notes (documents)

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Holds correspondence, Board Member minutes, and Reports of the President. Includes documents pertaining to the fund raising activities of the Morris College and Thanksgiving Rallies.

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Includes organizational Constituition (undated); "Directory of the Sisterhood of the WBMEC;" adminstrative documents; booklet: "Black Baptist Women of South Carolina; "Dr. Mamie Neely Coker Tribute Book, and her funeral obsequies; Mount Pidgah Baptist Church: Biennial One-Day Session (2004); scholarship program information, event calendars, and mailing lists.

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Whipper served on Benedict's Board of Trustees (2005-2008). Holds correspondence, meeting minutes, Board of Trustees meeting reports, various committee meeting reports, President reports, Founder's Day Rally event programs, a variety of special event programs, and news releases. Includes dissertation: "Towards Creating Anomalies...Low Income, First Generation Students at Benedict College," 2005.

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Holds correspondence, grant proposals and applications, press releases and newspaper articles, historical committee documents, oral history interview questions, biographical/manuscript documents, and various notes.

Abstract Benjamin James Whipper, Sr., (1912-1998), a minister, religious leader, educator, and civic activist. A native of Charleston, South Carolina, Reverend Whipper pastored two churches, Charity Baptist (1949), and Saint Matthew Baptist (1940). Whipper was the Moderator of the Charleston County Baptist Association; the treasurer with the Baptist Educational and Missionary Convention of South Carolina; and the Assistant Secretary on the Executive Board of the National Baptist Convention, USA,...