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J. Arthur Brown papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1074
Abstract
J. Arthur Brown was born in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1914. After graduating from the Avery Institute in 1932, he continued his education at South Carolina State College in Orangeburg, SC, graduating in 1937. While at SCSC, Brown met his future wife MaeDe Esperanza Myers (1918-2012), marrying in 1940. The couple had three daughters: MaeDe Joenelle Gordon, Minerva King, and Dr. Millicent Brown; and one son, Myles Gregory Brown. He fathered a second son, Albert Wayne Gourdine, who was...
Dates:
1937-1989; Majority of material found within 1950-1988
Septima P. Clark papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1000
Abstract
Septima Poinsette Clark (1898-1987) was born in Charleston, South Carolina to Peter Porcher Poinsette and Victoria Anderson. Clark attended small private schools and Avery Institute, getting a teacher's certificate in 1916. She married Nerie Clark (1889-1925) of North Carolina, a navy cook in 1920; they had one surviving child Nerie Clark, Jr. (born 1925). Clark received her BA from Benedict College in 1942 and an MA from Hampton Institute in 1946. She taught in various schools throughout...
Dates:
approximately 1910-1990
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- Allen University 1
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- Carawan, Candie 1
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- Carmichael, Stokely, 1941-1998 1
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- Horton, Zilphia, 1910-1956 1
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- Jenkins, Esau, 1910-1972 1
- King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006 1
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 1
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Charleston Branch (Charleston, S.C.) 1
- Omega Psi Phi Fraternity 1
- Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005 1
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- Robinson, Bernice, 1914-1994 1
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