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Lucille Simmons Whipper papers

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1146
Abstract Lucille Simmons Whipper (1928-2021), an educator, guidance counselor, academic administrator, community, and religious leader and the first African-American woman to serve as an State of South Carolina House of Representatives in Charleston's District 109 (1986-1996). She exercised her activism with her graduating class at Avery Institute in their attempts to desegregate the College of Charleston in 1944. Decades later, Whipper was instrumental in working with the State of South Carolina and...
Dates: 1900-2016, undated

Zion-Olivet Presbyterian Church records

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1030
Abstract Zion-Olivet formed in 1959 when two African American congregations in Charleston. S.C., Zion and Olivet, merged. The records in the collection are divided into three main sections, Zion Presbyterian Church, Olivet Presbyterian church and Zion-Olivet Presbyterian church records with numerous series which finacial documents, Kindergarten/Child Child Center, Church members and students, Women's Associations, United Presbyterian Men of Zion-Olivet, and the Presbyterian Church USA/Synod of the...
Dates: 1854-1991, undated

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African American churches -- South Carolina -- Charleston 15
African American churches 9
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Religion 6
Church records and registers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 5
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African American Episcopalians 3
African American Congregationalists 2
African American churches -- South Carolina -- Johns Island (Island) 2
African American families -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
African American religious leaders 2
African American universities and colleges 2
African American women -- South Carolina -- Societies and clubs -- History 2
African Americans -- Sea Islands -- Social life and customs 2
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Social conditions 2
Boards of directors 2
Charleston County (S.C.) 2
Child care 2
Church buildings 2
Community organization 2
Hospital Workers' Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1969 2
Southern States -- Religious life and customs 2
administrative records 2
certificates 2
correspondence 2
programs (documents) 2
sermons 2
Adolescence 1
Affirmative Action programs 1
African American Baptists -- Georgia -- Savannah 1
African American History Month 1
African American Methodists 1
African American architects -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American cemeteries -- South Carolina 1
African American chemists 1
African American churches -- Georgia -- Savannah 1
African American churches -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Photographs 1
African American elementary schools -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American fraternal organizations 1
African American fraternal organizations -- 20th century -- Photographs 1
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African American men 1
African American nurses -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American optometrists 1
African American photographers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American veterans 1
African American women -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 20th century 1
African American women -- South Carolina -- Societies and clubs 1
African American women -- South Carolina -- Societies and clubs -- Photographs 1
African American women in church work 1
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African American women teachers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American women--Religious life 1
African American youth 1
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African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- History 1
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African Americans -- Genealogy 1
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African Americans -- Societies, etc. -- Photographs 1
African Americans -- South Carolina 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 19th century 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 20th century 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Societies, etc. -- Photographs 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Genealogy 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Johns Island (Island) -- History -- 20th century 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Johns Island (Island) -- Social life and customs 1
Architecture -- Conservation and restoration -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Archives 1
Archivists 1
Associations, institutions, etc. -- African American membership 1
Associations, institutions, etc. -- South Carolina 1
Baptist associations 1
Baptist associations -- South Carolina 1
Baptists -- Georgia -- Savannah -- History 1
Bricklayers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Buildings -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Cannonborough-Elliottborough (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Charleston (S.C.) 1
Charleston (S.C.) -- History 1
Charleston (S.C.) -- Race relations 1
Children 1
Children of freed persons 1
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Church bulletins -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Church music 1
Church records and registers -- Georgia -- Savannah 1
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Civil rights movements -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
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Contractors -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Credit unions 1
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Avery Normal Institute 3
Avery Research Center 2
Baptist Educational & Missionary Convention of South Carolina 2
Benedict College 2
Calvary Episcopal Church (Charleston, S.C.) 2
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Centenary United Methodist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 2
Clark, Septima Poinsette, 1898-1987 2
Emanuel AME Church (Charleston, S.C.) 2
Hebron Presbyterian Church (Johns Island, S.C.) 2
Morris College (Sumter, S.C.) 2
Mt. Zion A.M.E. Church (Charleston, S.C.) 2
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 2
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Charleston Branch (Charleston, S.C.) 2
Plymouth Congregational Church (Charleston, S.C.) 2
United Church of Christ 2
Whipper, Benjamin James, 1912-1998 2
Whipper, Lucille, 1928-2021 2
African Methodist Episcopal Church 1
Allen University 1
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority 1
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. Gamma Xi Omega Chapter (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Alston, Addie Middleton 1
Andell, Charles John, 1837-1876 1
Andell, William, 1845-1932 1
Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture 1
Baptist Education Center Foundation (North Charleston, S.C.) 1
Baptist Ministers' Wives and Ministers' Widows of Charleston County (S.C.) 1
Baskervill Ministries (Pawleys Island, S.C.) 1
Beecher Congregational Church (New Orleans, La.) 1
Berkeley-Charleston-Dorchester Council of Governments 1
Camp Saint Christopher (Seabrook Island, S.C.) 1
Carawan, Guy 1
Carr, Thomas Tobias, III, 1930-2017 1
Carr, Thomas Tobias, Sr. 1
Charity Baptist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Charleston County Baptist Association (S.C.) 1
Charleston County Legislative Delegation 1
Charleston County School District 1
Charleston Naval Shipyard 1
Childs, Margaretta Pringle, 1912-2000 1
Chisholm, Shirley, 1924-2005 1
Community Organization Federal Credit Union. 1
Concerned Clergy Committee (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Cupp, Ruth Williams, 1928- 1
DeCosta, Herbert A., Sr., 1894-1960 1
DeReef family 1
DeReef, Joseph, 1802-1876 1
DeReef, Richard Edward, 1798-1876 1
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 1
Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Enwright, John T., 1904-1975 1
Episcopal Divinity School 1
First African Baptist Church (Savannah, Ga.) 1
Fleet and Industrial Supply Center (Charleston, S.C.) 1
General Council of the Congregational Christian Churches of the United States 1
Glover, Julia Williams, 1908-2000 1
Gourdine, Julia Alston 1
Graves, J. Michael (James Michael), 1915-1996 1
H. A. DeCosta Company 1
Hebron St. Francis Center (1982-1988) (Johns Island, SC) 1
Hunt, Eugene C. 1
Immaculate Conception School (Charleston, S.C.) 1
James Island Study Committee 1
Jax, Bernadine, Sister 1
Jenkins Orphanage Institute (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Jenkins, Esau, 1910-1972 1
Kelly, Irene, Sister, 1913-2011 1
Lecque family 1
Lincoln University (Pa.) 1
MacBeth, Arthur L. 1
Mackey, Naomi Richardson, 1909-1996 1
Mackey, Stephen Bradford McIver, 1901-1984 1
Miller, Mary S. 1
Miller, Ruth M., 1943- 1
Mitchell, Julian A. (Julian Augustus), 1836-1907 1
Morawetz, Victor, 1859-1938 1
Morris Street Baptist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
National Baptist Convention of the United States of America 1
Order of the Eastern Star. Grand Chapter of South Carolina 1
Orphan Aid Society (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Pennsylvania Freedmen's Relief Association 1
Philadelphia Divinity School 1
Phillis Wheatley Literary and Social Club (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Pivnick, Esther Kaplan, 1913-2001 1
Plymouth Congregational Church (Charleston, S.C.). Board of Trustees 1
Political Action Committee of Charleston County (Charleston County, S.C.). 1
Porter, Anthony Toomer, 1828-1902 1
Pugh family 1
Robinson, Bernice, 1914-1994 1
Schaffer, Ferdinand, 1831-1913 1
Seabrook Island Natural History Group (S.C.) 1
Seabrook, William, Sr., 1773-1836 1
South Carolina Historical Society 1
St. John's Parish (S.C.) 1
St. Mark's Protestant Episcopal Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
St. Matthew Baptist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Stoney, Samuel Gaillard, 1891- 1
Stringfellow, Elizabeth H. 1
Trinity United Methodist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
United Church Board for Homeland Ministries 1
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