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Charleston Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People records

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1117
Abstract The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was started on February 12, 1909, partly in response to the prevalence of lynching of African-Americans in America and the 1908 race riot that occurred in Springfield, Illinois. The Charleston Branch of the NAACP was founded in February 1917 by Edwin Harleston. The branch was established to advocate for the rights of African-Americans in South Carolina and Charleston. The Charleston NAACP serves as a space for...
Dates: 1920-1995, undated; Majority of material found within 1973-1994

Septima P. Clark papers

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1000
Abstract Septima Poinsette Clark (1898-1987) was born in Charleston, South Carolina to Peter Porcher Poinsette and Victoria Anderson. Clark attended small private schools and Avery Institute, getting a teacher's certificate in 1916. She married Nerie Clark (1889-1925) of North Carolina, a navy cook in 1920; they had one surviving child Nerie Clark, Jr. (born 1925). Clark received her BA from Benedict College in 1942 and an MA from Hampton Institute in 1946. She taught in various schools throughout...
Dates: approximately 1910-1990

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

Bernice Robinson papers

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1018
Abstract Bernice Violanthe Robinson (1914-1994) was born in Charleston, South Carolina to James C. and Martha Elizabeth Robinson. She was a cosmetologist, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Secretary and Chairperson of Membership, Highlander's first Citizenship School teacher for adult education on John's Island, South Carolina. She held political education and voter registration workshops in Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, and other southern states for the...
Dates: 1920-1989; Majority of material found within 1950-1989

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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African Americans -- Politics and government -- 20th century 3
African Americans -- Civil rights 2
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Charleston (S.C.) -- Race relations 2
Civil rights workers -- United States 2
Education -- South Carolina -- Johns Island (Island) 2
Hospital Workers' Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1969 2
Political action committees -- South Carolina 2
Southern States -- Race relations 2
Africa -- Periodicals 1
African American businesspeople -- South Carolina 1
African American civil rights workers -- United States 1
African American college students 1
African American college teachers 1
African American politicians 1
African American universities and colleges 1
African American women -- Social conditions 1
African American women -- South Carolina -- Societies and clubs 1
African American women teachers 1
African American youth 1
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Bamberg County (S.C.) -- History 1
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Charleston County (S.C.) -- Race relations 1
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Daufuskie Island (S.C.) -- Social conditions 1
Day care centers -- South Carolina -- Yonges Island 1
Denmark (S.C.) -- History 1
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Functional literacy -- United States 1
Johns Island (S.C. : Island) -- Economic conditions 1
Legal assistance to the poor -- South Carolina 1
Literacy -- South Carolina -- History 1
Literacy tests (Election law) -- South Carolina 1
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Draft resisters 1
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Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.) 3
Jenkins, Esau, 1910-1972 3
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 3
Allen University 2
Bethel United Methodist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 2
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Blacks United for Action 2
Carawan, Candie 2
Carawan, Guy 2
Carmichael, Stokely, 1941-1998 2
Citizens' Committee of Charleston (Charleston, S.C.) 2
Clark, Septima Poinsette, 1898-1987 2
Horton, Myles, 1905-1990 2
Jackson, Jesse, 1941- 2
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Charleston Branch (Charleston, S.C.) 2
Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005 2
Robinson, Bernice, 1914-1994 2
Southern Christian Leadership Conference 2
Voorhees College 2
Williams, Hosea, 1926-2000 2
Young, Andrew, 1932- 2
Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990 1
Al-Amin, Jamil, 1943- 1
All-African People's Revolutionary Party 1
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority 1
Black Panther Party 1
Blake, J. Herman 1
Carson, Josephine, 1919- 1
Charleston Area Community Relations Committee (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Charleston County School District 1
Cleaver, Eldridge, 1935-1998 1
Clyburn, James 1
Communist Workers Party (U.S.) 1
Community Action Program (U.S.) 1
Community Organization Credit Union 1
Congress of African Peoples 1
Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925-1963 1
Hamer, Fannie Lou 1
Harvard University 1
Highlander Research and Education Center (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1
Horton, Zilphia, 1910-1956 1
IDEAS (Firm : Washington, D.C.) 1
Jenkins family 1
King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006 1
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) 1
Lewis, John, 1940-2020 1
Malcolm X Liberation University 1
Methodist Church (U.S.). South Carolina Conference 1
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Freedom Fund Program 1
National Black United Front 1
Nkrumah, Kwame, 1909-1972 1
Palfi, Marion, 1907-1978 1
Penn Community Services 1
Political Action Committee of Charleston County (Charleston County, S.C.) 1
Progressive Club (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Ravenel, Charles Dufort, 1938- 1
Sellers, Cleveland, 1944- 1
Sellers, Pauline Taggart, 1903-1990 1
Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority 1
South Carolina Area Trade School (Denmark, S.C.) 1
South Carolina Commission for Farm Workers 1
South Carolina Federation of Colored Women's Clubs 1
Southern Regional Council 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 Methodist Church (U.S.) 1
United Methodist Women (U.S.). South Carolina Conference 1
United States Commission on Civil Rights. South Carolina Advisory Committee 1
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation 1
Volunteers in Service to America 1
Waring, Elizabeth 1
Waring, Julius Waties, 1880-1968 1
Yonges Island Day Care Center (S.C.) 1
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