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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

Lucille Simmons Whipper papers

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Identifier: AMN 1146
Abstract Lucille Simmons Whipper (1928-2021), an educator, guidance counselor, academic administrator, community, and religious leader and the first African-American woman to serve as an State of South Carolina House of Representatives in Charleston's District 109 (1986-1996). She exercised her activism with her graduating class at Avery Institute in their attempts to desegregate the College of Charleston in 1944. Decades later, Whipper was instrumental in working with the State of South Carolina and...
Dates: 1900-2016, undated

Zion-Olivet Presbyterian Church records

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Identifier: AMN 1030
Abstract Zion-Olivet formed in 1959 when two African American congregations in Charleston. S.C., Zion and Olivet, merged. The records in the collection are divided into three main sections, Zion Presbyterian Church, Olivet Presbyterian church and Zion-Olivet Presbyterian church records with numerous series which finacial documents, Kindergarten/Child Child Center, Church members and students, Women's Associations, United Presbyterian Men of Zion-Olivet, and the Presbyterian Church USA/Synod of the...
Dates: 1854-1991, undated

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African American churches -- South Carolina -- Charleston 16
African American churches 9
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Religion 6
Church records and registers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 5
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 4
African American Episcopalians 3
African American churches -- South Carolina -- Johns Island (Island) 3
African American families -- South Carolina -- Charleston 3
African American Congregationalists 2
African American religious leaders 2
African American universities and colleges 2
African American women -- South Carolina -- Societies and clubs -- History 2
African Americans -- Music 2
African Americans -- Sea Islands -- Social life and customs 2
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Social conditions 2
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Johns Island (Island) -- Social life and customs 2
Boards of directors 2
Charleston County (S.C.) 2
Child care 2
Church buildings 2
Church music 2
Community organization 2
Geechees -- South Carolina -- Social life and customs 2
Gospel music 2
Gullahs -- South Carolina -- Social life and customs 2
Hospital Workers' Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1969 2
Oral histories 2
Southern States -- Religious life and customs 2
Spirituals (Songs) 2
administrative records 2
audiocassettes 2
certificates 2
correspondence 2
programs (documents) 2
sermons 2
Adolescence 1
Affirmative action programs 1
African American Baptists -- Georgia -- Savannah 1
African American History Month 1
African American Methodists 1
African American architects -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American cemeteries -- South Carolina 1
African American chemists 1
African American churches -- Georgia -- Savannah 1
African American churches -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Photographs 1
African American elementary schools -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American fraternal organizations 1
African American fraternal organizations -- 20th century -- Photographs 1
African American fraternal organizations -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American men 1
African American nurses -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American optometrists 1
African American photographers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American teachers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American veterans 1
African American women -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 20th century 1
African American women -- South Carolina -- Societies and clubs 1
African American women -- South Carolina -- Societies and clubs -- Photographs 1
African American women in church work 1
African American women in the professions 1
African American women teachers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American women--Religious life 1
African American youth 1
African Americans -- Civil rights 1
African Americans -- Civil rights -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- History 1
African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century 1
African Americans -- Genealogy 1
African Americans -- Georgia -- Savannah -- Religion 1
African Americans -- Georgia -- Savannah -- History 1
African Americans -- History 1
African Americans -- Periodicals 1
African Americans -- Politics and government -- 20th century 1
African Americans -- Religion 1
African Americans -- Societies, etc. -- History 1
African Americans -- Societies, etc. -- Photographs 1
African Americans -- South Carolina 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 19th century 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 20th century 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Societies, etc. -- Photographs 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Genealogy 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Johns Island (Island) -- History -- 20th century 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Johns Island (Island) -- Social conditions 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Segregation 1
Architecture -- Conservation and restoration -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Archives 1
Archivists 1
Associations, institutions, etc. -- African American membership 1
Associations, institutions, etc. -- South Carolina 1
Baptist associations 1
Baptist associations -- South Carolina 1
Baptists -- Georgia -- Savannah -- History 1
Bricklayers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Buildings -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Cannonborough-Elliottborough (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Charleston (S.C.) 1
Charleston (S.C.) -- History 1
Charleston (S.C.) -- Race relations 1
Children 1
Names
Avery Normal Institute 3
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Charleston Branch (Charleston, S.C.) 3
Avery Research Center 2
Baptist Educational & Missionary Convention of South Carolina 2
Benedict College 2
Calvary Episcopal Church (Charleston, S.C.) 2
Carawan, Guy 2
Centenary United Methodist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 2
Clark, Septima Poinsette, 1898-1987 2
Emanuel AME Church (Charleston, S.C.) 2
Hebron Presbyterian Church (Johns Island, S.C.) 2
Hunt, Eugene C. 2
Jenkins, Esau, 1910-1972 2
Morris College (Sumter, S.C.) 2
Mt. Zion A.M.E. Church (Charleston, S.C.) 2
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 2
Plymouth Congregational Church (Charleston, S.C.) 2
Robinson, Bernice, 1914-1994 2
United Church of Christ 2
Whipper, Benjamin James, 1912-1998 2
Whipper, Lucille, 1928-2021 2
African Methodist Episcopal Church 1
Allen University 1
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority 1
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. Gamma Xi Omega Chapter (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Alston, Addie Middleton 1
Andell, Charles John, 1837-1876 1
Andell, William, 1845-1932 1
Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture 1
Baptist Education Center Foundation (North Charleston, S.C.) 1
Baptist Ministers' Wives and Ministers' Widows of Charleston County (S.C.) 1
Baskervill Ministries (Pawleys Island, S.C.) 1
Beecher Congregational Church (New Orleans, La.) 1
Berkeley-Charleston-Dorchester Council of Governments 1
Blake, James G., Rev., 1942-1999 1
Brown, Millicent E. 1
Camp Saint Christopher (Seabrook Island, S.C.) 1
Carawan, Candie 1
Carr, Thomas Tobias, III, 1930-2017 1
Carr, Thomas Tobias, Sr. 1
Central Baptist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Charity Baptist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Charleston County Baptist Association (S.C.) 1
Charleston County Legislative Delegation 1
Charleston County School District 1
Charleston Naval Shipyard 1
Childs, Margaretta Pringle, 1912-2000 1
Chisholm, Shirley, 1924-2005 1
Community Organization Federal Credit Union. 1
Concerned Clergy Committee (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Cornwell, Ruby Pendergrass, 1902-2003 1
Cupp, Ruth Williams, 1928- 1
Daise, Natalie 1
Daise, Ron 1
DeCosta, Herbert A., Sr., 1894-1960 1
DeReef family 1
DeReef, Joseph, 1802-1876 1
DeReef, Richard Edward, 1798-1876 1
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 1
Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Enwright, John T., 1904-1975 1
Episcopal Divinity School 1
First African Baptist Church (Savannah, Ga.) 1
Fleet and Industrial Supply Center (Charleston, S.C.) 1
General Council of the Congregational Christian Churches of the United States 1
Glover, Julia Williams, 1908-2000 1
Gourdine, Julia Alston 1
Graves, J. Michael (James Michael), 1915-1996 1
Greene, Sylvia 1
H. A. DeCosta Company 1
Hebron St. Francis Center (Johns Island, S.C.) 1
Hill, Lily 1
Immaculate Conception School (Charleston, S.C.) 1
James Island Study Committee 1
Jax, Bernadine, Sister 1
Jenkins Orphanage Institute (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Kelly, Irene, Sister, 1913-2011 1
Lecque family 1
Lincoln University (Pa.) 1
MacBeth, Arthur L. 1
Mackey, Naomi Richardson, 1909-1996 1
Mackey, Stephen Bradford McIver, 1901-1984 1
Metz, Francis P., Rev., 1909-1999 1
Miller, Mary S. 1
Miller, Ruth M., 1943- 1
Mitchell, Julian A. (Julian Augustus), 1836-1907 1
Morawetz, Victor, 1859-1938 1
Morris Street Baptist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
National Baptist Convention of the United States of America 1
Olivet Presbyterian Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Order of the Eastern Star. Grand Chapter of South Carolina 1
Orphan Aid Society (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Pennsylvania Freedmen's Relief Association 1
Philadelphia Divinity School 1
Phillis Wheatley Literary and Social Club (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Pivnick, Esther Kaplan, 1913-2001 1
Plymouth Congregational Church (Charleston, S.C.). Board of Trustees 1
Political Action Committee of Charleston County (Charleston County, S.C.). 1
Porter, Anthony Toomer, 1828-1902 1
Pugh family 1