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Millicent E. Brown papers

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Identifier: AMN 1003
Abstract Millicent Ellison Brown (b. 1948) is an educator and civil rights activist. Born in Charleston to MaeDe and J. Arthur Brown, local and state president of NAACP (1955-1965), Brown, in 1963, replaced her older sister Minerva as the primary plaintiff in a NAACP-sponsored lawsuit (Millicent Brown vs. Charleston County School District #20).The collection consists of personal and professional documents, correspondence, and newspaper clippings relating to Millicent Brown's experience...
Dates: 1949-2023

Esau Jenkins papers, 1963-2003

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Identifier: AMN 1004
Abstract Esau Jenkins (1910-1972) was born and raised on Johns Island, South Carolina. With very little formal education, he became a businessman and civil rights leader.The collection contains biographical papers, correspondence, writings, and information about his affliations, including the Progressive Club, Citizen's Committee of Charleston, Community Organization Credit Union, Political Action Committee of Charleston County, Political Awareness League of Charleston County, and the...
Dates: 1963-2003

Cleveland L. Sellers, Jr. papers

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Identifier: AMN 1017
Abstract Cleveland Sellers, Jr. (born 1944), an African American from Denmark, South Carolina, was a participant and leader of a variety of student, civil rights, leftist, and Pan African movements in the 1960s and 1970s. Sellers alone was indicted and convicted for inciting a riot during the Orangeburg Massacre, in which three students of South Carolina State University died and many others were wounded; Sellers was later pardoned.The majority of the collection details Cleveland L....
Dates: 1934-2003

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Allen University 1
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Carmichael, Stokely, 1941-1998 1
Charleston Area Community Relations Committee (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Charleston County School District No. 20 (S.C.) 1
Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina 1
Citizens' Committee of Charleston (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Cleaver, Eldridge, 1935-1998 1
College of Charleston 1
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Communist Workers Party (U.S.) 1
Community Organization Credit Union 1
Congress of African Peoples 1
Florida State University 1
Guilford College 1
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Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.) 1
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Jackson, Jesse, 1941- 1
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Jenkins, Esau, 1910-1972 1
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 1
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) 1
Malcolm X Liberation University 1
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Charleston Branch (Charleston, S.C.) 1
National Black United Front 1
Nkrumah, Kwame, 1909-1972 1
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University 1
Political Action Committee of Charleston County (Charleston County, S.C.) 1
Progressive Club (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Rivers High School (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Sellers, Cleveland, 1944- 1
Sellers, Pauline Taggart, 1903-1990 1
South Carolina Area Trade School (Denmark, S.C.) 1
Stone, Sonja Haynes, 1938-1991 1
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.) 1
Student Organization for Black Unity 1
Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.) 1
Touré, Ahmed Sékou, 1922-1984 1
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation 1
Voorhees College 1
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