African American youth
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence: I.T.E.C. Youth Services, 2000
File — Box 171, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents
Suppporting funds facilitated by the Coastal Community Foundation.
Dates:
2000
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