Charleston (S.C.) -- Race relations
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Charleston School Segregation: Newspaper Articles, 1980
File — Box 140, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Holds the subseries: Charleston County School District, and Constituent Board #20 Trustee. Contains memorandums, correspondence, and reports generated by the school district, with letters sent to and from Whipper during her House of Representarive tenure. Additional CCSD documents are located in Subseries: 2.4.1.16.1.5 (Box 64), and 3.5 (Box 81).
Dates:
1980
Millicent E. Brown collection of the Somebody Had To Do It Project
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1148
Abstract
The Somebody Had to Do It (SHTDI) Project brought to Claflin University in 2008, under the auspices of the Jonathan Jasper Wright Institute for the Study of Southern African-American History, Culture and Policy. This initiative was designed as a multi-disciplinary research project to identify the “first children” who “sacrificed their youth” in implementing the Brown vs. Board of Education decision of 1954. After the creation of a database identifying the names,...
Dates:
2003-2013, and undated; Majority of material found within 2006 - 2013
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