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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
John L. Dart family papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1069
Abstract
John Lewis Dart (1854-1915) was born a free person of color in Charleston, South Carolina. He graduated from Avery Normal Institute in 1872 and attended Atlanta University in Georgia, and Newton Theological Seminary in Massachusetts, where he was ordained a Baptist minister. He returned to Charleston in 1886 and became pastor of Morris Street Baptist Church. Sixteen years later, Dart ministered the Shiloh Baptist Church. In 1894, he opened the Charleston Normal and Industrial Institute, a...
Dates:
1844-1947
Inez Richardson papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN-1161
Abstract
Inez A. Richardson, born in 1911, was the first licensed Black female barber in South Carolina. This collection concentrates primarily on Inez Richardson, however it also includes documents pertaining to the rest of the Richardson family. The collection documents Richardson’s involvement in the Rose of Sharon Tent, Southern District No. 4, from 1952 to 1984. The Rose of Sharon Tent was one of the Tents of the United Order of Tents, which is the only Christian Black women’s secret society. ...
Dates:
1951-1990
William Saxon Wilson papers
Collection
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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- Avery Normal Institute 2
- Centenary United Methodist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 2
- Mt. Zion A.M.E. Church (Charleston, S.C.) 2
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Charleston Branch (Charleston, S.C.) 2
- Atlanta University 1
- Baker, Frazier B., -1898 1
- Bronseaux, Anna Pierre Dart, 1896-1978 1
- Bronseaux, Beverly 1
- Butler, Nathaniel 1
- Butler, Susan Dart, 1888-1959 1
- Charleston Normal and Industrial School (Charleston, S.C.) 1
- Childs, Margaretta Pringle, 1912-2000 1
- Crum, William Demos, 1859-1912 1
- Dart family 1
- Dart, John Lewis, 1854-1915 1
- Dart, Julia Pierre 1
- Dart, William 1
- Dart, William Andrews 1
- Democratic Party (Charleston County, S.C.) 1
- Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 1
- Fenwick, Susan 1
- Harleston, Edwin Augustus, 1882-1931 1
- Hospital and Training School for Nurses (Charleston, S.C.) 1
- Immaculate Conception High School (Charleston, SC) 1
- Jenkins Orphanage (Charleston, S.C.) 1
- MacBeth, Arthur L. 1
- McClennan, Alonzo C., 1855-1912 1
- Miller, Thomas E., 1849-1938 1
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 1
- Richardson, Inez 1
- Richardson, Roscoe 1
- South Carolina Historical Society 1
- South Carolina. General Assembly. House of Representatives 1
- Stoney, Samuel Gaillard, 1891- 1
- United Order of Tents 1
- Wilson, William Saxon, 1893-1982 1
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