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League of Allied Arts records

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Identifier: AMN 1158
Abstract The League of Allied Arts (LAA) is an organization of Black women who celebrate and help to locally advance a plethora of elements of high culture. The organization was initially founded in Los Angeles, CA, in 1939, however, Edwina Whitlock created a new branch of the organization upon her relocation back to Charleston, South Carolina, in 1986. This collection highlights the documents from its foundation and earliest years, from 1986 to 1988. There are three series. Administrative includes...
Dates: 1983-1988; Majority of material found within 1986-1988

James Logan scrapbooks

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Identifier: AMN 1010
Abstract James Raymond Logan (1874-1958) was the first native Charlestonian to receive a civil service appointment for work at the Charleston Navy Yard, and was the first African American appointee. Logan also directed Logan's Military Band and the choirs of Calvary Protestant Episcopal Church and Zion Presbyterian Church.This collection includes newspaper clippings, programs, photographs and correspondence that originally comprised two scrapbooks (now disbound) created by James Raymond...
Dates: 1896-1961

Millicent E. Brown collection of the Somebody Had To Do It Project

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Identifier: AMN 1148
Abstract The Somebody Had to Do It (SHTDI) Project brought to Claflin University in 2008, under the auspices of the Jonathan Jasper Wright Institute for the Study of Southern African-American History, Culture and Policy. This initiative was designed as a multi-disciplinary research project to identify the “first children” who “sacrificed their youth” in implementing the Brown vs. Board of Education decision of 1954. After the creation of a database identifying the names,...
Dates: 2003-2013, and undated; Majority of material found within 2006 - 2013

Inez Richardson papers

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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

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

St. Mark's Episcopal Church records

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Identifier: AMN 1121
Abstract St. Mark's Episcopal Church was organized as an independent parish in 1865 by a group of prominent black Episcopalians who were without a place to worship- since most of the white Episcopalian churches were evacuated in Charleston as a result of the city's occupation by Union Forces. The church's first service was held on Easter Sunday, April 16, 1865. The congregation continued to grow and in 1870 a lot at the corner of Warren and Thomas Streets in historic Radcliffeborough was purchased...
Dates: 1862-2006

Benjamin James Whipper, Sr., papers

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Identifier: AMN 1147
Abstract Benjamin James Whipper, Sr., (1912-1998), a minister, religious leader, educator, and civic activist. A native of Charleston, South Carolina, Reverend Whipper pastored two churches, Charity Baptist (1949), and Saint Matthew Baptist (1940). Whipper was the Moderator of the Charleston County Baptist Association; the treasurer with the Baptist Educational and Missionary Convention of South Carolina; and the Assistant Secretary on the Executive Board of the National Baptist Convention, USA,...
Dates: approximately 1865-2008, undated

Edwina Harleston Whitlock papers

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Identifier: AMN 1120
Abstract Edwina Augusta Harleston Whitlock was born Gussie Louise Harleston on September 28, 1916 in Charleston, South Carolina, to Robert Othello Harleston and his wife, Marie Isabelle Forrest. She was raised by her uncle, Edwin Augustus Teddy Harleston and his wife Elise Forrest after it was discovered that Whitlock's parents had tuberculosis. Whitlock attended the Avery Normal Institute in Charleston, South Carolina, and Talladega College in Talladega, Alabama, where she...
Dates: 1918-2006

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financial records 5
administrative records 4
clippings (information artifacts) 4
programs (documents) 3
African American women -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Societies and clubs 2
African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
Church records and registers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
Education 2
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annual reports 2
fliers (printed matter) 2
minutes (administrative records) 2
personnel records 2
photocopies 2
photographs 2
African American Episcopalians 1
African American architects -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American art -- South Carolina -- 20th century 1
African American artists 1
African American artists -- South Carolina 1
African American arts -- 20th century -- Exhibitions 1
African American band directors -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American beauty operators 1
African American children -- Institutional care -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
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African American churches 1
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African American civic leaders -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American educators -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American families -- South Carolina 1
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African American high school students -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
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African American women -- South Carolina -- Beaufort 1
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African Americans -- Societies, etc. -- History 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Charities 1
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Beaufort County (S.C.) 1
Beaufort County (S.C.) -- Biography 1
Beaufort County (S.C.) -- Genealogy 1
Beaufort County (S.C.) -- History 1
Beaufort County (S.C.) -- Social conditions 1
Beaufort District (S.C.) 1
Boards of directors 1
Card games 1
Charleston (S.C.) 1
Charleston (S.C.) -- History 1
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Charleston County (S.C.) 1
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Church buildings -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Photographs 1
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Names
Avery Normal Institute 5
Dulaney, W. Marvin, 1950- 2
Harleston family 2
Jenkins Orphanage Institute (Charleston, S.C.) 2
Jenkins' Orphanage Band 2
Orphan Aid Society (Charleston, S.C.) 2
Whitlock, Edwina H. (Edwina Harleston), 1916-2002 2
African American Education and Research Organization 1
African Methodist Episcopal Church 1
American Development Corporation (North Charleston, South Carolina) 1
American Missionary Association 1
Amistad Research Center 1
Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture 1
Avery Research Center 1
Ball, Edward, 1958- 1
Baptist Education Center Foundation (North Charleston, S.C.) 1
Baptist Educational & Missionary Convention of South Carolina 1
Benedict College 1
Brown Fellowship Society (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Brown, Juanita W., 1937-2006 1
Brown, Millicent E. 1
Brown, W. Melvin, Jr., 1934-1994 1
Brownlee, Frederick Leslie, 1883-1962 1
Caffey family 1
Chandler, Karen A. 1
Charity Baptist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Charleston County Baptist Association (S.C.) 1
Charleston County School District 1
Charleston Naval Shipyard 1
Childs, Margaretta Pringle, 1912-2000 1
Claflin University 1
Coastal Community Foundation 1
College of Charleston 1
Cornwell family 1
Curry, Constance, 1933- 1
DeCosta family 1
DeCosta, Frank A. 1
DeCosta, Herbert A., Sr., 1894-1960 1
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority 1
Democratic Party (Charleston County, S.C.) 1
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 1
Durrenberger, E. Paul, 1943- 1
Edison, Robert 1
Emanuel AME Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Entre Nous Bridge Club (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Erem, Suzan 1
Farr (Family : Beaufort County, S.C.) 1
Farr family 1
Farr, Henrietta E. 1
Farr, Joseph M. 1
Farr, Mary Behn 1
Farr, Minerva 1
Fleet and Industrial Supply Center (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Glascoe, Myrtle Gonza 1
H. A. DeCosta Company 1
Harleston, Edwin Augustus, 1882-1931 1
Harleston, Elise F. (Elise Forrest) 1
Holloway family 1
Hoursey, Alphonso H., 1900-1977 1
Howard University 1
Huff family 1
Hunt, Eugene C. 1
International Longshoremen's Association. Local 1422 (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Jenkins Orphanage (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Jenkins, Daniel Joseph, 1862-1937 1
King, Minerva 1
Lawrence family 1
Lawrence, Edward, 1858- 1
League of Allied Arts 1
League of Allied Arts of Charleston, South Carolina 1
Logan, James Reginald, 1874-1958 1
Morris College (Sumter, S.C.) 1
Morris Street Baptist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Morton, Ruth, 1900-1989 1
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Charleston Branch (Charleston, S.C.) 1
National Baptist Convention of the United States of America 1
Payton, George A., 1929-1975 1
Porter, Anthony Toomer, 1828-1902 1
Potts family 1
Potts, John F., Sr., 1908-1998 1
Richardson family 1
Richardson, Inez 1
Richardson, Roscoe 1
Sanford family 1
Seabrook family 1
Shrewsbury, Eliza 1
Smith, Robert Lee, 1958-2019 1
Somebody Had To Do It (Project) 1
St. Mark's Protestant Episcopal Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
St. Matthew Baptist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Talladega College 1
United Order of Tents 1
United States. Brown v. Board of Education 50th Anniversary Commission 1
United States. Navy 1
Washington, Samuel Walter, 1901-1978 1
Whipper, Benjamin James, 1912-1998 1
Whipper, Lucille, 1928-2021 1
Williams Lessane, Patricia 1
Williams, John T. 1
Young Women's Christian Associations. Charleston, S.C 1