School integration

Scope and Contents

Position paper on desegregation.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Holds the subseries: Charleston County School District, and Constituent Board #20 Trustee. Contains memorandums, correspondence, and reports generated by the school district, with letters sent to and from Whipper during her House of Representarive tenure. Additional CCSD documents are located in Subseries: 2.4.1.16.1.5 (Box 64), and 3.5 (Box 81).

Scope and Contents From the Series: Holds correspondence,reports, meeting minutes, and various documents pertaining to Whipper's commission, committee, and Board of Trustee positions, along with her civic/social involvement. Contains the subseries: Charleston County School District (CCSD); Mayor's Advisory Committee on Human Relations; City of Charleston Department and Committees; Charleston County Bicentennial Committee; South Carolina International Women's Year; Avery Research Center for African American History and...

Abstract Armand Derfner, b. 1938, has been a litigator in private practice in Charleston, SC, since 1974. He has litigated civil rights cases since the Voting Rights Act of 1965 went into effect in August 1968, when Derfner represented voters in Greenwood, Mississippi. He has gained national renown as a civil rights attorney, having won five cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. The Armand Derfner legal papers document his work since establishing his practice in Charleston in 1974. The papers are...

Abstract The Somebody Had to Do It (SHTDI) Project brought to Claflin University in 2008, under the auspices of the Jonathan Jasper Wright Institute for the Study of Southern African-American History, Culture and Policy. This initiative was designed as a multi-disciplinary research project to identify the “first children” who “sacrificed their youth” in implementing the Brown vs. Board of Education decision of 1954. After the creation of a database identifying the names,...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Holds the subseries: Charleston County School District, and Constituent Board #20 Trustee. Contains memorandums, correspondence, and reports generated by the school district, with letters sent to and from Whipper during her House of Representarive tenure. Additional CCSD documents are located in Subseries: 2.4.1.16.1.5 (Box 64), and 3.5 (Box 81).

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Holds the subseries: Charleston County School District, and Constituent Board #20 Trustee. Contains memorandums, correspondence, and reports generated by the school district, with letters sent to and from Whipper during her House of Representarive tenure. Additional CCSD documents are located in Subseries: 2.4.1.16.1.5 (Box 64), and 3.5 (Box 81).

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The sub-series contains reports, typescripts, and workbooks regarding civil rights issues, voting, and school desegregation.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The sub-series contains reports, typescripts, and workbooks regarding civil rights issues, voting, and school desegregation.