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Jenkins Orphanage records and exhibit
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1063
Abstract
Charleston (S.C.) orphanage for African American children, founded in 1891 by Rev. Daniel Joseph Jenkins. The Orphan Aid Society (chartered 1892) was the governing board of the orphanage. Organized by members of the church where Rev. Jenkins was pastor, the Society furnished much of the financial support for the orphanage's efforts to provide education, training, skills, and care to orphans, half orphans, and wayward and destitute children. After Jenkins' death his widow, Mrs. Eloise C....
Dates:
1891-1991
League of Allied Arts records
Collection
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
Collection
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
Benjamin James Whipper, Sr., papers
Collection
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
Collection
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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- Whitlock, Edwina H. (Edwina Harleston), 1916-2002 2
- Avery Normal Institute 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
- Charity Baptist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
- Charleston County Baptist Association (S.C.) 1
- Charleston Naval Shipyard 1
- Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 1
- Fleet and Industrial Supply Center (Charleston, S.C.) 1
- Harleston, Edwin Augustus, 1882-1931 1
- Harleston, Elise F. (Elise Forrest) 1
- Howard University 1
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- Jenkins Orphanage Institute (Charleston, S.C.) 1
- Jenkins, Daniel Joseph, 1862-1937 1
- King, Minerva 1
- League of Allied Arts 1
- Logan, James Reginald, 1874-1958 1
- Morris College (Sumter, S.C.) 1
- National Baptist Convention of the United States of America 1
- Potts family 1
- St. Matthew Baptist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
- Talladega College 1
- United States. Navy 1
- Whipper, Benjamin James, 1912-1998 1
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