African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 50 Collections and/or Records:
Tribute to Women: Correspondence, 1981
File — Box 148, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Contains correspondence, event programs and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. anniversary celebration program booklets.
Dates:
1981
Tribute to Women: Correspondence, 1982
File — Box 148, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Contains correspondence, event programs and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. anniversary celebration program booklets.
Dates:
1982
Trident Urban League, 1993
File — Box 69: Series Series 2, Folder: 14
Identifier: Series 2
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Contains correspondence and reports. Listed alphabetically.
Dates:
1993
Found in:
Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture
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Lucille Simmons Whipper papers
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Series 2: Political Career
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2.4: State of South Carolina Legislative Branch-The General Assembly: House of Representatives: The Honorable Lucille Whipper
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2.4.14: Charleston County and City Departments and Organizations
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2.4.14.2: City of Charleston: Departments Offices, Organizations and Businesses
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2.4.14.2.3: City of Charleston: Organizations
Typescript: "Two-Hundred and Fifty Years of Afro-American Business in Charleston, South Carolina", bulk: undated
File — Box 146, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Contains documents collected in prepartation for the establishment of the Avery Research Center; a archive, small museum, and cultural center for public programming.
Dates:
Majority of material found in undated
Found in:
Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture
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Lucille Simmons Whipper papers
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Series 5: Civic, Community, and Social Involvement
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5.6: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture
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5.6.1: Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture (ALAAHC): Board of Directors
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5.6.1.6: Various Research Documents
Typescripts of Avery Institute's and Avery Research Center's History, 1994-2000, and undated
File — Box 147, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
Includes newspaper and magazine articles.
Dates:
1994-2000, and undated
Found in:
Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture
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Lucille Simmons Whipper papers
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Series 5: Civic, Community, and Social Involvement
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5.6: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture
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5.6.2: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture, College of Charleston
Various Documents, undated
File — Box 148, Folder: 23
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Contains correspondence, event programs and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. anniversary celebration program booklets.
Dates:
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
Edwina Harleston Whitlock papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1120
Abstract
Edwina Augusta Harleston Whitlock was born Gussie Louise Harleston on September 28, 1916 in Charleston, South Carolina, to Robert Othello Harleston and his wife, Marie Isabelle Forrest. She was raised by her uncle, Edwin Augustus Teddy Harleston and his wife Elise Forrest after it was discovered that Whitlock's parents had tuberculosis. Whitlock attended the Avery Normal Institute in Charleston, South Carolina, and Talladega College in Talladega, Alabama, where she...
Dates:
1918-2006
Women Against Violence: Meeting Notes, Newspaper Article and Event Program, 2002
File — Box 148, Folder: 17
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Contains correspondence, event programs and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. anniversary celebration program booklets.
Dates:
2002
Workshops: "Planning a New Museum of African American History and Culture in Charleston", 2001
File — Box 150, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Whipper functioned as Secretary on this board. Contains workshop materials, By-Laws, meeting minutes, correspondence and newspaper articles.
Dates:
2001