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South Carolina Association of B'nai B'rith Lodges records
Collection
Identifier: Mss 1037
Collection Overview
Collection includes correspondence, organization files, photographs, financial records, minutes, publications, programs.
Collection consists of organizational records of the South Carolina Association of B'nai B'rith Lodges (SCABBL); bulk is minutes (1948-1997) from annual conventions and quarterly executive committee meetings. Also included are minutes and programs from South Carolina State Conferences (1952, 1953) of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith; minutes from District Grand...
Dates:
1940-1997
Found in:
Special Collections
South Carolina Association of Colleges records
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0080
Collection Overview
Two bound volumes (primarily mimeographs, last sheets are loose) containing minutes, correspondence, agenda, financial reports, the names of members (individuals and organizations), reports, and related materials to the South Carolina Association of Colleges. Topics discussed at meetings in volume 1 (1945 Feb. 9-1954 April 23) which contains a brief summary about the early years of the Association and volume 2 (1955 May 6-1965 Oct. 29) include the enrichment of curriculas in high school and...
Dates:
1945-1965
Found in:
Special Collections
South Carolina Black Legislators Oral History Project
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1198
Abstract
The South Carolina Black Legislators Oral History Project contains seven oral histories conducted by the Avery Research Center. Participants discuss their family history, their interest in politics, accomplishments during their political careers, and thoughts about the state of South Carolina politics and their political legacies. Interviewees include Rep. Alma Bryd, Sen. Herbert Fielding, Chief Justice Ernest Finney, Sen. Maggie Glover, Rep. Brenda Lee, Rep. David Mack III, Sen. McKinley...
Dates:
1999-2000
South Carolina Civil and Human Rights Anthology
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1197
Abstract
The South Carolina Civil and Human Rights Anthology is an oral history project containing 18 interviews conducted by the Avery Research Center in 2004 and 2007. Participants discuss their family history and their involvement in organizing and activism work in South Carolina. Topics discussed include labor organizing and labor strikes, demonstrations during the Civil Rights Movement such as sit-ins and marches, voter registration and voter turnout efforts, the Orangeburg Massacre, and the...
Dates:
2004-2007
South Carolina Court of Common Pleas records
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-073
Collection Overview
Judgments of the South Carolina Court of Common Pleas levied against debtors (their goods, chattles, lands, and other hereditaments and real estate) for the recovery of moneys owed. Cases include: Ebenezer Simmons, Benjamin Smith, and James Nott versus Nathanael Snow of St. James Goose Creek (1748 Jan. 3); James Reid versus Henry Varnor, a Christ Church Parish planter (1748 Oct. 1); John
McCall versus William Brown (1748 July 5); Maurice Harvey and Robert Philip, Charles Town [Charleston]...
Dates:
1748-1812
Found in:
Special Collections
South Carolina Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign records
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-074
Collection Overview
This collection consists of campaign statement from the organization, a pamphlet and a donation form. The statement of campaign goals is written by Kenneth C. Leskawa. The pamphlet details several arms reduction proposals.
Dates:
1982
Found in:
Special Collections
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
South-Carolina Society records
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0047
Collection Overview
South-Carolina Society records consist of typewritten, annotated transcriptions of minutes compiled as a W.P.A. project from 1935 to 1937. Minutes of meetings (1827; 1865-1888) concern applications for membership, the establishment of a female academy, revision of society rules, financial matters, assistance to persons who have applied to the Society for relief, and other organizational business.
Dates:
1827-1937
Found in:
Special Collections
South-Carolina State Society of Cincinnati records
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-070
Collection Overview
The collection consists of a guest list/seating chart and a program for a dinner given by the Society of the Cincinnati of the State of South Carolina in Charleston on April 8, 1908.
Dates:
1908
Found in:
Special Collections
South Carolina Teachers' Association Meeting papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-137
Collection Overview
The collection consists of two programs from the 40th annual meeting of the South Carolina Teachers' Association, and a letter from the executive committee of the organization urging members to attend a meeting in Charleston in 1912.
Dates:
1912
Found in:
Special Collections