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Margaretta P. Childs African American church records project
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1013
Abstract
Margaretta Pringle Childs (1912-2000) worked as an archivist at the College of Charleston, was head archivist for the City of Charleston, and a field archivist for the South Carolina Historical Society. In addition to her archival work, Childs was a member of the Charleston Interracial Committee and a Civil Rights activist.
The materials in this collection form the working files of Margretta P. Childs's attempted project to collect and house the records of Charleston's Black churches at the...
Dates:
1849-1985
Robert Lee Smith collection
Collection
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
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- African American churches -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African American newspapers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
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- Church archives 1
- Church archivists 1
- Church records and registers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Criminal justice, Administration of 1
- Criminals -- South Carolina 1
- Juvenile delinquents 1
- Police brutality -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Prisoners 1
- correspondence 1
- letters (correspondence) 1 + ∧ less
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- Centenary United Methodist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
- MacBeth, Arthur L. 1
- Morris Street Baptist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
- Mt. Zion A.M.E. Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 1
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