African American History Month

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Awards of achievement and recognition recieved by Whipper from her House of Representatives tenure, along with her civic and social work. Includes the subseries: Legislative and Political Organizations; Baptist Organization, Women's Organization, Black History Month, and Various Awards. The awards are dismatled from their original wooden plaques.

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Speeches given by Whipper for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday and Black History Month. Includes "African-American Scholars: Leaders, Activists, and Writers;" "Focus: The Harlem Renaissance;" "Stepping Back in Time," "The Afro-American Experience International Connection," with numerous untitled typed and handwritten manuscripts.

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Pertaining to February's event, "An Evening of Negro Spirituals."

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Includes the Afro-American Founders Festival Committee meeting minutes and notes.

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Includes the Afro-American Founders Festival Committee meeting minutes and notes.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

Awards of achievement and recognition recieved by Whipper from her House of Representatives tenure, along with her civic and social work. Includes the subseries: Legislative and Political Organizations; Baptist Organization, Women's Organization, Black History Month, and Various Awards. The awards are dismatled from their original wooden plaques.

Abstract The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), was founded by Dr. Carter G. Woodson in 1915 in Chicago, Illinois. The purpose of ASALH is to encourage the study, research, and promotion of African Americans history. The Charleston Area Branch was founded in April 1995, under the leadership of Dr. Marvin Dulaney and Dr. Bernard Powers. The Charleston Area Branch of the Association for the Study of African-American Life and History (ASALH) contains incoming and...

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Regarding the planning of the Observance of Black Heritage Month.

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Display items and handouts used by Whipper in her Black History presentations.

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...