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Dr. Dewey M. Duckett, Sr. papers
Collection
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
Esau Jenkins papers, 1963-2003
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1004
Abstract
Esau Jenkins (1910-1972) was born and raised on Johns Island, South Carolina. With very little formal education, he became a businessman and civil rights leader.The collection contains biographical papers, correspondence, writings, and information about his affliations, including the Progressive Club, Citizen's Committee of Charleston, Community Organization Credit Union, Political Action Committee of Charleston County, Political Awareness League of Charleston County, and the...
Dates:
1963-2003
Judge J. Waties and Elizabeth Waring papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1033
Abstract
Julius Waties Waring (1880-1968), a Charleston native and attorney became a Federal Judge in 1942. At the time of his divorce and remarriage in 1945 to Elizabeth A. Hoffman (1895-1966), he began to hand down more liberal decisions, such as equalizing the pay of black and white teachers and outlawing South Carolina's white-only Democratic Primary. He soon ruled that separate but equal was per se inequality. Because he and his wife socialized with African Americans and held...
Dates:
approximately 1947-1964
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- Political action committees -- South Carolina 2
- African American businesspeople -- South Carolina 1
- African American dentists 1
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- South Carolina 1
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- South Carolina -- Rock Hill -- History 1
- African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina 1
- African Americans -- Politics and government -- South Carolina 1
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston County -- History 1
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Johns Island (Island) -- Social conditions 1
- African Americans -- Suffrage -- South Carolina 1
- African Americans in medicine -- South Carolina 1
- Discrimination in education -- Law and legislation -- South Carolina -- History 1
- Hospital Workers' Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1969 1
- Legal assistance to the poor -- South Carolina 1
- Literacy tests (Election law) -- South Carolina 1
- Police-community relations -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Practical nursing 1
- Segregation in education -- South Carolina -- History 1
- Voting -- United States 1 + ∧ less
- Names
- Marshall, Thurgood, 1908-1993 2
- Alexander, Camille D. 1
- Briggs, Harry, -1986 1
- Charleston Area Community Relations Committee (Charleston, S.C.) 1
- Citizens' Committee of Charleston (Charleston, S.C.) 1
- Clark, Septima Poinsette, 1898-1987 1
- Community Organization Credit Union 1
- Cornwell, Ruby Pendergrass, 1902-2003 1
- Dabbs, James McBride, 1896-1970 1
- Duckett, Dewey M., 1900-1964 1
- Duckett, Dewey M., 1929-2012 1
- Elliott, R. W. 1
- Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.) 1
- Jenkins family 1
- Jenkins, Esau, 1910-1972 1
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Charleston Branch (Charleston, S.C.) 1
- Palmetto Medical, Dental, and Pharmaceutical Association 1
- Political Action Committee of Charleston County (Charleston County, S.C.) 1
- Progressive Club (Charleston, S.C.) 1
- South Carolina Council on Human Relations 1
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference 1
- United States Commission on Civil Rights. South Carolina Advisory Committee 1
- University of South Carolina. School of Law 1
- Waring, Elizabeth 1
- Waring, Julius Waties, 1880-1968 1
- Wrighten, John H. 1
- Young Women's Christian Associations. Charleston, S.C 1 + ∧ less
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