African American newspapers -- South Carolina -- Charleston
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
John L. Dart family papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1069
Abstract
John Lewis Dart (1854-1915) was born a free person of color in Charleston, South Carolina. He graduated from Avery Normal Institute in 1872 and attended Atlanta University in Georgia, and Newton Theological Seminary in Massachusetts, where he was ordained a Baptist minister. He returned to Charleston in 1886 and became pastor of Morris Street Baptist Church. Sixteen years later, Dart ministered the Shiloh Baptist Church. In 1894, he opened the Charleston Normal and Industrial Institute, a...
Dates:
1844-1947
Robert Lee Smith collection
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1068
Abstract
The Robert Lee Smith collection consists of newspaper clippings, correspondence, reports and various documents generated and gathered by Margaretta Pringle Childs (Mrs. St. Julien Ravenel Childs). Newspaper clippings (1977-1984), mostly from the Charleston Chronicle, discuss the case and its possible link to the unsolved 1975 murder of George A. Payton, an African American attorney who was representing Smith. Childs' correspondence (1977-1979, and undated) is on...
Dates:
1976-1984, and undated
Allen Tibbs collection
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1153
Abstract
This small collection donated by Mr. Allen Tibbs (1994) contains black and white photographs of the Charleston Little League team with their coaches later known as the Cannon Street All-Stars. The collection holds images of the Cannon Street Basketball team (circa 1950s). Additionally, this collection has ephemera in the form of newspaper articles and scattered issues of Life Magazine, mostly likely collected for it's topical content on Black history and...
Dates:
1953-1969