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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

Robert Lee Smith collection

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Identifier: AMN 1068
Abstract The Robert Lee Smith collection consists of newspaper clippings, correspondence, reports and various documents generated and gathered by Margaretta Pringle Childs (Mrs. St. Julien Ravenel Childs). Newspaper clippings (1977-1984), mostly from the Charleston Chronicle, discuss the case and its possible link to the unsolved 1975 murder of George A. Payton, an African American attorney who was representing Smith. Childs' correspondence (1977-1979, and undated) is on...
Dates: 1976-1984, and undated

Judge J. Waties and Elizabeth Waring papers

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Identifier: AMN 1033
Abstract Julius Waties Waring (1880-1968), a Charleston native and attorney became a Federal Judge in 1942. At the time of his divorce and remarriage in 1945 to Elizabeth A. Hoffman (1895-1966), he began to hand down more liberal decisions, such as equalizing the pay of black and white teachers and outlawing South Carolina's white-only Democratic Primary. He soon ruled that separate but equal was per se inequality. Because he and his wife socialized with African Americans and held...
Dates: approximately 1947-1964

William Saxon Wilson papers

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Identifier: AMN 1038
Abstract

The William Saxon Wilson papers mostly consists of business cards, invitations, event programs, broadsides, and various ephemera created in his business, The Sax Print Shop, which document social, church, educational, and other aspects of African-American life in Charleston, South Carolina.

Dates: 1913-1983; Majority of material found in 1920-1982

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African American businesspeople -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
African American churches -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
African Americans -- Civil rights 2
African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
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Charleston (S.C.) -- Race relations 2
Civil rights movements -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
Civil rights movements -- United States 2
Hospital Workers' Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1969 2
Activism 1
Activists 1
African American Activists 1
African American Congregationalists 1
African American bankers 1
African American banks -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American civil rights workers 1
African American civil rights workers -- United States 1
African American clergy -- 20th century -- Photographs 1
African American college teachers 1
African American educators -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Photographs 1
African American educators -- United States -- 20th century 1
African American newspapers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American political activists -- United States -- 20th century 1
African American politicians 1
African American religious leaders 1
African American school principals -- New York (State) -- New York -- 20th century 1
African American social reformers -- United States -- 20th century 1
African American teachers -- New York (State) -- New York -- 20th century 1
African American teachers -- Tanzania -- 20th century 1
African American universities and colleges 1
African American women -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Societies and clubs 1
African American youth 1
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century 1
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African Americans -- Civil rights -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 20th century 1
African Americans -- Civil rights -- United States 1
African Americans -- Education 1
African Americans -- History -- Study and teaching 1
African Americans -- Politics and government 1
African Americans -- Politics and government -- 20th century 1
African Americans -- Politics and government -- South Carolina 1
African Americans -- Relations with Hispanic Americans 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 20th century 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Religion 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Social conditions 1
Afro Latino 1
Algebra -- Study and teaching (Middle school) -- South Carolina 1
Apartheid -- South Africa 1
Archives 1
Archivists 1
Black lives matter movement 1
Black people -- History -- Study and teaching 1
Bridge clubs 1
Charleston (S.C.) -- Photographs 1
Charleston (S.C.) -- Politics and government 1
Charleston County (S.C.) -- Race relations 1
Church 1
Church archives 1
Church archivists 1
Church records and registers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Civic leaders -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Civil rights 1
Civil rights -- Societies, etc. 1
Civil rights demonstrations 1
Civil rights movements -- Southern States 1
Civil rights workers -- United States 1
Community development 1
Community organization 1
Community organization -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Covid-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023 1
Credit unions 1
Criminal justice, Administration of 1
Criminals -- South Carolina 1
Day care centers -- South Carolina -- Yonges Island 1
Discrimination in education -- Law and legislation -- South Carolina -- History 1
Discrimination in education -- South Carolina 1
Discrimination in employment -- United States 1
Education -- Study and teaching 1
Education -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Education -- South Carolina -- Edisto Island 1
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Education -- South Carolina -- Wadmalaw Island 1
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Geechees 1
Gender identity 1
Gender-nonconforming people 1
Gullahs 1
Gullahs -- Massacres 1
Hispanic Americans 1
Juvenile delinquents 1
LGBT Activism 1
Latino 1
Mathematics -- Study and teaching (Middle school) -- South Carolina 1
Occupy movement 1
Oral histories 1
Photographs 1
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Avery Normal Institute 3
Brown, Millicent E. 3
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 3
Avery Research Center 2
Brown family 2
Brown, J. Arthur, 1914-1988 2
Brown, MaeDe E. M., 1918-2012 2
Centenary United Methodist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 2
Childs, Margaretta Pringle, 1912-2000 2
Clark, Septima Poinsette, 1898-1987 2
College of Charleston 2
Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.) 2
Morris Street Baptist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 2
Mt. Zion A.M.E. Church (Charleston, S.C.) 2
Southern Christian Leadership Conference 2
African Methodist Episcopal Church 1
Alliance for Concerned Citizens 1
American Missionary Association 1
Amistad Research Center 1
Amos-Frazier, Marjorie, 1926-2010 1
Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture 1
Beecher Congregational Church (New Orleans, La.) 1
Bennett College (Greensboro, N.C.) 1
Bethel United Methodist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Black Lives Matter Charleston (2014-2018) (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Briggs, Harry, -1986 1
Campbell, James E., 1925-2021 1
Carawan, Candie 1
Carawan, Guy 1
Carter, Jimmy, 1924- 1
Charleston (S.C.). City Council 1
Charleston City Paper (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Charleston County Council 1
Charleston County School District 1
Charleston County School District No. 20 (S.C.) 1
Charleston Jewish Federation (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina 1
Clyburn, James 1
College of Charleston. Governor's School 1
Committee on Better Racial Assurance 1
Community Action Program (U.S.) 1
Community Organization Federal Credit Union. 1
Concerned Clergy Committee (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Cornwell, Ruby Pendergrass, 1902-2003 1
Curnell, Denzel, 1995-2014 1
Democratic Party (Charleston County, S.C.) 1
Drago, Edmund L. 1
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 1
Elliott, R. W. 1
Emanuel AME Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Enwright, John T., 1904-1975 1
Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925-1963 1
Florida State University 1
Friendly Moralist Society (Charleston, S.C.) 1
General Council of the Congregational Christian Churches of the United States 1
Girls Rock Charleston (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Guilford College 1
Hamer, Fannie Lou 1
Harleston Funeral Home (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Harleston, Edwin Gailliard, 1854-1931 1
Highlander Research and Education Center (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1
Horton, Myles, 1905-1990 1
Hospital and Training School for Nurses (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Howard University 1
Humane Brotherhood Association 1
IDEAS (Firm : Washington, D.C.) 1
Immaculate Conception High School (Charleston, S.C.) 1
International Longshoremen's Association 1
Jenkins Orphanage (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Jenkins, Esau, 1910-1972 1
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 1
Lewis, John, 1940-2020 1
MacBeth, Arthur L. 1
Mandela, Nelson, 1918-2013 1
Marshall, Thurgood, 1908-1993 1
Methodist Church (U.S.). South Carolina Conference 1
Mickey Funeral Home (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Mickey family 1
Mickey, Edward Crum 1
Mickey, Hannah Harleston, 1848-1928 1
Moye, Muhiyidin, 1985-2018 1
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Freedom Fund Program 1
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University 1
Oakes, Ziba B., 1806-1871 1
Omega Psi Phi Fraternity 1
Organization of Afro-American Unity 1
Palfi, Marion, 1907-1978 1
Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005 1
Payton, George A., 1929-1975 1
Peoples Federation Bank (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Phillis Wheatley Literary and Social Club (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Pinckney, Clementa, 1973-2015 1
Plymouth Congregational Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Political Action Committee of Charleston County (Charleston County, S.C.). 1
Post and Courier (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Ravenel, Charles Dufort, 1938- 1
Riley, Joseph P., 1943- 1
Rivers High School (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Robinson, Bernice, 1914-1994 1