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Letters from Septima Clark and Ruby Cornwell mostly to Mrs. Elizabeth Waring, 1952-1955 and 1962-1964, 1952--1964

 File — Box 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents note Includes mention of their civil rights activities and views and thanking Mrs. Waring and the Judge for theirs; with one copy of a letter from the Judge. Topics include problems with Charleston YWCA, NAACP and Shaw Center; racist policies of local newspaper News and Courier, the looming court decision of the Clarendon case, and changing behaviors in the city of Charleston while blacks demand more rights. Later letters of Clark describe the writing of her autobiography,...
Dates: 1952--1964

Black and white and color photographs of various members of Clark family, circa 1930-1980s

 File — Box 16, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents note

Including image of Septima Clark's mother-in-law and grandchildren.

Dates: 1920s-1980s

Poem and newspaper articles, 1959-1966

 File — Box 3, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents note

Regarding Highlander, Robinson, Septima Clark and participants. Includes newspaper articles regarding Robinson and Clark applying to the Peace Corps.

Dates: 1954-1988

Journal, 1978

 File — Box 1, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents note

With draft of speech regarding cousin Septima Clark.

Dates: 1978-1988

Waring Letters,, 1953

 File — Box 1, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents

Letters from July to October 1953. Topics include Supreme Court delay on segregation cases; demeaning portrayals of Blacks in the performing arts; Arthur J. Clement, the Charleston N.A.A.C.P. and possible screening for Communist infiltration; McCarthyism; Septima Clark; meeting with psychologist Kenneth Clark and Reverend James H. Robinson, author of Road Without Turning.

Dates: 1953

Letter from Gerald Ford, 1975

 File — Box 4, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents note

Thanking Septima Clark for support.

Dates: 1964-1985

Waring Letters,, 1961-1964

 File — Box 3, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents Scattered letters with photocopied newspaper clippings from May to November 1961 and June 1962. Includes Judge's copy of letter sent to Rev. Benjamin Glover, Emanuel A.M.E. Church, declining invitation to Charleston and reiterating the need for SC Blacks to develop courage in the fight for civil rights; Septima Clark working with Christian Leadership Conference in Atlanta; book 58 Lonely Men: Southern Federal Judges and School Desegregation, featuring Judge Waring; Septima Clark work with...
Dates: 1961-1964

Teaching materials, 1955, and undated

 File — Box 3, Folder: 7
Collection Overview

Memos, lists and correspondence regarding teaching, including 1955 mimeograph from Septima Clark regarding SC Congress of Colored Parents and Teachers

Dates: 1955, and undated

Waring Letters,, 1959

 File — Box 3, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents Scattered letters with photocopied newspaper clippings from January to November 1959. Topics include Judge Waring leading panel discussion regarding discrimination in sports featuring Jackie Robinson with clipping; attending Utility Club's honoring author Sarah Patton Boyle, with Elizabeth's comments written on program; commending Cornwell on her protégé, Bruce Poinsette; visit from Septima Clark; comments regarding Jimmy [James] Byrnes' appearance on Person to Person television show; and...
Dates: 1959

Programs and newspaper clippings, 1970-1988

 File — Box 4, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents note

Regarding tributes to Septima Poinsette Clark; articles about Robinson and Andrew Young.

Dates: 1954-1988

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Education -- South Carolina -- Johns Island (Island) 3
African Americans -- Civil rights 2
African Americans -- Civil rights -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 20th century 2
African Americans -- Education 2
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Charleston (S.C.) 2
Charleston (S.C.) -- Race relations 2
Hospital Workers' Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1969 2
Johns Island (S.C. : Island) -- Economic conditions 2
clippings (information artifacts) 2
manuscripts (documents) 2
African American businesspeople -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American cemeteries -- South Carolina 1
African American churches -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American churches -- South Carolina -- Johns Island (Island) 1
African American civil rights workers -- United States 1
African American clergy -- 20th century -- Photographs 1
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African American elementary schools -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American newspapers 1
African American politicians 1
African American teachers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American universities and colleges 1
African American women -- History 1
African American women -- Social conditions 1
African American women -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 20th century 1
African American women -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Societies and clubs 1
African American women -- South Carolina -- Societies and clubs 1
African American women -- South Carolina -- Societies and clubs -- History 1
African American women teachers 1
African American women teachers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American youth 1
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century 1
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African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina 1
African Americans -- Poetry 1
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African Americans -- Sea Islands -- Social life and customs 1
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Daufuskie Island (S.C.) -- Social conditions 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
Edisto Island (S.C.) -- History 1
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Education -- South Carolina -- Wadmalaw Island 1
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Johns Island (S.C.) 1
Kiawah Island (S.C.) -- History 1
Literacy -- South Carolina -- History 1
Oral histories 1
Photographs 1
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Race discrimination -- South Carolina -- History 1
Seabrook Island (S.C.) -- History 1
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South Carolina -- History 1
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Southern States -- Race relations 1
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Language
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Names
Clark, Septima Poinsette, 1898-1987 10
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Charleston Branch (Charleston, S.C.) 6
Avery Normal Institute 4
Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.) 4
Carawan, Guy 3
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Jenkins, Esau, 1910-1972 3
Robinson, Bernice, 1914-1994 3
South Carolina Federation of Colored Women's Clubs 3
Southern Christian Leadership Conference 3
African Methodist Episcopal Church 2
Allen University 2
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority 2
Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture 2
Avery Research Center 2
Bethel United Methodist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 2
Carawan, Candie 2
Charleston County School District 2
Horton, Myles, 1905-1990 2
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 2
Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005 2
Voorhees College 2
Waring, Elizabeth 2
Waring, Julius Waties, 1880-1968 2
Williams, Hosea, 1926-2000 2
Young, Andrew, 1932- 2
Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990 1
Alliance for Concerned Citizens 1
Alston, Addie Middleton 1
American Missionary Association 1
Amistad Research Center 1
Amos-Frazier, Marjorie, 1926-2010 1
Andell, Charles John, 1837-1876 1
Andell, William, 1845-1932 1
Bethune, Mary McLeod, 1875-1955 1
Blacks United for Action 1
Blake, J. Herman 1
Briggs, Harry, -1986 1
Brown family 1
Brown, J. Arthur, 1914-1988 1
Brown, Millicent E. 1
Butler, Susan Dart, 1888-1959 1
Camp Saint Christopher (Seabrook Island, S.C.) 1
Carmichael, Stokely, 1941-1998 1
Carson, Josephine, 1919- 1
Carter, Jimmy, 1924- 1
Centenary United Methodist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Charleston (S.C.). City Council 1
Charleston County Council 1
Citizens' Committee of Charleston (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Clyburn, James 1
Coards Studio 1
College of Charleston 1
Coming Street YWCA (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Committee on Better Racial Assurance 1
Community Action Program (U.S.) 1
Cornwell, Ruby Pendergrass, 1902-2003 1
Democratic Party (Charleston County, S.C.) 1
Deweese family 1
Drago, Edmund L. 1
Elliott, R. W. 1
Emanuel AME Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925-1963 1
Fields, Alfred B. 1
Fields, Karen E. (Karen Elise), 1945- 1
Fields, Mamie E. Garvin, 1888-1987 1
Friendly Moralist Society (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Gourdine, Julia Alston 1
Hamer, Fannie Lou 1
Hebron Presbyterian Church (Johns Island, S.C.) 1
Highlander Research and Education Center (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1
Horton, Zilphia, 1910-1956 1
IDEAS (Firm : Washington, D.C.) 1
Immaculate Conception School (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Jackson, Jesse, 1941- 1
Kelly family 1
Kelly, Anna D., 1913-2007 1
King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006 1
Lewis, John, 1940-2020 1
Marion Birnie Wilkinson Home for Girls (Cayce, S.C.) 1
Marshall, Thurgood, 1908-1993 1
Methodist Church (U.S.). South Carolina Conference 1
Mitchell, Julian A. (Julian Augustus), 1836-1907 1
Morawetz, Victor, 1859-1938 1
Murray, Albertha J., 1889-1969 1
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 1
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Freedom Fund Program 1
Oakes, Ziba B., 1806-1871 1
Omega Psi Phi Fraternity 1
Order of the Eastern Star. Grand Chapter of South Carolina 1
Palfi, Marion, 1907-1978 1
Parker, Ethelyn Murray 1
Penn Community Services 1
Pennsylvania Freedmen's Relief Association 1
Pivnick, Esther Kaplan, 1913-2001 1
Ravenel, Charles Dufort, 1938- 1
Riley, Joseph P., 1943- 1
Schaffer, Ferdinand, 1831-1913 1
Seabrook Island Natural History Group (S.C.) 1
Seabrook, William, Sr., 1773-1836 1
Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority 1
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