Associations, institutions, etc. -- African American membership
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
International Membership Directory, 2004
File — Box 154, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Contains correspondence, handbooks, financial reports, grant proposals/applications, speech transcripts, event programs, and publications from Whipper's sorority.
Dates:
2004
Newsletter and Membership Listing, 2011 - 2012
File — Box 154, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Contains correspondence, handbooks, financial reports, grant proposals/applications, speech transcripts, event programs, and publications from Whipper's sorority.
Dates:
2011 - 2012
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