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Myrtle Gonza Glascoe papers

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Identifier: AMN 1164
Abstract Dr. Myrtle G. Glascoe was a social worker, educator, civil rights activist, and the founding director of Avery Research Center. She was born in 1936 in Washington, D.C., then received her B.A. from Howard University, her M.A. from University of Pennsylvania, and her PhD from Harvard University.This collection contains professional materials relating to Dr. Glascoe’s time with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and educational development research from 1958...
Dates: 1958-1982

Bernice Robinson papers

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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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King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 2
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.) 2
Al-Amin, Jamil, 1943- 1
All-African People's Revolutionary Party 1
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Bethel United Methodist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
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Carawan, Candie 1
Carawan, Guy 1
Carmichael, Stokely, 1941-1998 1
Clark, Septima Poinsette, 1898-1987 1
Cleaver, Eldridge, 1935-1998 1
Clyburn, James 1
Communist Workers Party (U.S.) 1
Community Action Program (U.S.) 1
Congress of African Peoples 1
Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925-1963 1
Glascoe, Myrtle Gonza 1
Hamer, Fannie Lou 1
Harvard University 1
Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.) 1
Highlander Research and Education Center (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1
Horton, Myles, 1905-1990 1
IDEAS (Firm : Washington, D.C.) 1
Jackson, Jesse, 1941- 1
Jenkins, Esau, 1910-1972 1
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) 1
Lewis, John, 1940-2020 1
Malcolm X Liberation University 1
Methodist Church (U.S.). South Carolina Conference 1
Mississippi Freedom Schools 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
Palfi, Marion, 1907-1978 1
Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005 1
Ravenel, Charles Dufort, 1938- 1
Robinson, Bernice, 1914-1994 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
Southern Christian Leadership Conference 1
Southern Regional Council 1
Stone, Sonja Haynes, 1938-1991 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. Federal Bureau of Investigation 1
Volunteers in Service to America 1
Voorhees College 1
Williams, Hosea, 1926-2000 1
Yonges Island Day Care Center (S.C.) 1
Young, Andrew, 1932- 1
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