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Charleston Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People records
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1117
Abstract
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was started on February 12, 1909, partly in response to the prevalence of lynching of African-Americans in America and the 1908 race riot that occurred in Springfield, Illinois. The Charleston Branch of the NAACP was founded in February 1917 by Edwin Harleston. The branch was established to advocate for the rights of African-Americans in South Carolina and Charleston. The Charleston NAACP serves as a space for...
Dates:
1920-1995, undated; Majority of material found within 1973-1994
Ebony City Soccer Club collection
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1157
Abstract
The Ebony City Soccer Club collection highlights the victories and defeats of the Lil' Pele's team in Charleston, South Carolina from 1981-1996. Osei Chandler, founder and president, among several community members were inspired by soccer great, Euston Arantes Do Nascimento, known as "Pele," to physically and mentally inspire inner-city youth. The collection holds newspaper articles, playing rosters, game plays, budgets, event programs, summer camp documents, thank you letters written by the...
Dates:
1981-1996
Lucille Simmons Whipper papers
Collection
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
Woman's Baptist Educational and Missionary Convention of South Carolina
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1037
Abstract
The Woman's Baptist Educational and Missionary Convention of South Carolina (WBEMC) collection consist mostly of published annual session minutes (many photocopied), event programs, organizational and committee papers documenting the women and youth auxiliaries of the Baptist Educational and Missionary Convention of South Carolina (BEMC) from 1888 to 2007. Included are materials from other local, state and national organizations within the Baptist community, such as meeting minutes, event...
Dates:
1867-2007, undated
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- Chisholm, Shirley, 1924-2005 1
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- Gordon, Ethel, 1911-2004 1
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- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Charleston Branch (Charleston, S.C.) 1
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Freedom Fund Program 1
- National Baptist Convention of the United States of America 1
- Pelé, 1940- 1
- Whipper, Benjamin James, 1912-1998 1
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