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awards

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Things conferred or bestowed as a reward for merit, including a prize, reward, honor, document, or remuneration.

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Baptist Minister's Wives, 3 April 1987

 File — Box 180, Folder: 5
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.

Dates: 3 April 1987

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