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Marjorie Amos-Frazier papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1166
Abstract
Marjorie Amos-Frazier (1926-2010) was a Civil Rights activist and politician in Charleston, South Carolina. She was the first woman elected to serve on the Charleston County Council in 1974. Six years later Amos-Frazier became the first non-legislator, woman and African-American to serve on the South Carolina Public Service Commission (1980-1993).
Amos-Frazier's papers holds biographical, professional and political career, organizational and religious affiliation documents and photographs,...
Dates:
1970s-2010, and undated
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
College of Charleston vertical file on "The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People"
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-121
Collection Overview
The collection consists of materials gathered by the staff of the Robert Scott Small Library at the College of Charleston, South Carolina. It includes 6 pamphlets covering NAACP membership, organizational information, and current programs in various regions of the United States.
The file also includes 2 reports. One report covers the 62nd Annual Convention and Resolutions of the NAACP from July 4-July 9, 1971 in Minneapolis, Minnesota (7 pages). The second report is the NAACP Legal Defense...
Dates:
1970s, 1980s
Found in:
Special Collections
Reverend John T. Enwright papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1087
Abstract
Reverend John Thomas Enwright (1904-1975), an African American minister, served the congregation at Plymouth Congregational United Church of Christ in Charleston, South Carolina from 1949 to 1974. A public figure as well as a religious leader, Enwright was also heavily involved in Charleston-area community organizations.The collection documents Reverend Enwright's personal life, ministerial work, and civic involvement from the 1930s to 1975. Personal papers document Enwright's...
Dates:
1884-1975
John C. Ruoff papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1027
Abstract
John Carl Ruoff (born 1948) received a Ph.D. in History from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1976, specializing in social and cultural history of the 19th century American South. Starting in 1987, he has worked as Executive and then Research Director for South Carolina Fair Share, a civil rights advocacy group, providing statistical and demographic technical assistance and support to community groups. He has also provided policy analysis and advocacy on consumer, utility,...
Dates:
1972-2002
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- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Charleston Branch (Charleston, S.C.) 3
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- Amos-Frazier, Marjorie, 1926-2010 1
- Beecher Congregational Church (New Orleans, La.) 1
- Carter, Jimmy, 1924- 1
- Centenary United Methodist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
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- Childs, Margaretta Pringle, 1912-2000 1
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- Enwright, John T., 1904-1975 1
- General Council of the Congregational Christian Churches of the United States 1
- MacBeth, Arthur L. 1
- Morris Street Baptist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
- Mt. Zion A.M.E. Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
- Plymouth Congregational Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
- Political Action Committee of Charleston County (Charleston County, S.C.). 1
- Riley, Joseph P., 1943- 1
- Ruoff, John Carl, 1948- 1
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