Segregation in education -- South Carolina -- History
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Jean Claude Bouffard Civil Rights Interviews
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1204
Abstract
The Jean Claude Bouffard Civil Rights interviews collection, 1982, contains five oral history interviews with Septima Clark, Mary Moultrie, and Bernice Robinson as well as recordings of lectures that Septima Clark and Thomas R. Waring, Jr. gave to Bouffard's College of Charleston class in the summer of 1982. Participants discuss a wide range of topics including their family history and upbringing, their involvement in the Civil Rights Movement and organizing, African American leaders during...
Dates:
1982
Judge J. Waties and Elizabeth Waring papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1033
Abstract
Julius Waties Waring (1880-1968), a Charleston native and attorney became a Federal Judge in 1942. At the time of his divorce and remarriage in 1945 to Elizabeth A. Hoffman (1895-1966), he began to hand down more liberal decisions, such as equalizing the pay of black and white teachers and outlawing South Carolina's white-only Democratic Primary. He soon ruled that separate but equal was per se inequality. Because he and his wife socialized with African Americans and held...
Dates:
approximately 1947-1964