Box 3

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Contains Murray's professional journal log that she kept when she was taking the Directed Teaching in the Elementary School course at Felton Training School in Orangeburg, SC from June to July 1951; the course requirements, and the list of suggested readings.

Collection Overview From the Record Group: Each small collection is considered a series. 1. Hicks and Steele Family Papers: The Hicks family, originally from Savannah, Georgia and New York, are an African-American family in Charleston, South Carolina. John O. Hicks married Sadie Steele and had one son, J. Maurice Hicks, father of Janet Hicks. The Steele family, originally from Missouri, are decedents of the Randolph family who left Charleston, South Carolina in 1800 and relocated to...

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Contains program booklet that has the monthly schedule of event taking place in the Lowcountry to commemorate this event (June 2007-September 2008) and a timeline charting the events leading up to and after the abolition of the slave trade. The initiative was a joint program between the Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World Program (CLAW) and the South Carolina National Heritage Corridor.

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Contains the original and a photocopy of a letter from Daniel Jenkins to Mr. Edward K. Pritchard, attorney-at-law about timber payments; and a photocopy of page 75 from the Jenkins Orphanage book.

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Holds orginial deed of William B. Yates, T.W. Howell, and William P. Lea are conveying land they purchased on Line Street (on the Charleston Neck) for a burial ground for free persons of color to Nelson Richardson, Titus Gregory, Jacob Weston, Samuel Weston, James Johnston, Charles H. Holloway, and William Berry.

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An anonymous postcard written to Stoney inviting him and other South Carolina Democrats to see democracy in action, specifically referring to African-American and White women working side by side in the sewing rooms in Moncks Corner and Bonneau.

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Contains the original and a typed transcript of the slave bill of sale that took place in the Sumter District of South Carolina in 1846. The bill denotes that Big Tom, Dinah, Harvey, Elias, and Ira were sold by William Lewis (who purchased John Durant's estate) to Franklin J. Moses for the sum of $1,795.

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Documents include the association's by-laws, meeting minutes, report of corporation, and certificate of incorporation.

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Contains a letter from John Conroy to Father William J. Joyce from Arlington, VA. Conroy states that he was sorry to miss the going away party for Joyce and thanks him for his help during the 1969 Hospital Worker's Strike that occurred in Charleston.

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Contains a report entitled From Runaways to Migrants by Jean Pierre Le Glaunec (pages 1-2 are missing) and the funeral programs of individuals (arranged alphabetically). The report is a content analysis of the funeral programs to examine the moving patterns of African-Americans between the northern and southern regions of the United States.