportionment (Election law) -- South Carolina
- Bus lines -- South Carolina
- Election districts -- South Carolina
- Elections
- Electric utilities -- Deregulation -- United States
- Insurance -- South Carolina
- Newborn infants -- Effect of drugs on
- Pressure groups
- Rape in marriage
- School integration -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History
- Statutory rape
- Title
- Inventory of the John C. Ruoff Papers, 1972 - 2002
- Author
- Processed by: Jessica Lancia; machine-readable finding aid created by: Melissa Bronheim
- Date
- © 2010
- Description rules
- Dacs
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Description is in English
- Sponsor
- Funding from the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation and the Council on Library and Information Resources supported the collection processing and encoding of this finding aid.
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