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William "Bill" Saunders papers

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1100
Abstract William (Bill) Saunders, was an organizer and lead negotiator of the Charleston Hospital Stike of 1969. In 1970, Saunders established the Committee on Better Racial Assurance (COBRA) to address race-related community problems and provide assistance to community members in need. He also operated the AM radio station WPAL from 1972-1998. This collection includes materials relating to the personal and professional life of Saunders. A very small portion of the papers contains...
Dates: approximately 1950-2004

Cleveland L. Sellers, Jr. papers

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1017
Abstract Cleveland Sellers, Jr. (born 1944), an African American from Denmark, South Carolina, was a participant and leader of a variety of student, civil rights, leftist, and Pan African movements in the 1960s and 1970s. Sellers alone was indicted and convicted for inciting a riot during the Orangeburg Massacre, in which three students of South Carolina State University died and many others were wounded; Sellers was later pardoned.The majority of the collection details Cleveland L....
Dates: 1934-2003

South Carolina Civil and Human Rights Anthology

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Identifier: AMN 1197
Abstract The South Carolina Civil and Human Rights Anthology is an oral history project containing 18 interviews conducted by the Avery Research Center in 2004 and 2007. Participants discuss their family history and their involvement in organizing and activism work in South Carolina. Topics discussed include labor organizing and labor strikes, demonstrations during the Civil Rights Movement such as sit-ins and marches, voter registration and voter turnout efforts, the Orangeburg Massacre, and the...
Dates: 2004-2007

South Carolina Voices of the Civil Rights Movement Conference

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Identifier: AMN 1196
Abstract The South Carolina Voices of the Civil Rights Movement Conference collection documents the 1982 conference held by the Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture. The conference hosted community organizers and scholars to discuss the Civil Rights Movement in South Carolina with sessions on voting and political action, labor, education, the culture of the movement, the Highlander influence, the youth movement, civic and political action, and redress and protest. Oral histories were...
Dates: 1982

Southern Committee to Free All Political Prisoners papers

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Identifier: Mss 0034-167
Collection Overview This collection consists of 5 documents related to the Southern Committee to Free All Political Prisoners. The first document is dated December 1973 and contains a description of cases and events used to build support for the Southern Committee to Free All Political Prisoners; the second sheet contains a petition to free Thomas Wansley. The second document, entitled "People's petition demanding justice for the Attica indictees," contains a list of grievances against Attica Prison; on the...
Dates: 1972-1973

William Saxon Wilson papers

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Identifier: AMN 1038
Abstract

The William Saxon Wilson papers mostly consists of business cards, invitations, event programs, broadsides, and various ephemera created in his business, The Sax Print Shop, which document social, church, educational, and other aspects of African-American life in Charleston, South Carolina.

Dates: 1913-1983; Majority of material found in 1920-1982

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Hospital Workers' Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1969 10
African Americans -- Civil rights -- South Carolina -- Charleston 8
African Americans -- Civil rights -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 20th century 6
African Americans -- Civil rights 5
African Americans -- Civil rights -- South Carolina 5
Civil rights 5
Civil rights movements -- South Carolina -- Charleston 5
African American Activists 4
Charleston (S.C.) -- Race relations 4
Civil rights movements -- United States 4
Hospitals -- Employees -- Labor unions -- South Carolina -- Charleston 4
Oral histories 4
clippings (information artifacts) 4
correspondence 4
transcripts 4
African American civil rights workers -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century 3
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 demonstrations 3
Civil rights workers -- United States 3
Gullahs 3
Political action committees -- South Carolina 3
Race discrimination -- South Carolina -- History 3
South Carolina -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century 3
Southern States -- Race relations 3
African American civil rights workers 2
African American civil rights workers -- United States 2
African American college teachers 2
African American labor union members -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
African American political activists -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
African American soldiers 2
African American universities and colleges 2
African Americans -- Education 2
African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
African Americans -- Politics and government 2
African Americans -- South Carolina 2
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 2
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 20th century 2
African Americans -- Suffrage -- South Carolina 2
Bridge clubs 2
Charleston (S.C.) -- History -- 20th century 2
Civic leaders -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
Civil rights lawyers -- South Carolina 2
Cold War 2
Community organizers 2
Conferences 2
Discrimination in education -- South Carolina 2
Education -- South Carolina -- Johns Island (Island) 2
Geechees 2
Legislators -- United States 2
Political participation 2
Race discrimination -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 2
School integration 2
School integration -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 2
Segregation -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
South Carolina -- Politics and government -- 20th century 2
Speeches 2
United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century 2
United States -- Race relations 2
Voter registration -- Southern States 2
bills (legislative records) 2
congressional committee records 2
congressional committee reports 2
legislative records 2
memorandums 2
personal correspondence 2
scrapbooks 2
sermons 2
Activism 1
Activists 1
Africa -- Periodicals 1
African American Baptists 1
African American Congregationalists 1
African American basket makers 1
African American business enterprises 1
African American businesspeople -- South Carolina 1
African American businesspeople -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American children -- Education -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American churches -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American civic leaders -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American college students 1
African American dentists 1
African American educators 1
African American educators -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American educators -- United States -- 20th century 1
African American jazz musicians -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American musicians 1
African American neighborhoods -- South Carolina 1
African American police -- South Carolina -- Charleston County -- Biography 1
African American political activists -- United States -- 20th century 1
African American politicians 1
African American radio stations -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American religious leaders 1
African American school principals -- New York (State) -- New York -- 20th century 1
African American social reformers -- United States -- 20th century 1
African American stevedores -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 21st century 1
African American students -- Mississippi -- 20th century 1
African American teachers -- New York (State) -- New York -- 20th century 1
Names
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Charleston Branch (Charleston, S.C.) 9
Avery Normal Institute 4
Brown, Millicent E. 4
Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.) 4
Southern Christian Leadership Conference 4
Allen University 3
Brown, J. Arthur, 1914-1988 3
International Longshoremen's Association 3
Jenkins, Esau, 1910-1972 3
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 3
Moultrie, Mary, 1943-2015 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
Clark, Septima Poinsette, 1898-1987 2
College of Charleston. Library 2
Committee on Better Racial Assurance 2
Horton, Myles, 1905-1990 2
Jackson, Jesse, 1941- 2
King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006 2
Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005 2
Robinson, Bernice, 1914-1994 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
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
Cornwell, Ruby Pendergrass, 1902-2003 1
Cottonreader, R. B. 1
Crawford, Robert, 1953- 1
Curnell, Denzel, 1995-2014 1
Curry, Constance, 1933- 1
Dabbs, James McBride, 1896-1970 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
Doster, Lillie M., 1922-2015 1
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 1
Duckett, Dewey M., 1900-1964 1
Duckett, Dewey M., 1929-2012 1
Emanuel AME Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1