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Septima P. Clark papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1000
Abstract
Septima Poinsette Clark (1898-1987) was born in Charleston, South Carolina to Peter Porcher Poinsette and Victoria Anderson. Clark attended small private schools and Avery Institute, getting a teacher's certificate in 1916. She married Nerie Clark (1889-1925) of North Carolina, a navy cook in 1920; they had one surviving child Nerie Clark, Jr. (born 1925). Clark received her BA from Benedict College in 1942 and an MA from Hampton Institute in 1946. She taught in various schools throughout...
Dates:
approximately 1910-1990
Mamie E. Garvin Fields papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1023
Abstract
Mamie Elizabeth Garvin Fields (1888-1987) was an African-American educator, civic and religious activist born in Charleston, South Carolina. Fields was an influential leader in the South Carolina African-American women's club movement. A culmination of Fields' life is detailed in her memoir, Lemon Swamp and Other Places, co-written with her granddaughter, Karen Fields.The majority of the collection details Fields' involvement with the National...
Dates:
1894-1987; Majority of material found within 1945-1985
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- Hospital Workers' Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1969 1
- James Island (S.C.) -- History -- 20th century 1
- Johns Island (S.C. : Island) -- Economic conditions 1
- Literacy -- South Carolina -- History 1
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- South Carolina -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century 1 + ∧ less
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- Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990 1
- Allen University 1
- Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority 1
- Bethel United Methodist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
- Bethune, Mary McLeod, 1875-1955 1
- Blacks United for Action 1
- Blake, J. Herman 1
- Butler, Susan Dart, 1888-1959 1
- Carawan, Candie 1
- Carawan, Guy 1
- Carmichael, Stokely, 1941-1998 1
- Carson, Josephine, 1919- 1
- Centenary United Methodist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
- Charleston County School District 1
- Citizens' Committee of Charleston (Charleston, S.C.) 1
- Fields, Alfred B. 1
- Fields, Karen E. (Karen Elise), 1945- 1
- Fields, Mamie E. Garvin, 1888-1987 1
- Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.) 1
- Horton, Myles, 1905-1990 1
- Horton, Zilphia, 1910-1956 1
- Jackson, Jesse, 1941- 1
- Jenkins, Esau, 1910-1972 1
- King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006 1
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 1
- Marion Birnie Wilkinson Home for Girls (Cayce, S.C.) 1
- Murray, Albertha J., 1889-1969 1
- Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005 1
- Penn Community Services 1
- Robinson, Bernice, 1914-1994 1
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference 1
- United States Commission on Civil Rights. South Carolina Advisory Committee 1
- Voorhees College 1
- Waring, Elizabeth 1
- Waring, Julius Waties, 1880-1968 1
- Wilkinson, Marion Birnie, 1873-1956 1
- Williams, Hosea, 1926-2000 1
- Young, Andrew, 1932- 1 + ∧ less
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