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Avery Research Center Averyite oral histories

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Identifier: AMN 1193
Abstract The Avery Research Center Averyite oral histories collection brings together individual oral histories conducted by Avery Research Center employees with Averyites (students, graduates, teachers, and descendants) to discuss their time at the Avery Normal Institute and their professional and personal lives after they attended the school. A handful of oral histories with Averyites that were donated to the Avery Research Center, but not conducted by Avery Research Center employees, are also...
Dates: 1976-2009

Avery Research Center Lowcountry oral histories

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Identifier: AMN 1195
Abstract The Avery Research Center Lowcountry oral histories collection brings together individual oral history interviews mostly conducted by Avery Research Center employees with people who are from the South Carolina Lowcountry or lived and worked in the Lowcountry while adults. A handful of oral histories that were donated to the Avery Research Center, but not conducted by Avery Research Center employees, are also included in this collection. A wide range of topics are discussed in these oral...
Dates: 1976-2019

Isaiah Bennett papers

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Identifier: AMN 1056
Abstract Isaiah Bennett (1926-2002) served as a union representative for tobacco workers at the American Tobacco Company's Cigar Factory and as a leader and negotiator of the Charleston Hospital Workers' Strike of 1969. Bennett also founded and was president of the Charleston chapter of the A. Phillip Randolph Institute, an umbrella organization for black trade unions.This collection contains five small series that pertain to the life and career of Isaiah Bennett. 1.)...
Dates: 1932-2002

J. Arthur and MaeDe Brown papers

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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, J. Arthur 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,...
Dates: 1890-2013; Majority of material found within 1950-1988

Millicent E. Brown papers

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Identifier: AMN 1003
Abstract Millicent Ellison Brown (b. 1948) is an educator and civil rights activist. Born in Charleston to MaeDe and J. Arthur Brown, local and state president of NAACP (1955-1965), Brown, in 1963, replaced her older sister Minerva as the primary plaintiff in a NAACP-sponsored lawsuit (Millicent Brown vs. Charleston County School District #20).The collection consists of personal and professional documents, correspondence, and newspaper clippings relating to Millicent Brown's experience...
Dates: 1907-2024

"Charleston Hospital Workers' Strike" rough draft (photocopy)

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Identifier: Mss 0034-102
Collection Overview The paper is a typed rough draft with hand written corrections. It describes the Hospital workers' strike at the Medical College of South Carolina in 1969. The author is not identified, but a handwritten note reveals that the document was written in 1982. The paper discusses the role played by Mary Moultrie, the leader of the strike, and William McCord, the college president, in the strike. The strike was a protest by African-American, predominantly female, hospital workers for better...
Dates: 1982

Septima P. Clark papers

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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

Armand Derfner legal papers

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Identifier: AMN 1049
Abstract Armand Derfner, b. 1938, has been a litigator in private practice in Charleston, SC, since 1974. He has litigated civil rights cases since the Voting Rights Act of 1965 went into effect in August 1968, when Derfner represented voters in Greenwood, Mississippi. He has gained national renown as a civil rights attorney, having won five cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. The Armand Derfner legal papers document his work since establishing his practice in Charleston in 1974. The papers are...
Dates: 1973-1995

Steve Estes papers

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Identifier: AMN 1055
Abstract

The collection consists of primary and secondary sources used by Steve Estes to write his master’s thesis drawing comparison from the Memphis sanitation workers’ strike of 1968 and Charleston Hospital workers’ strike of 1969. Estes interviewed people who were closely associated with these movements and also consists of an analysis of newspaper clippings that capture these movements.

Dates: 1967-1996

Cambridge Jenkins papers

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Identifier: AMN 1173
Abstract Cambridge Jenkins, Jr., joined the Charleston Police Department in 1950, becoming one of the first African American policemen in the Department. With a promotion in 1955 he became the first African- American detective on that force. He joined the State Law Enforcement Division (SLED) in 1961. Detective Jenkins later returned to the Charleston Police Department until 1963. He was appointed as the first minority United State Deputy Marshal for the Southeastern District of South Carolina. He...
Dates: 1946-1994

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African Americans -- Civil rights -- South Carolina -- Charleston 8
Hospital Workers' Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1969 8
African Americans -- Civil rights -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 20th century 6
Hospitals -- Employees -- Labor unions -- South Carolina -- Charleston 4
transcripts 4
African American civil rights workers -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century 3
Cigar Factory Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1945-1946 3
Civil rights movements -- South Carolina -- Charleston 3
Civil rights movements -- United States 3
Oral histories 3
African American activists 2
African American labor union members -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
African American political activists -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
African American soldiers 2
African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 20th century 2
Bridge clubs 2
Civic leaders -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
Civil rights 2
Civil rights demonstrations 2
Civil rights lawyers -- South Carolina 2
Community organizers 2
Gullahs 2
School integration -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 2
African American basket makers 1
African American business enterprises 1
African American businesspeople -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American children -- Education -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American civic leaders -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American civil rights workers 1
African American civil rights workers -- United States 1
African American college teachers 1
African American educators 1
African American educators -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American jazz musicians -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American musicians 1
African American police -- South Carolina -- Charleston County -- Biography 1
African American radio stations -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American stevedores -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 21st century 1
African American universities and colleges 1
African American women -- Social conditions 1
African American women -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Societies and clubs 1
African American women -- South Carolina -- Societies and clubs 1
African American women civil rights workers 1
African American women teachers 1
African Americans -- Civil rights 1
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century 1
African Americans -- Civil rights -- South Carolina 1
African Americans -- Education 1
African Americans -- Politics and government -- 20th century 1
African Americans -- Sea Islands -- Social life and customs 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Atlantic Beach -- History 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Social life and customs 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Johns Island (Island) -- History -- 20th century 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Johns Island (Island) -- Social life and customs 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Politics and government -- 20th century 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Politics and government -- History -- 20th century 1
African Americans -- Suffrage -- South Carolina 1
African Americans in the civil service 1
Apportionment (Election law) -- South Carolina 1
Atlantic Beach (S.C.) 1
Boycotts -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- 20th century 1
Bus lines -- South Carolina 1
Charleston (S.C.) -- History -- 20th century 1
Charleston (S.C.) -- Race relations 1
Charleston (S.C.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century 1
Charleston County (S.C.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century 1
Civil Rights Attorney’s Fees Awards Act of 1976 1
Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- Greenwood 1
Civil rights workers -- United States 1
Class actions (Civil procedure) -- South Carolina 1
Community health services -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Community health services -- South Carolina -- Johns Island (Island) 1
Conferences 1
Constitutional law -- South Carolina 1
Courts -- South Carolina 1
Daufuskie Island (S.C.) -- Social conditions 1
Direct action 1
Drayton Hall (S.C.) -- History 1
Education -- South Carolina -- Johns Island (Island) 1
Election districts -- South Carolina 1
Elections 1
Electric utilities -- Deregulation -- United States 1
Enslaved persons -- South Carolina -- Colleton County 1
Factories -- Employees -- Labor unions -- South Carolina 1
Geechees 1
Gullahs -- South Carolina -- Social life and customs 1
Insurance -- South Carolina 1
Johns Island (S.C. : Island) -- Economic conditions 1
Johns Island (S.C. : Island) -- History -- 20th century 1
Literacy -- South Carolina -- History 1
McLeod Plantation (Charleston County, S.C.) 1
Mount Pleasant (S.C.) 1
Myrtle Grove Plantation (Colleton County, S.C.) 1
Newborn infants -- Effect of drugs on 1
Nonprofit organizations -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 20th century 1
Nonprofit organizations -- South Carolina -- Johns Island (Island) -- 20th century 1
Orangeburg Massacre, Orangeburg, S.C., 1968 1
Political action committees -- South Carolina 1
Political participation 1
Names
Brown, J. Arthur, 1914-1988 3
Moultrie, Mary, 1943-2015 3
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Charleston Branch (Charleston, S.C.) 3
Saunders, William, 1935- 3
Southern Christian Leadership Conference 3
Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990 2
Avery Normal Institute 2
Bennett, Isaiah, 1926-2002 2
Brown family 2
Brown, MaeDe E. M., 1918-2012 2
Brown, Millicent E. 2
Committee on Better Racial Assurance 2
Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.) 2
International Longshoremen's Association 2
King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006 2
Voorhees College 2
Williams, Hosea, 1926-2000 2
Young, Andrew, 1932- 2
A. Philip Randolph Institute 1
Allen University 1
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority 1
American Civil Liberties Union 1
American Civil Liberties Union of South Carolina 1
American Tobacco Company 1
Amos-Frazier, Marjorie, 1926-2010 1
Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture 1
Avery Research Center 1
Bennett College (Greensboro, N.C.) 1
Bethel United Methodist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Blacks United for Action 1
Blake, J. Herman 1
Carawan, Candie 1
Carawan, Guy 1
Carmichael, Stokely, 1941-1998 1
Carson, Josephine, 1919- 1
Carter, Rosalynn 1
Charleston County (S.C.). Police Department 1
Charleston County School District 1
Charleston County School District No. 20 (S.C.) 1
Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina 1
Citizens' Committee of Charleston (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Clark, Septima Poinsette, 1898-1987 1
Cole, John S. 1
College of Charleston 1
College of Charleston. Governor's School 1
Cottonreader, R. B. 1
Crawford, Robert, 1953- 1
Derfner, Armand 1
Doster, Lillie M., 1922-2015 1
Estes, Steve, 1972- 1
Fielding, Bernard R., Sr., 1932-2020 1
Fielding, Herbert U., 1923-2015 1
Fink, Leon, 1948- 1
Florida State University 1
Frazier, Herb, 1950- 1
Goodwin, Willis 1
Guilford College 1
Horton, Myles, 1905-1990 1
Horton, Zilphia, 1910-1956 1
Howard University 1
International Longshoremen's Association. Local 1422 (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Jackson, Jesse, 1941- 1
Jefferson, Jessie 1
Jenkins, Cambridge, Jr. 1
Jenkins, Esau, 1910-1972 1
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 1
McCord, William M. (William Mellen), 1907-1996 1
McCray, Jack 1
McCray, John Henry, 1910-1987 1
Medical College of South Carolina (1952-1969) 1
Medical University of South Carolina 1
Moore, Fred H., 1934- 1
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 1
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University 1
Omega Psi Phi Fraternity 1
Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005 1
Penn Community Services 1
Phillis Wheatley Literary and Social Club (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Retail Drug Store Employees Union, Local 1199B (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union. Local 15-A (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Richard, Carole M., 1948- 1
Riley, Joseph P., 1943- 1
Riley, Richard W. (Richard Wilson) 1
Rivers High School (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Robinson, Bernice, 1914-1994 1
Ruoff, John Carl, 1948- 1
South Carolina Electric & Gas Company 1
South Carolina Electric & Gas Company. Transit Department 1
South Carolina Fair Share 1
South Carolina Federation of Colored Women's Clubs 1
South Carolina State University 1
United States (Title of work: Civil Rights Attorney's Fees Awards Act of 1976) 1
United States (Title of work: Voting Rights Act of 1965) 1
United States Commission on Civil Rights. South Carolina Advisory Committee 1
United States. Marine Corps 1
United Way of America 1
Waring, Elizabeth 1
Waring, Julius Waties, 1880-1968 1
Washington, McKinley, Jr., Rev., 1936-2022 1
Whipper, Benjamin James, 1912-1998 1