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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

South Carolina Rosenwald Schools collection

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1152
Abstract The Rosenwald Schools Initiative was founded by Tuskegee Institute founder, Booker T. Washington and Sears and Roebuck Co. president, Julius Rosenwald in 1912. Washington saw the need to build schools for African Americans, particularly in rural areas across the South and Rosenwald was looking for a charitable opportunity to support and expressed interest in the plight of the Black community. Although Washington passed away in late 1915, the Rosenwald Fund went on to support the creation of...
Dates: 1912-2005, undated

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African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century 8
African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- History 4
African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina 3
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston 3
Hospital Workers' Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1969 3
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Public schools -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century 3
African American educators -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
African American women -- South Carolina -- Societies and clubs 2
African Americans -- Education 2
African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
Educators -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
High schools -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
Political action committees -- South Carolina 2
School buildings -- South Carolina -- Photographs 2
Africa -- Social life and customs 1
African American businesspeople -- South Carolina 1
African American children -- Education -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American churches -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American churches -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Photographs 1
African American educators -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Photographs 1
African American fraternal organizations 1
African American fraternal organizations -- 20th century -- Photographs 1
African American fraternal organizations -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American midwives -- South Carolina 1
African American photographers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American school principals -- South Carolina -- Mount Pleasant 1
African American teachers -- South Carolina -- Mount Pleasant 1
African American teenagers -- Education -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American women -- Social conditions 1
African American women -- South Carolina -- Societies and clubs -- Photographs 1
African American women teachers 1
African Americans -- Civil rights 1
African Americans -- Civil rights -- South Carolina 1
African Americans -- Civil rights -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 20th century 1
African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- Mount Pleasant 1
African Americans -- Museums 1
African Americans -- Politics and government -- 20th century 1
African Americans -- Politics and government -- South Carolina 1
African Americans -- Social conditions 1
African Americans -- Societies, etc. -- Photographs 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 19th century 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 20th century 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Social conditions 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Societies, etc. -- Photographs 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston County -- History 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Johns Island (Island) -- Social conditions 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Mount Pleasant 1
African Americans -- Suffrage -- South Carolina 1
Archives 1
Avery Tiger 1
Boards of directors 1
Buildings -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Charleston County (S.C.) 1
Civil rights workers -- United States 1
Daufuskie Island (S.C.) -- Social conditions 1
Education -- 19th century 1
Education -- South Carolina -- Johns Island (Island) 1
Fraternal organizations -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Fraternal organizations -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Photographs 1
Fund raising 1
Hospital Workers' Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1969 -- Photographs 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
Police-community relations -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Porters -- Labor unions -- United States -- History 1
Pullman porters -- Photographs 1
Pullman porters -- United States -- History 1
Race discrimination -- South Carolina -- History 1
Rosenwald Schools 1
Rosenwald schools -- South Carolina 1
School supervisors -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century 1
Sea Islands -- Photographs 1
South Carolina -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century 1
Teachers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
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Avery Normal Institute 6
Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture 3
Avery Research Center 2
Bonds-Wilson High School (Charleston, S.C.) 2
Citizens' Committee of Charleston (Charleston, S.C.) 2
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Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.) 2
Jenkins, Esau, 1910-1972 2
Wilson, John T., 1910-1994 2
Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990 1
Allen University 1
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority 1
Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture. Board of Directors 1
Bear, Elizabeth M. 1
Bethel United Methodist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Blacks United for Action 1
Blake, J. Herman 1
Bonds, J. R. (James Roosevelt), 1904-1992 1
Bonds, Lacy, 1910-1973 1
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters 1
Brown, Arthur Felder, Jr. 1
Brown, Miriam M., 1901-2002 1
Callen, Maude E., 1898-1990 1
Carawan, Candie 1
Carawan, Guy 1
Carmichael, Stokely, 1941-1998 1
Carson, Josephine, 1919- 1
Chambers, Annette Graves, 1983- 1
Charleston Area Community Relations Committee (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Charleston County School District 1
Clark, Septima Poinsette, 1898-1987 1
Community Organization Credit Union 1
DeCosta family 1
DeCosta, Beautine Hubert, 1913-2008 1
DeCosta, Frank A. 1
DeCosta, Frank Augustus, Jr., 1935-1999 1
DeCosta-Willis, Miriam 1
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 1
Graves family 1
Graves, Eugene 1
Graves, J. Michael (James Michael), 1915-1996 1
Graves, James R. B., 1883-1969 1
Graves, Pauline 1
Graves, Robert Blackburne 1
Graves, Rose L., 1890-1978 1
Hampton Institute 1
Horton, Myles, 1905-1990 1
Horton, Zilphia, 1910-1956 1
Jackson, Jesse, 1941- 1
Jenkins family 1
King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006 1
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 1
Laing Elementary School (Mount Pleasant, S.C.) 1
Laing High School (Mount Pleasant, S.C.) 1
Laing Normal and Industrial School (Mount Pleasant, S.C.) 1
Morris, Jeanne 1
Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005 1
Penn Center Historic District (Saint Helena Island, S.C.) 1
Penn Community Services 1
Political Action Committee of Charleston County (Charleston County, S.C.) 1
Progressive Club (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Pullman Company 1
Robinson, Bernice, 1914-1994 1
Rosenwald, Julius, 1862-1932 1
South Carolina Federation of Colored Women's Clubs 1
Southern Christian Leadership Conference 1
Tuskegee School of Nurse-Midwifery 1
United States Commission on Civil Rights. South Carolina Advisory Committee 1
Voorhees College 1
Waring, Elizabeth 1
Waring, Julius Waties, 1880-1968 1
Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915 1
Williams, Hosea, 1926-2000 1
Wilson, Etta Winds, 1907-1995 1
Young, Andrew, 1932- 1
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