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Robert Lee Smith collection

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1068
Abstract The Robert Lee Smith collection consists of newspaper clippings, correspondence, reports and various documents generated and gathered by Margaretta Pringle Childs (Mrs. St. Julien Ravenel Childs). Newspaper clippings (1977-1984), mostly from the Charleston Chronicle, discuss the case and its possible link to the unsolved 1975 murder of George A. Payton, an African American attorney who was representing Smith. Childs' correspondence (1977-1979, and undated) is on...
Dates: 1976-1984, and undated

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

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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African American businesspeople -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
African American churches -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
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Civil rights movements -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
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Hospital Workers' Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1969 2
African American Congregationalists 1
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African American civil rights workers 1
African American civil rights workers -- United States 1
African American clergy -- 20th century -- Photographs 1
African American college teachers 1
African American educators -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Photographs 1
African American educators -- United States -- 20th century 1
African American newspapers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American political activists -- United States -- 20th century 1
African American politicians 1
African American religious leaders 1
African American school principals -- New York (State) -- New York -- 20th century 1
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African American teachers -- Tanzania -- 20th century 1
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African American youth 1
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Algebra -- Study and teaching (Middle school) -- South Carolina 1
Apartheid -- South Africa 1
Archives 1
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Black people -- History -- Study and teaching 1
Charleston (S.C.) -- Photographs 1
Charleston (S.C.) -- Politics and government 1
Charleston County (S.C.) -- Race relations 1
Church archives 1
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Church records and registers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
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Civil rights movements -- Southern States 1
Civil rights workers -- United States 1
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Criminal justice, Administration of 1
Criminals -- South Carolina 1
Day care centers -- South Carolina -- Yonges Island 1
Discrimination in education -- Law and legislation -- South Carolina -- History 1
Discrimination in education -- South Carolina 1
Discrimination in employment -- United States 1
Education -- Study and teaching 1
Education -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Education -- South Carolina -- Edisto Island 1
Education -- South Carolina -- Johns Island (Island) 1
Education -- South Carolina -- Wadmalaw Island 1
Functional literacy -- United States 1
Funeral homes -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Funeral rites and ceremonies -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Juvenile delinquents 1
Mathematics -- Study and teaching (Middle school) -- South Carolina 1
Oral histories 1
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Segregation -- United States -- History 1
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Social justice 1
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South Africa -- Politics and government -- 20th century 1
South Africa -- Race relations -- 20th century 1
South Africa -- Social conditions -- 20th century 1
Southern States -- Race relations 1
Teachers -- New York (State) -- New York -- 20th century 1
Teachers -- Tanzania -- 20th century 1
Undertakers and undertaking -- Equipment and supplies 1
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Names
Avery Normal Institute 3
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 3
Avery Research Center 2
Brown, J. Arthur, 1914-1988 2
Brown, Millicent E. 2
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Centenary United Methodist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 2
Childs, Margaretta Pringle, 1912-2000 2
Clark, Septima Poinsette, 1898-1987 2
Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.) 2
Morris Street Baptist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 2
Mt. Zion A.M.E. Church (Charleston, S.C.) 2
Southern Christian Leadership Conference 2
African Methodist Episcopal Church 1
Alliance for Concerned Citizens 1
American Missionary Association 1
Amistad Research Center 1
Amos-Frazier, Marjorie, 1926-2010 1
Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture 1
Beecher Congregational Church (New Orleans, La.) 1
Bennett College (Greensboro, N.C.) 1
Bethel United Methodist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Briggs, Harry, -1986 1
Brown family 1
Campbell, James E., 1925-2021 1
Carawan, Candie 1
Carawan, Guy 1
Carter, Jimmy, 1924- 1
Charleston (S.C.). City Council 1
Charleston County Council 1
Charleston County School District 1
Charleston County School District No. 20 (S.C.) 1
Clyburn, James 1
College of Charleston 1
College of Charleston. Governor's School 1
Committee on Better Racial Assurance 1
Community Action Program (U.S.) 1
Community Organization Federal Credit Union. 1
Concerned Clergy Committee (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Cornwell, Ruby Pendergrass, 1902-2003 1
Democratic Party (Charleston County, S.C.) 1
Drago, Edmund L. 1
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 1
Elliott, R. W. 1
Enwright, John T., 1904-1975 1
Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925-1963 1
Florida State University 1
Friendly Moralist Society (Charleston, S.C.) 1
General Council of the Congregational Christian Churches of the United States 1
Guilford College 1
Hamer, Fannie Lou 1
Harleston Funeral Home (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Harleston, Edwin Gailliard, 1854-1931 1
Highlander Research and Education Center (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1
Horton, Myles, 1905-1990 1
Hospital and Training School for Nurses (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Howard University 1
Humane Brotherhood Association 1
IDEAS (Firm : Washington, D.C.) 1
Immaculate Conception High School (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Jenkins Orphanage (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Jenkins, Esau, 1910-1972 1
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 1
Lewis, John, 1940-2020 1
MacBeth, Arthur L. 1
Mandela, Nelson, 1918-2013 1
Marshall, Thurgood, 1908-1993 1
Methodist Church (U.S.). South Carolina Conference 1
Mickey Funeral Home (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Mickey family 1
Mickey, Edward Crum 1
Mickey, Hannah Harleston, 1848-1928 1
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Freedom Fund Program 1
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University 1
Oakes, Ziba B., 1806-1871 1
Omega Psi Phi Fraternity 1
Organization of Afro-American Unity 1
Palfi, Marion, 1907-1978 1
Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005 1
Payton, George A., 1929-1975 1
Peoples Federation Bank (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Plymouth Congregational Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Political Action Committee of Charleston County (Charleston County, S.C.). 1
Ravenel, Charles Dufort, 1938- 1
Riley, Joseph P., 1943- 1
Rivers High School (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Robinson, Bernice, 1914-1994 1
Shabazz, Betty 1
Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority 1
Smith, Robert Lee, 1958-2019 1
South Carolina Commission for Farm Workers 1
South Carolina Historical Society 1
South Carolina State University 1
South Carolina. Public Service Commission 1
Southern Regional Council 1
Stoney, Samuel Gaillard, 1891- 1
United Church Board for Homeland Ministries 1
United Church of Christ 1
United Methodist Church (U.S.) 1
United Methodist Women (U.S.). South Carolina Conference 1
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