Box 17

Scope and Contents

90 minute tape. Interview begins with the history of Hebron Presbyterian Church on Johns Island and then transitions to an oral history with the Buddy Freeman about Johns Island, family history, and other residents of Johns Island.

Scope and Contents

90 minute cassette tape. Buddy Freeman "at Betty's House" discusses the Small Farmer's Cooperative, Septima P. Clark, Esau Jenkins, and the Johns Island Equipment Cooperative.

Collection Overview

Ninety (90) minute cassette tape

Sound quality-Fair to Good.

Sides A and B: Features brief talk by Bernice Robinson discussing Esau Jenkins and the Johns Island Citizenship School; Carawan providing a brief history of the song "We Shall Over Come," singing several variations; folktales by Janie Hunter's daughter; brief talk by Myrtle Glascoe, Avery's first director; and numerous songs sung by Mary Pickney and others.

Collection Overview Ninety (90) minute cassette tape: Side A-Sound quality-fair to good. Stringfellow and Pivnick interview with Reverend Washington. Discusses book that Mrs. Washington wrote regarding her husband (in collection); Reverend Moultrie; Dorothy Richardson of Dorothy's Funeral Home-funeral practices (cooling boards); Reverend Brewer, voter registration and The Progressive Club; Alice Wine who memorized the constitution in order to pass the voter literacy test; Haut Gap and St. Johns High School used...

Collection Overview Ninety (90) minute cassette tape. Side A: Sound quality-Fair to Good. Discusses Reverend Washington's private education in Charlotte, North Carolina. Building church on Johns Island; the quality of education, past and present. Presbyterian education; St. John's High School for whites only; Washington's differences with of Esau Jenkins; the racial makeup of Johns Island; farming crops on the Island; African-American farmers; On Johns and James Island discussed how was the land...

Collection Overview

Sixty (60) minute cassette tape

Side A and B: Sound quality-Fair to good. Taping of singing.

Collection Overview

Ninety (90) minute cassette tape

Sides A and B-Sound quality-Fair. Interview with Esau Jenkins' son by Pivnick and Stringfellow. Also refer to typed transcript in Box 8, Folder 3.

Collection Overview

Sixty (60) minute cassette tape.

Side A: Sound quality-Good to excellent. See "Johns Island Plantations:" Box 5, Folders 1-5 to view the maps mentioned in this recording. Mentions African-American purchased their land after the war; the size of Seabrook Island; the Schaffer Family-The end of Side A drags.

Side B: Sound quality-Good but the tapes drags in the beginning. Continues to discuss planation families.

Collection Overview

Ninety (90) minute cassette tape.

Sound quality-poor on both sides. Side A: Richardson's voice is muffled. Sings "Down by the Riverside," and other songs. Side B: Linda Gadson, sound quality good; discusses Esau Jenkins and his establishing the Rural Missions, Inc., in which Gadson is the director.

Collection Overview Ninety (90) minute cassette tape Side A-Voice quality-fair to bad; with several conversations and voices are speaking at the same time, hard to understand what is being discussed. Mentioned: Promised Land Church and other Johns Island churches Side B-Sound quality-good to fair: A woman named "Dee Dee Frasier" enters the conversation, discusses McClennan Banks Hospital, Stringfellow mentions her aunt who was a nurse; Grisby who was a root doctor in the 1930s; midwifery on Johns...