Box 17

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...

Collection Overview

Ninety (90) minute cassette tape. Sound quality-good to fair.

Side A and B: Discusses Buddy Freeman's father; adult education at Promise Land Church with Reverend Martin, prior to Clark and Jenkins, Reverend Taylor also taught; questions regarding records of voter registration; African-American residents on Johns Island and funeral rituals. Note: Side 1 stops half way; the same recording is on Side 2, which sounds clearer.

Collection Overview

Forty-five (45) minute cassette tape: Sides A and B: Sound quality-Good.