African Americans -- Politics and government -- 20th century
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:
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
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- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 3
- Southern Regional Council 3
- Allen University 2
- Bethel United Methodist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 2
- Blacks United for Action 2
- Carawan, Candie 2
- Carawan, Guy 2
- Carmichael, Stokely, 1941-1998 2
- Charleston County School District 2
- Clark, Septima Poinsette, 1898-1987 2
- Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.) 2
- Horton, Myles, 1905-1990 2
- Jackson, Jesse, 1941- 2
- Jenkins, Esau, 1910-1972 2
- Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005 2
- Robinson, Bernice, 1914-1994 2
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference 2
- Voorhees College 2
- Williams, Hosea, 1926-2000 2
- Young, Andrew, 1932- 2
- Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990 1
- Al-Amin, Jamil, 1943- 1
- All-African People's Revolutionary Party 1
- Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority 1
- Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. Gamma Xi Omega Chapter (Charleston, S.C.) 1
- Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture 1
- Avery Normal Institute 1
- Avery Research Center 1
- Baptist Ministers' Wives and Ministers' Widows of Charleston County (S.C.) 1
- Benedict College 1
- Berkeley-Charleston-Dorchester Council of Governments 1
- Black Panther Party 1
- Blake, J. Herman 1
- Carson, Josephine, 1919- 1
- Carter, Jimmy, 1924- 1
- Charleston County Legislative Delegation 1
- Chisholm, Shirley, 1924-2005 1
- Citizens' Committee of Charleston (Charleston, S.C.) 1
- Cleaver, Eldridge, 1935-1998 1
- Clyburn, James 1
- Communist Workers Party (U.S.) 1
- Community Action Program (U.S.) 1
- Congress of African Peoples 1
- Douglas, Rosslee Tenetha Green, 1928-2011 1
- Douglas, Walter Earl, 1923-1979 1
- Edwards, James B., 1927-2014 1
- Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925-1963 1
- Hamer, Fannie Lou 1
- Harvard University 1
- Helms, Jesse 1
- Highlander Research and Education Center (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1
- Hollings, Ernest F., 1922-2019 1
- Horton, Zilphia, 1910-1956 1
- IDEAS (Firm : Washington, D.C.) 1
- King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006 1
- Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) 1
- Lewis, John, 1940-2020 1
- Loeb, William, 1905-1981 1
- Malcolm X Liberation University 1
- Methodist Church (U.S.). South Carolina Conference 1
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Charleston Branch (Charleston, S.C.) 1
- National Black United Front 1
- Nkrumah, Kwame, 1909-1972 1
- Palfi, Marion, 1907-1978 1
- Penn Community Services 1
- Ravenel, Charles Dufort, 1938- 1
- Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) 1
- Sellers, Cleveland, 1944- 1
- Sellers, Pauline Taggart, 1903-1990 1
- Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority 1
- South Carolina Area Trade School (Denmark, S.C.) 1
- South Carolina Commission for Farm Workers 1
- South Carolina Federation of Colored Women's Clubs 1
- South Carolina. General Assembly. House of Representatives 1
- Stone, Sonja Haynes, 1938-1991 1
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.) 1
- Student Organization for Black Unity 1
- Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.) 1
- Thurmond, Strom, 1902-2003 1
- Touré, Ahmed Sékou, 1922-1984 1
- United Methodist Church (U.S.) 1
- United Methodist Women (U.S.). South Carolina Conference 1
- United States Commission on Civil Rights. South Carolina Advisory Committee 1
- United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation 1
- Volunteers in Service to America 1
- Waring, Elizabeth 1
- Waring, Julius Waties, 1880-1968 1
- Waring, Thomas R. 1
- Whipper, Benjamin James, 1912-1998 1
- Whipper, Jackson Seth, 1949- 1
- Whipper, Lucille, 1928-2021 1
- Yonges Island Day Care Center (S.C.) 1 + ∧ less
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