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Charleston Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People records

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1117
Abstract The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was started on February 12, 1909, partly in response to the prevalence of lynching of African-Americans in America and the 1908 race riot that occurred in Springfield, Illinois. The Charleston Branch of the NAACP was founded in February 1917 by Edwin Harleston. The branch was established to advocate for the rights of African-Americans in South Carolina and Charleston. The Charleston NAACP serves as a space for...
Dates: 1920-1995, undated; Majority of material found within 1973-1994

Comments on lectures given by Orestes A. Brownson

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-007
Collection Overview

The collection consists of five newspaper clippings of letters to the editor of the Charleston Standard. The letters were written in 1856 and were in response to a series of lectures by Orestes Augustus Brownson. They attack the "Catholicity" of Brownson's theology. Each is signed "Protestantism."

Dates: 1856

Alexander von Humboldt clippings

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-100
Collection Overview

The collection consists of two newspaper clippings concerning correspondence from Alexander V. Humboldt. One of the clippings contains the full text of a letter from Humboldt to George Ticknor. It is dated July 10, 1858. The second clipping discusses Humboldt's correspondence. It is dated June 20, 1860.

Dates: 1858, 1860

Marine Resources Division, South Carolina Department of Natural Resources map and chart collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0126
Collection Overview

This collection consists of a wide variety of maps, charts, and aerial photographs. The maps are arranged by type of map: topographic, geologic, bathymetric, nautical, aerial, and miscellaneous. Most of the maps are of South Carolina but maps of the southeast United States and the Gulf of Mexico coast are also included in this collection. The maps are arranged by state and county and thereafter chronologically.

Dates: 1802-1988

Trott family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0136
Abstract

Includes materials compiled by Charleston native Mabel Trott FitzSimons, including genealogical data and family history relating to Bailey, Cambridge, Cave, FitzSimons, Good, Gregorie, Hendricks, Trott, Venning, and Wood families. Also includes a copy of sailor Henry W. Hendricks' Civil War diary, and records regarding Myrtle Grove Plantation.

Dates: 1836-1981; Majority of material found within 1940-1973

Benjamin James Whipper, Sr., papers

 Collection
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

Lucille Simmons Whipper papers

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1146
Abstract Lucille Simmons Whipper (1928-2021), an educator, guidance counselor, academic administrator, community, and religious leader and the first African-American woman to serve as an State of South Carolina House of Representatives in Charleston's District 109 (1986-1996). She exercised her activism with her graduating class at Avery Institute in their attempts to desegregate the College of Charleston in 1944. Decades later, Whipper was instrumental in working with the State of South Carolina and...
Dates: 1900-2016, undated

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Sumter County (S.C.) -- Maps 1
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Benedict College 2
Whipper, Benjamin James, 1912-1998 2
Whipper, Lucille, 1928-2021 2
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. Gamma Xi Omega Chapter (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture 1
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Avery Normal Institute 1
Avery Research Center 1
Bailey family 1
Baptist Education Center Foundation (North Charleston, S.C.) 1
Baptist Educational & Missionary Convention of South Carolina 1
Baptist Ministers' Wives and Ministers' Widows of Charleston County (S.C.) 1
Berkeley-Charleston-Dorchester Council of Governments 1
Brownson, Orestes Augustus, 1803-1876 1
Cambridge family 1
Cave family 1
Charity Baptist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Charleston County Baptist Association (S.C.) 1
Charleston County Legislative Delegation 1
Charleston County School District 1
Chisholm, Shirley, 1924-2005 1
FitzSimons, Mabel Trott, 1883-1979 1
Fitzsimmons family 1
Fleet and Industrial Supply Center (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Geological Survey (U.S.) 1
Good family 1
Gregorie family 1
Hendricks family 1
Hendricks, Henry W., 1826-1898 1
Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859 1
Jenkins Orphanage Institute (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Morris College (Sumter, S.C.) 1
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Charleston Branch (Charleston, S.C.) 1
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Freedom Fund Program 1
National Baptist Convention of the United States of America 1
Orphan Aid Society (Charleston, S.C.) 1
South Carolina. Marine Resources Division 1
South Carolina. Wildlife and Marine Resources Department 1
St. Matthew Baptist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Ticknor, George, 1791-1871 1
Trott family 1
U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey 1
United States Coast Survey 1
United States. Department of the Interior 1
United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 1
Venning family 1
Wood family 1
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