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"Sherman's Raid Through Camden, South Carolina" typescript
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-019
Collection Overview
The collection consists of an essay read by Davis before the Richard Kirkland Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy in Camden, South Carolina in June of 1906. The work is titled Sherman's Raid Through Camden, South Carolina. In the essay, Davis discussed her memories and experiences during the war.
Dates:
1906 June
Found in:
Special Collections
Albert Simons papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0044
Collection Overview
Papers consist of Simons' writings, correspondence, sketchbooks, clippings, prints, and miscellaneous items.Simons' writings include lecture notes (many on index cards) and essays on subjects such as church architecture, French history, Robert Mills, the architecture of Charleston (S.C.), Greek temples, and Sir Christopher Wren.Letters (1908-1977) are mostly Simons' personal and professional correspondence with various individuals, family members, and organizations,...
Dates:
1908-1977
Found in:
Special Collections
Small-Whaley family papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0035
Collection Overview
Collection contains papers of Robert Scott Small (1915-2007) and his father Robert Scott Small (1891-1931), and genealogical material, correspondence, photographs, memorabilia, and miscellaneous items concerning the Small and Whaley families. Papers (1937-1994) of Robert Scott Small (1915-2007) consist of his correspondence, transcriptions of his speeches, awards, resolutions, honors, scrapbooks of clippings concerning the Robert Scott Small Library at the College of Charleston (Charleston,...
Dates:
1796-1994
Found in:
Special Collections
South Carolina Association of Colleges records
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0080
Collection Overview
Two bound volumes (primarily mimeographs, last sheets are loose) containing minutes, correspondence, agenda, financial reports, the names of members (individuals and organizations), reports, and related materials to the South Carolina Association of Colleges. Topics discussed at meetings in volume 1 (1945 Feb. 9-1954 April 23) which contains a brief summary about the early years of the Association and volume 2 (1955 May 6-1965 Oct. 29) include the enrichment of curriculas in high school and...
Dates:
1945-1965
Found in:
Special Collections
South Carolina Civil and Human Rights Anthology
Collection
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 Court of Common Pleas records
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-073
Collection Overview
Judgments of the South Carolina Court of Common Pleas levied against debtors (their goods, chattles, lands, and other hereditaments and real estate) for the recovery of moneys owed. Cases include: Ebenezer Simmons, Benjamin Smith, and James Nott versus Nathanael Snow of St. James Goose Creek (1748 Jan. 3); James Reid versus Henry Varnor, a Christ Church Parish planter (1748 Oct. 1); John
McCall versus William Brown (1748 July 5); Maurice Harvey and Robert Philip, Charles Town [Charleston]...
Dates:
1748-1812
Found in:
Special Collections
South Carolina Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign records
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-074
Collection Overview
This collection consists of campaign statement from the organization, a pamphlet and a donation form. The statement of campaign goals is written by Kenneth C. Leskawa. The pamphlet details several arms reduction proposals.
Dates:
1982
Found in:
Special Collections
South Carolina Rosenwald Schools collection
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1152
Abstract
The Rosenwald Schools Initiative was founded by Tuskegee Institute founder, Booker T. Washington and Sears and Roebuck Co. president, Julius Rosenwald in 1912. Washington saw the need to build schools for African Americans, particularly in rural areas across the South and Rosenwald was looking for a charitable opportunity to support and expressed interest in the plight of the Black community. Although Washington passed away in late 1915, the Rosenwald Fund went on to support the creation of...
Dates:
1912-2005, undated
South-Carolina Society records
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0047
Collection Overview
South-Carolina Society records consist of typewritten, annotated transcriptions of minutes compiled as a W.P.A. project from 1935 to 1937. Minutes of meetings (1827; 1865-1888) concern applications for membership, the establishment of a female academy, revision of society rules, financial matters, assistance to persons who have applied to the Society for relief, and other organizational business.
Dates:
1827-1937
Found in:
Special Collections
South Carolina Voices of the Civil Rights Movement Conference
Collection
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