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African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 50 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence and Event Programs, 2001

 File — Box 148, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Contains correspondence, event programs and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. anniversary celebration program booklets.

Dates: 2001

Correspondence and Event Programs, 2002

 File — Box 148, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Contains correspondence, event programs and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. anniversary celebration program booklets.

Dates: 2002

Correspondence and Event Programs, 2003

 File — Box 148, Folder: 18
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Contains correspondence, event programs and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. anniversary celebration program booklets.

Dates: 2003

Craft and Crum families papers

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1102
Abstract William Craft (1824-1900) and Ellen Smith Craft (1826-1891) were slaves who met on a plantation in Macon, Georgia. Unwilling to raise children in slavery, in December 1848 they devised a plan to escape to Philadephia, Pennsylvania. Ellen dressed as an invalid male, her arm in a sling to avoid writing (neither William nor Ellen could read or write) and face in bandages to obscure her feminine voice and lack of facial hair. William accompanied her as a servant. They arrived in Philadelphia on...
Dates: 1780-2007

Frank Augustus DeCosta papers

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1106
Abstract Frank Augustus DeCosta (1910-1972) was an African-American educator, administrator and scholar born in Charleston, South Carolina. In a career that spanned four decades, DeCosta served as a teacher and principal of two high schools, supervisor and chairman of an education department, director of instruction and of student teaching, foreign service statistical officer, and organizing dean of two graduate schools.The collection includes correspondence, research notes, essays,...
Dates: 1847-2000; Majority of material found within 1940-1972

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (MLK, Jr.) Celebration Event Program, 1994

 File — Box 148, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Contains correspondence, event programs and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. anniversary celebration program booklets.

Dates: 1994

Event Programs, 1980

 File — Box 148, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Contains correspondence, event programs and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. anniversary celebration program booklets.

Dates: 1980

Virginia Geraty papers

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1123
Abstract Virginia Mixson Geraty (1915-2004) was born in Summerville, South Carolina to Edward Miles Mixson and his wife Ethel Sarah Ray Mixson. Geraty attended Immaculate Catholic School at Hendersonville, North Carolina, where her family lived during part of her childhood. After the passing of her younger brother and father, Geraty and her family moved to Yonges Island, South Carolina. It was there on the island that Geraty became interested in Gullah, when she heard it being spoken by a family...
Dates: 1915-2007; Majority of material found within 1978-2004