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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

College of Charleston Library vertical file on civil rights

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Identifier: Mss 0034-063
Collection Overview

The collection consists of materials gathered by the staff of the Robert Scott Small Library at the College of Charleston, South Carolina. It includes numerous documents published by state, federal, and private sources concerning "civil rights" in the United States.

Dates: 1973-2000

College of Charleston vertical file on "The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People"

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Identifier: Mss 0034-121
Collection Overview The collection consists of materials gathered by the staff of the Robert Scott Small Library at the College of Charleston, South Carolina. It includes 6 pamphlets covering NAACP membership, organizational information, and current programs in various regions of the United States. The file also includes 2 reports. One report covers the 62nd Annual Convention and Resolutions of the NAACP from July 4-July 9, 1971 in Minneapolis, Minnesota (7 pages). The second report is the NAACP Legal Defense...
Dates: 1970s, 1980s

Ruby Pendergrass Cornwell papers

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Identifier: AMN 1039
Abstract Ruby P. Cornwell, a native of Foreston, SC, earned a B.A. from Talladega in 1925 and taught English for many years. In Charleston she was active in Plymouth Congregational Church and served on the boards of several organizations, including the Charleston Branch of the NAACP. Through her work with the NAACP she developed close ties to U.S. District Judge Julius Waites Waring and his wife, Elizabeth. Judge Waring presided over several noted civil rights cases-ruling for integration and equal...
Dates: 1944-2003; 1944-1974; Majority of material found within 1950-1969

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

Documenting the Arc Oral History Collection

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Identifier: AMN 1168
Abstract The Documenting the Arc Oral History Collection is a series of video oral history interviews conducted between fall 2021 and summer 2022 by Dr. Millicent Brown and Cedar Wolf Media using grant funds from the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation. The interviews document the experiences of activists, organizers, artists, clergy, journalists, and other community members who were members or affiliates of Black Lives Matter Charleston (2014-2018) and other local grassroots organizations in...
Dates: 2021-2022

Dr. Dewey M. Duckett, Sr. papers

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Identifier: AMN 1040
Collection Overview The collection contains three series. The first series consists of correspondence mainly regarding civil rights. The second series contains writings, speeches, and lectures related to Duckett's position as a doctor, civil rights activist, and member of the Council on Human Relatoins. The third series addresses duckett's affiliations such as the Palmetto Medical, Dental and Pharmaceutical Association, the S.C. Commission on Civil Rights, and the Practical Nursing Program. It also includes...
Dates: 1949-1989; Majority of material found within 1952-1964

Reverend John T. Enwright papers

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Identifier: AMN 1087
Abstract Reverend John Thomas Enwright (1904-1975), an African American minister, served the congregation at Plymouth Congregational United Church of Christ in Charleston, South Carolina from 1949 to 1974. A public figure as well as a religious leader, Enwright was also heavily involved in Charleston-area community organizations.The collection documents Reverend Enwright's personal life, ministerial work, and civic involvement from the 1930s to 1975. Personal papers document Enwright's...
Dates: 1884-1975

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

Joseph Fromberg letter

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Identifier: Mss 1034-055
Collection Overview Carbon typescript letter, dated August 10, 1948. Fromberg gives a lengthy history of himself and his position in the state. He then defends Judge J. Waties Waring for his recent decision to open up the Democratic Primary to African Americans, noting that he may not agree with Waring but defends his right to interpret the law. Fromberg objects to suggestions for actions made by Dorn, saying that such methods will undermine and destroy the government; he links Dorn to bigots and raises the...
Dates: 1948

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Hospital Workers' Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1969 11
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clippings (information artifacts) 4
correspondence 4
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century 3
African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina 3
African Americans -- Politics and government -- 20th century 3
Cigar Factory Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1945-1946 3
Civil rights workers -- United States 3
Community organizers 3
Gullahs 3
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African American churches -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
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memorandums 2
personal correspondence 2
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Charleston Branch (Charleston, S.C.) 11
Brown, Millicent E. 5
Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.) 5
Southern Christian Leadership Conference 5
Avery Normal Institute 4
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 4
Moultrie, Mary, 1943-2015 4
Robinson, Bernice, 1914-1994 4
Allen University 3
Brown, J. Arthur, 1914-1988 3
Clark, Septima Poinsette, 1898-1987 3
International Longshoremen's Association 3
Jenkins, Esau, 1910-1972 3
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 3
Saunders, William, 1935- 3
Voorhees College 3
Waring, Julius Waties, 1880-1968 3
Williams, Hosea, 1926-2000 3
Young, Andrew, 1932- 3
Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990 2
Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture 2
Avery Research Center 2
Bennett, Isaiah, 1926-2002 2
Bethel United Methodist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 2
Blacks United for Action 2
Brown family 2
Brown, MaeDe E. M., 1918-2012 2
Carawan, Candie 2
Carawan, Guy 2
Carmichael, Stokely, 1941-1998 2
Charleston County School District 2
Citizens' Committee of Charleston (Charleston, S.C.) 2
College of Charleston. Library 2
Committee on Better Racial Assurance 2
Cornwell, Ruby Pendergrass, 1902-2003 2
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 2
Horton, Myles, 1905-1990 2
Jackson, Jesse, 1941-2026 2
King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006 2
Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005 2
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.) 2
United States Commission on Civil Rights. South Carolina Advisory Committee 2
Waring, Elizabeth 2
A. Philip Randolph Institute 1
African American Education and Research Organization 1
Al-Amin, Jamil, 1943- 1
Alexander, Camille D. 1
All-African People's Revolutionary Party 1
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority 1
American Civil Liberties Union 1
American Civil Liberties Union of South Carolina 1
American Indian Movement 1
American Tobacco Company 1
Amos-Frazier, Marjorie, 1926-2010 1
Attica Prison 1
Beecher Congregational Church (New Orleans, La.) 1
Benedict College 1
Bennett College (Greensboro, N.C.) 1
Black Lives Matter Charleston (2014-2018) (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Black Panther Party 1
Blake, J. Herman 1
Blake, James G., Rev., 1942-1999 1
Bouffard, Jean Claude 1
Brown, Mattie 1
Campbell, James E., 1925-2021 1
Carson, Josephine, 1919- 1
Carter, Rosalynn 1
Centenary United Methodist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Charleston Area Community Relations Committee (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Charleston City Paper (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Charleston County (S.C.). Police Department 1
Charleston County School District No. 20 (S.C.) 1
Charleston Jewish Federation (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Charleston Naval Shipyard 1
Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina 1
Claflin University 1
Cleaver, Eldridge, 1935-1998 1
Clyburn, James 1
Cole, John S. 1
College of Charleston 1
College of Charleston. Governor's School 1
Coming Street YWCA (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Communist Workers Party (U.S.) 1
Community Action Program (U.S.) 1
Community Organization Credit Union 1
Community Organization Federal Credit Union. 1
Concerned Clergy Committee (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Congress of African Peoples 1
Cottonreader, R. B. 1
Crawford, Robert, 1953- 1
Curnell, Denzel, 1995-2014 1
Curry, Constance, 1933- 1
Dabbs, James McBride, 1896-1970 1
Daise, Natalie 1
Daise, Ron 1
Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944- 1
Democratic Party (S.C.) 1
Derfner, Armand 1
Deweese family 1
Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005 1