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W. Marvin Dulaney research files on four African American cemeteries

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0109
Collection Overview Records of the research required to determine whether or not a new library planned for the College of Charleston would cover any portion of the burial grounds of four African-American cemeteries: the Brown Fellowship Society (founded 1790 and renamed the Century Fellowship Society in 1903), the Free Dark Men of Color, Plymouth Congregational Church, and the MacPhelah Cemetery. The site had formerly been utilized by Bishop England High School, which was built in 1921 and which expanded in...
Dates: 1999-2001

Jenkins Orphanage papers

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1063
Abstract A Charleston (S.C.) orphanage for African American children, founded in 1891 by Reverend Daniel Joseph Jenkins. The Orphan Aid Society (chartered 1892) was the governing board of the orphanage. Organized by members of the church where Reverend Jenkins was pastor, the Society furnished much of the financial support for the orphanage's efforts to provide education, training, skills, and care to orphans, half orphans, and destitute children. After Jenkins' death his widow, Mrs. Eloise C....
Dates: 1891-1991; Majority of material found in 1945-1980

League of Allied Arts records

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Identifier: AMN 1158
Abstract The League of Allied Arts (LAA) is an organization of Black women who celebrate and help to locally advance a plethora of elements of high culture. The organization was initially founded in Los Angeles, CA, in 1939, however, Edwina Whitlock created a new branch of the organization upon her relocation back to Charleston, South Carolina, in 1986. This collection highlights the documents from its foundation and earliest years, from 1986 to 1988. There are three series. Administrative includes...
Dates: 1983-1988; Majority of material found within 1986-1988

James Logan scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1010
Abstract James Raymond Logan (1874-1958) was the first native Charlestonian to receive a civil service appointment for work at the Charleston Navy Yard, and was the first African American appointee. Logan also directed Logan's Military Band and the choirs of Calvary Protestant Episcopal Church and Zion Presbyterian Church.This collection includes newspaper clippings, programs, photographs and correspondence that originally comprised two scrapbooks (now disbound) created by James Raymond...
Dates: 1896-1961

John Torrans letters

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Identifier: Mss 0034-081
Collection Overview A letter from John Torrans to Alexander Rose recommends that Rose buy the brigantine Industry lying at Eveleigh's Wharf, "that she will do well to go to Suranam" [Surinam]. A postscript headed "Distillery Monday Morning" asks Rose to tell Forbes that "one of the Negros is run away." The second letter (penciled note on cover reads "Charleston, S.C. List of Negros to be Mortgaged") from Torrans to Rose states he has sent a bond and mortgage bought at Well's Shop, but "did not know how many...
Dates: approximately 1775

Benjamin James Whipper, Sr., papers

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Identifier: AMN 1147
Abstract Benjamin James Whipper, Sr., (1912-1998), a minister, religious leader, educator, and civic activist. A native of Charleston, South Carolina, Reverend Whipper pastored two churches, Charity Baptist (1949), and Saint Matthew Baptist (1940). Whipper was the Moderator of the Charleston County Baptist Association; the treasurer with the Baptist Educational and Missionary Convention of South Carolina; and the Assistant Secretary on the Executive Board of the National Baptist Convention, USA,...
Dates: approximately 1865-2008, undated

Edwina Harleston Whitlock papers

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Identifier: AMN 1120
Abstract Edwina Augusta Harleston Whitlock was born Gussie Louise Harleston on September 28, 1916 in Charleston, South Carolina, to Robert Othello Harleston and his wife, Marie Isabelle Forrest. She was raised by her uncle, Edwin Augustus Teddy Harleston and his wife Elise Forrest after it was discovered that Whitlock's parents had tuberculosis. Whitlock attended the Avery Normal Institute in Charleston, South Carolina, and Talladega College in Talladega, Alabama, where she...
Dates: 1918-2006

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Harleston family 2
Jenkins' Orphanage Band 2
Orphan Aid Society (Charleston, S.C.) 2
Whitlock, Edwina H. (Edwina Harleston), 1916-2002 2
Avery Normal Institute 1
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Ball, Edward, 1958- 1
Baptist Education Center Foundation (North Charleston, S.C.) 1
Baptist Educational & Missionary Convention of South Carolina 1
Benedict College 1
Bishop England High School (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Brown Fellowship Society Cemetery (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Brown, Alphonso 1
Century Fellowship Society Cemetery (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Charity Baptist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Charleston County Baptist Association (S.C.) 1
Charleston Naval Shipyard 1
Cohen, David Joseph 1
Drago, Edmund L. 1
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 1
Dulaney, W. Marvin, 1950- 1
Fleet and Industrial Supply Center (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Free Dark Men of Color Cemetery (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Harleston, Edwin Augustus, 1882-1931 1
Harleston, Elise F. (Elise Forrest) 1
Howard University 1
Industry (Ship) 1
Jenkins Orphanage (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Jenkins Orphanage Institute (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Jenkins, Daniel Joseph, 1862-1937 1
King, Minerva 1
League of Allied Arts 1
League of Allied Arts of Charleston, South Carolina 1
Logan, James Reginald, 1874-1958 1
MacPhelah Cemetery (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Marlene and Nathan Addlestone Library 1
Morris College (Sumter, S.C.) 1
National Baptist Convention of the United States of America 1
Plymouth Congregational Church Cemetery (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Potts family 1
Powers, Bernard E., Jr. 1
Rose, Alexander, -1801 1
Sanders, Alex 1
St. Matthew Baptist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Talladega College 1
Torrans, John, approximately 1702-1780 1
United States. Navy 1
Whipper, Benjamin James, 1912-1998 1
Whipper, Lucille, 1928-2021 1
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