African Americans -- South Carolina
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Avery Exhibit: "The Color of Money", 2001
File — Box 147, Folder: 27
Scope and Contents
Contains programs and newspaper article regarding the "depictions of slavery in Confederate and Southern states currency" in oil painting by artist John W. Jones.
Dates:
2001
Found in:
Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture
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Lucille Simmons Whipper papers
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Series 5: Civic, Community, and Social Involvement
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5.6: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture
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5.6.2: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture, College of Charleston
Conference: Institute for African American Community History, November 2005
File — Box 147, Folder: 32
Scope and Contents
Includes schedule and presentation outline.
Dates:
November 2005
Found in:
Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture
/
Lucille Simmons Whipper papers
/
Series 5: Civic, Community, and Social Involvement
/
5.6: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture
/
5.6.2: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture, College of Charleston
Flyers regarding Community Cultural programs, 1981 - 1995
File — Box 147, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
Contains document pertaining to events in Charleston, and Columbia, South Carolina.
Dates:
1981 - 1995
Found in:
Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture
/
Lucille Simmons Whipper papers
/
Series 5: Civic, Community, and Social Involvement
/
5.6: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture
/
5.6.2: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture, College of Charleston
Jean Laney Harris Folk Heritage Awards, 2000
File — Box 147, Folder: 25
Scope and Contents
Avery was the recipient of this annual award recognizing the advocacy of Folk Culture in South Carolina.
Dates:
2000
Found in:
Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture
/
Lucille Simmons Whipper papers
/
Series 5: Civic, Community, and Social Involvement
/
5.6: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture
/
5.6.2: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture, College of Charleston
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