Box 1

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Includes business cards from her positions at universities and a membership card with American Civil Liberties Union.

Collection Overview From the Collection: 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...

Collection Overview From the Collection: 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...

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Includes letters written to Millicent Brown regarding her political, professional, educational, and social involvements, 1984-2002.

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Includes personal letters to Millicent Brown written by professional associates, students and family, 1987-2001 and undated. Also includes a handwritten note and graduation invitation from Dr. Henrie Monteith Tredwell, first African American woman to attend University of South Carolina, in 1963.

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Includes The Dippity Doo Revolution: or Grown Folks Don't Have a Clue in which Millicent Brown worries how her Dippity Doo hair will survive the transition to the previously all-white Rivers High School. Also includes Black Colleges in the Year 2000 regarding Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in North Carolina and handwritten notes.

Scope and Contents note Includes transcript of a 1990 interview with Millicent Brown conducted by Jennifer Cohen for her class paper, Equality in Education. The interview focuses on the impact of the Brown versus Topeka Board of Education decision over thirty years later. Millicent Brown discusses being used as a desegregation guinea pig, in the Millicent Brown versus Charleston County School District #20 in...

Collection Overview From the Collection: 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...

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Includes original and photocopies of a newspaper article about detailing Millicent Brown's civil rights involvement in the 1950s and 1960s, the integration of Rivers High School, and Brown's essay The Dippity Doo Revolution or Grown Folks Don't Have a Clue.

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Includes photocopies of newspaper articles regarding Minerva Brown King, Millicent's sister. Includes coverage of the Charleston sit-in at the Kress department store and The Griot.