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Box 1

 Container

Contains 15 Results:

Campaign for Charleston County Council: Album, circa 1980

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents note

Includes correspondence, news articles, photographs and other miscellaneous memorabilia from Bennett's campaign. Includes campaign advertisements and handwritten voting requests.

Dates: 1930-2002

Campaign for Charleston County Council: Album - Loose Files, circa 1980

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents note From the Series:

This series contains biographical documents regarding Isaiah Bennett's life. They include a disassembled album regarding Bennett's campaign for Charleston County Council in 1980, with a letter from Rosalynn Carter; an obituary and funeral program; and the finding aid for the collection he donated to the Georgia State University archives pertaining to his involvement with the local 1199 Union.

Dates: 1930-2002

Southern Labor Archives at Georgia State University: Inventory of Accession

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents note

Includes list of materials donated by Bennett.

Dates: 1930-2002

Miscellaneous Biographical Materials, 1930-2002

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents note

Includes obituary and funeral program about Isaiah Bennett; photograph of Bennett as a young boy; and a letter with signed photograph of Bennett and Governor Dick Riley.

Dates: 1930-2002

Plat, 1977

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents note

Document regarding selling of land owned in McClellanville, South Carolina by Isaiah Bennett and Edward Bennett.

Dates: 1930-2002

Articles, 1969 and 1994

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents note

Includes articles on the Charleston Hospital Worker's Strike and a letter by Stephen Hoffius to Bennett regarding getting oral histories on the Hospital Workers' Strike.

Dates: 1969-1994

Article by Stephen O'Neill: The Struggle for Black Equality Comes to Charleston: the Hospital Worker's Strike of 1969, 1986

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents note From the Series:

This series consists of primary and secondary source material on the Charleston Hospital Workers' Strike of 1969 and includes correspondence between Bennett and other leaders of the strike, memorabilia, photographs, and news clippings.

Dates: 1969-1994

Hospital Workers' Strike Album, 1969

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents note

Contains telegrams, articles, photographs and other miscellaneous memorabilia regarding the strike and Isaiah Bennett's activism as a labor leader.

Dates: 1969-1994

Correspondence and Printed Material, 1945

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents note

Includes strike bulletins; letter asking for support of strike; news release and correspondence related to strike; and call to join the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO).

Dates: 1945

Organizational Material, 1976-1981

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents note

Includes constitutions and bylaws; correspondence; lists of members and officers; materials regarding Solidarity Day March; budget form; minutes; and printed materials of South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, and Louisiana Ad Hoc Committee regarding APRI financial crisis. Also includes statistics on loss of black voting power in South Carolina.

Dates: 1976-1981