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Thurmond, Strom, 1902-2003. Strom Thurmond legislative assistant. 1901-, 1970-1986.

Title: Strom Thurmond legislative assistant. 1901-, 1970-1986.

Correspondence, memoranda, reports, testimonies, petitions, copies of bills and amendments and research and background material relating to legislation, hominations and treaties before the U.S. Senate. The series also contains lists of legislation sponsored and co-sponsored by the Senator, his voting record, speech material files and "Dear Colleague" letters. Major topics covered in this series includes the Panama Canal Treaties, stockpiling of metals and other resources for emergency defense use, private relief bills, SALT II, the Savannah River Site, school desegregation and busing, taxes, textiles, labor legislation and transportation.

ArchivalResource: 77.5 cubic ft.

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Hebrew Benevolent Society (Charleston, S.C.). Records, 1853-1959 (bulk 1867-1923).

Title: Records, 1853-1959 (bulk 1867-1923).

Constitution and by-laws (1870), minute book (1867-1923), letter from Raphael J. Moses concerning anti-Semitism (1878), and address of Solomon Blatt at the 175th anniversary celebration (1959).

ArchivalResource: .4 linear ft.

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Thurmond, Strom, 1902-2003. Strom Thurmond subject correspondence series, 1954-1976.

Title: Strom Thurmond subject correspondence series, 1954-1976.

The central file used by the Senator's Office until the switch to a computerized filing system in 1976. Most of the material in this series is made up of constituent correspondence, although there are also clippings, invitations, reports, photographs and maps; there is also correspondence from colleagues, government officials, family and friends. Subjects represented in the series include agriculture, civil rights, foreign relations, labor, military affairs, politics, postal affairs and taxes. The organizational memberships, religious activities and trips of the Senator are also documented in this series.

ArchivalResource: 100 cubic ft.

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Hemphill, Robert W. (Robert Witherspoon), 1915-1985. Robert W. Hemphill papers, 1926-1984

Title: Robert W. Hemphill papers, 1926-1984

Papers chiefly document Hemphill's service as a member of Congress and Federal District Court judge, 1964 to 1983. The papers are arranged in seven series: General, Judicial, Speeches, Topical Files, Writings, Photographs, and Clippings. General Papers, 1926 to 1983, consist primarily of correspondence; this series documents Hemphill's political campaigns in 1950 for Solicitor and 1956 for Congress; activities in Congress, 1957 to 1964; and his 1964 appointment to the bench and subsequent judicial career; also contains records relating to the Democratic Party in Chester, S.C., and elsewhere in S.C.; and letters and other papers documenting social events associated with hunting and fishing which provided Judge Hemphill and his friends and associates with opportunities for fellowship and recreation. Correspondents include Sol Blatt, Jr.; John Bolt Culbertson; Tom S. Gettys; Clement F. Haynsworth, Jr.; Olin D. Johnston; John F. Kennedy; Robert Kennedy; J. Robert Martin, Jr.; Julius B. "Bubba" Ness; Donald Russell, John Spratt, Strom Thurmond; John West, and others. Judicial Opinions, 1964 to 1979, consist of eight bound volumes. Speeches include the texts of speeches presented by Hemphill as well as programs for events at which Hemphill spoke. Topical Files contain Hemphill's military records and reflect activities in his native Chester County, S.C.; and elsewhere; topics include Chester High School; Civil Air Patrol, 1966-1977; an autobiography of Weston Carrier Cook; life at USC during the Great Depression, 1933-1937; files re U.S. Army Air Force, 1941-1945 (Hemphill volunteered as a Flying Cadet and served as instructor stationed at airfields in Texas training pilots on the B-24 Liberator bomber). Material relating to Hemphill's leadership in Purity Presbyterian Church (Chester, S.C.) includes Sunday School lesson plans and minutes of the Board of Deacons. Writings consist of articles and drafts of articles, chiefly reminiscences of his courtroom experiences. In a letter to Thomas Harrington Pope, 13 January 1975, regarding Pope's editorial comments on an article for The Transcript, Hemphill noted, "I have a number of stories written, in a notebook in Columbia, that I cannot publish, because they would offend the people who are living....If the Lord lets me live...I am going to retire at age 65 and then try to see if I can write." Other materials inlcude photographs, miscellany, clippings, and 9 scrapbook volumes.

ArchivalResource: 6.25 linear feet

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Smoak, William Wightman, 1877-1947. William Wightman Smoak papers, 1895-1982.

Title: William Wightman Smoak papers, 1895-1982.

Constitution and bylaws, 1900, Smoaks Literary Society; constitution, ca. 1902, Business Men's League, Walterboro; papers, 1915, re establishment of Colleton County Co-operative Association; reports, July-Aug. 1922, of agent hired by Smoak to identify and assist in arrest of bootleggers in Walterboro. Correspondence and sales reports, 1926-1927, of Smoak as subdistrict sales manager, Myrtle Beach Sales Co., for Allendale, Colleton, Hampton, and Jasper counties; and correspondence and contracts, 1924-1940s, re Chautauqua series presented in Colleton County. Political materials include bills, 1927-1930, introduced by Smoak in S.C. House of Representatives; correspondence, 1929, as chairman, County Organization Committee, S.C. Natural Resources Commission, particularly re publicizing South Carolina's high levels of nutritionally beneficial iodine; correspondence, Jan.-Feb. 1930, with officials of the Women's Christian Temperance Union re legislation for harsher penalties for violating liquor laws. Papers, 1930, re Smoak's unsuccessful campaign for governor; and correspondence, 1932, with Niels Christensen, Jr., and other officers of the Farmers and Taxpayers League, re state budget. Also includes correspondence, speeches, and pamphlets, 1932, re vote to repeal prohibition; correspondence, 1933, re organizing county temperance organizations; letter, 19 May 1941, to South Carolina Senator R[ichard] M[anning] Jefferies, re possibility of Walterboro being bombed by Germany; and speech, 20 Apr. 1944, to the S.C. House of Representatives, re inability of black citizens to participate in a democratic government. Volumes contain secretary's book, 1895, Young People's Literary Aid, a literary club of which Smoak was president; teacher's registers, 1900-1901, Walterboro Graded School, of which Smoak was principal; unbound scrapbook, 1901-1902, and 1913, with clippings re family and community; and autograph book, 1902. Notebook, 1928-1929, re parliamentary rules, William Wightman Smoak, Speaker Pro Tempore, 1929-1930, S.C. House of Representatives; and pocket diary, 1946. Other correspondents include temperance leader, the Rev. Albert D. Betts, Solomon Blatt, James F. Byrnes, J. Rion McKissick, and L. Mendel Rivers.

ArchivalResource: 1,977 items and 9 volumes.

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Byrnes, James F. (James Francis), 1882-1972. James F. Byrnes papers. 1879-2007, 1933-1972.

Title: James F. Byrnes papers. 1879-2007, 1933-1972.

The James F. Byrnes papers consist of advertisements, architectural drawings, articles, artifacts, audiovisual materials, campaign materials, certificates, clippings, correspondence, editorials, executive orders, galley proofs, journals, laws and legal documents, legislative bills, lists, maps, microfilm, minutes, petitions, political cartoons, postcards, photographs, publications, reports, scrapbooks, speeches, telegrams, transcripts, and other material. Material in this collection cover the period 1831-2007, with the bulk of the material covering the period midway through his first term as U.S. Senator in 1933 to his death in 1972. The James F. Byrnes papers document his career as a U.S. Senator, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Director of the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion (OWMR) during World War II, U.S. Secretary of State and Governor of South Carolina. There is also material relating to his personal life; to his business affairs, including serving on the board of directors of the Newmont Mining Corporation; to his service on the Clemson College Board of Trustees; to the founding of the James F. Byrnes Foundation, which gives scholarships to South Carolina orphans; and to the writing of his two autobiographies, "Speaking Frankly" and "All in One Lifetime." The papers provide evidence of his close relationship with President Franklin D. Roosevelt as Byrnes helps him pass New Deal legislation during the Depression and then coordinates the home front economy during the World War II. They also document Byrnes' role in the immediate post-war peace process and the beginning of the Cold War, especially concerning U.S. policy on the reconstruction of Germany and its reintegration into world affairs. Finally, the collection has material concerning his growing disenchantment with the Democratic Party over civil rights, his support for Dwight Eisenhower in the 1952 presidential campaign, and his continuing disagreement over Supreme Court decisions against segregation, especially school segregation. Items of particular interest include the shorthand notes Byrnes took at the 1945 Yalta Conference; "W.B.'s book," which are excerpts from the journal Walter Brown kept while accompanying Byrnes to the Potsdam Conference in 1945; and Edwin W. Pauley's journal describing the trip of the U.S. Reparations Mission to what would become North Korea in 1946 and photographs from the Mission's visit to Manchuria that same year. There is also a great deal of material relating to the creation and the progress of the Santee-Cooper Power and Navigation Project from 1933-1941, including of photographs of historic homes in the inundation area, and minutes of the Potsdam Conference, Paris Peace Conference, and meetings of the Council of Foreign Ministers from 1945-1946. Other topics of interest include agriculture during the Depression; Byrnes' relationship with the War Production Board while head of OWMR; the Democratic National Conventions of 1940 and 1944 when Byrnes was a potential vice presidential candidate; the United Nations; and U.S. economic policy. There is also material relating to Byrnes' election to Senate in 1930 and his inauguration as Governor in 1951; his employee Willie Byrd; the presidential elections of 1936, 1940, 1944, 1956, 1960, 1964, and 1968; and to Alger Hiss, Henry Wallace, and Harry Dexter White. Major correspondents on other authors include Bernard Baruch, Christie Benet, Jim Berryman, Sol Blatt, Edgar Brown, Walter Brown, George Bye, Sir Winston Churchill, Lucius D. Clay, Benjamin Cohen, R. M. Cooper, Leo Crowley, Charles Daniel, B. M. Edwards, Dwight D. Eisenhower, James Farley, Gerald R. Ford, Felix Frankfurter, Wilton E. Hall, James H. Hammond, Frank Hogan, Harold Ickes, Ruth Jones, John F. Kennedy, Joseph P. Kennedy, George C. Marshall, Burnet Maybank, Porter McKeever, V. M. Molotov, Richard M. Nixon, Roger Peace, Lawrence M. Pinckney, Robert F. Poole, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Donald Russell, Fred Searls, Joseph Stalin, Herbert Bayard Swope, Strom Thurmond, Harry S. Truman, Arthur Vandenberg, Woodrow Wilson, and C. C. Wyche; there is also correspondence with members of the Byrnes, Busch, Fuller, and Miner families, especially his wife Maude Busch Byrnes and his sister Leonore B. Fuller as well as his long-term secretary Cassie Connor.

ArchivalResource: 163.3 cubic ft. (3,269 folders, 39 volumes, 1,700 photographs, 28 oversize photographs, 1 film reel, 1 videocassette, 37 phonograph records, 18 audiotapes, 10 audiocassettes, 9 rolls of microfilm, 266 oversize items, and 76 realia)

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Dent, Harry S., 1930-. Harry S. Dent papers, 1943-1987, (bulk 1969-1982).

Title: Harry S. Dent papers, 1943-1987, (bulk 1969-1982).

This collection consists primarily of correspondence and memos; it also includes agendas, articles, brochures, clippings, invitations, lists, a few maps, minutes, news releases, newsletters, notebooks, notes, polls, postcards, reports, reviews, schedules, scrapbooks, speech material, statements, statistics and telegrams. Most of this material dates from the period 1969-1982, with little on Dent's career prior to 1968 except the information provided in the scrapbooks. Photographs and memorabilia have been removed from the collection. The White House Files series consists primarily of correspondence and memoranda between Dent and other members of the Nixon White House staff. He was not only involved in inter-Republican Party politics, campaigning and patronage, but foreign and domestic policy as well--calculating the political ramifications for the Republican Party of administration policy in such areas as textile trade negotiations and busing, particularly in the South. Much of the material relates to the 1972 presidential campaign and the need to build Republican Party power at the state level and in the federal bureaucracy (such as the Office of Economic Opportunity). There are also files relating to ethnic groups (including African Americans) in politics, the 1970 campaign, the South Carolina Republican Party and Strom Thurmond. The Personal series continues the political focus of the papers, with the majority of the files relating to the Republican Party, the elections of 1974, 1976 and 1978 (Thurmond's senatorial campaign) and his book, The prodigal south returns to power. This series also reflects Dent's increasing participation in religious activities and his activities as a speaker. The Billy Graham Crusade series, which contain the (mostly fundraising) records of the South Carolina Billy Graham Crusade, enlarges upon Dent's activities in the evangelical movement.

ArchivalResource: 16 cubic ft., 11 v.

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United States. District Court (South Carolina). United States of America, plaintiff, Richard Ganaway, et al., plaintiffs-intervenors v. Charleston County School District and State of South Carolina, defendants : partial transcripts, 1987.

Title: United States of America, plaintiff, Richard Ganaway, et al., plaintiffs-intervenors v. Charleston County School District and State of South Carolina, defendants : partial transcripts, 1987.

Collection contains photocopied transcripts of court testimonies of a case heard before the Hon. Sol Blatt, Jr., Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court, Charleston, S.C., argued by Robert N. Rosen. Photocopies of transcripts include testimonies of Evelyn Haynes, Alma E. Shokes, Leroy F. Anderson, Edward S. Jenkins, William Merriweather, Charles Williams, Edmund L. Drago, James B. Brockington, Benjamin Powers, Jr., Joseph G. Thompson, Ethel Grimball, Lewis Waring, and James Fields.

ArchivalResource: 3 v.

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Thurmond, Strom, 1902-2003. Strom Thurmond PINKS series microfilm, 1954-1976.

Title: Strom Thurmond PINKS series microfilm, 1954-1976.

The PINK Series constitutes a cross-reference file, of pink colored carbon paper, for subject correspondence generated by Senator Thurmond's office for the period from 1954-1976. The material microfilmed is correspondence from constituents, colleagues, government officials of various levels, friends and family directly related to material found in the Subject Correspondence series. Correspondents named in this series include: Solomon Blatt, Walter J. Brown, James F. Byrnes, William Jennings Bryan Dorn, Robert C. Edwards, Barry M. Goldwater, Lyndon B. Johnson, Robert F. Poole, and Richard B. Russell.

ArchivalResource: 2 cubic ft. (202 rolls of microfilm, representing 84 cubic ft. of original correspondence)

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Frierson, J. Nelson (James Nelson). J. Nelson Frierson papers, 1911 June 1-1959 Dec. 18.

Title: J. Nelson Frierson papers, 1911 June 1-1959 Dec. 18.

Correspondence, writings, and miscellaneous items relating to Frierson's career as law professor and dean of University of South Carolina School of Law. Included are alumni related items from the School of Law at Columbia University and estate papers of Samuel A. Horn, Ormsby Bourke Tilton, and E.M. Rucker; correspondents include Alma B. Adams, Frank H. Bailey, Solomon Blatt, Anne King Gregorie, Daniel W. Hollis, Olin D. Johnston, Richard B. Morris, Francis S. Philbrick, and Yates Snowden. Includes newspaper clippings, notes, and draft of Frierson's paper "Divorce in South Carolina," published in N.C. Law Review (vol. 9, 1931); writings on legal history, and his book, Records of the Court of Chancery of South Carolina, 1670-1779, published in collaboration with Anne King Gregorie in 1950, and archival preservation of historic documents in South Carolina, including Duke University professor [Robert H.] Woody's "Report on the South Carolina Archives" and anonymous report, "Charleston Archives Prior to 1783." Other items reflect Frierson's involvement in the 1950s on behalf of humanitarian causes, chiefly South Carolina Tuberculosis Association and South Carolina Association for the Blind.

ArchivalResource: 1 carton (1.25 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/45705874 View

Thurmond, Strom, 1902-2003. Strom Thurmond executive assistant series, 1937-, bulk 1970-1986.

Title: Strom Thurmond executive assistant series, 1937-, bulk 1970-1986.

Correspondence, memorands, reports, grant applications, clippings, blueprints and plans, photographs and financial records concerning projects, loans and grants in South Carolina, such as grants-in-aid for development, water and sewer systems and education. There are also files relating to the political campaigns of 1964, 1966, 1972, 1976 and 1978 and the "Orangeburg Massacre" in 1968. Specific projects covered by material in this series include the Richard B. Russell Dam and Lake (formerly Trotter's Shoals), Charleston Harbor, Patriot's Point and Fort Moultrie. The series documents agency contacts and sources of information with the Senator's office.

ArchivalResource: 48 cubic ft.

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Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005. Personal papers: Campaigns, 1940-1986.

Title: Personal papers: Campaigns, 1940-1986.

Consisting of items documenting political campaigns of Dorn and others at the local, state, and national levels. Collection includes 0.5 linear feet re Dorn's unsuccessful 1948 Senate campaign, including his attacks upon Judge Julius Waties Waring, and the blame Dorn placed for his loss on the financial resources of former governor and incumbent U.S. Senator Burnet R. Maybank; and mailings, 1954, from the Democratic National Committee. Items from 1954 elections document Dorn's consideration of a write-in campaign during the 1954 election challenging Edgar A. Brown for the U.S. Senate; correspondence documents Dorn's decision to forego the plan because it would confuse the political race and weaken the Democratic party in South Carolina. Collection also documents Dorn's unopposed reelections to Congress in 1956, 1958, 1960 and 1962 representing the third district; and records, 1956, re presidential campaign of Adlai Stevenson, on whose behalf Dorn campaigned in Florida. Files, 1960, include correspondence regarding Dorn's interest in nominating then governor, Ernest F. Hollings, for the presidency, and Hollings' refusal; transcript, 9 September 1960, of television debate between John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon; and correspondence, ca. 1962, re speculation that Dorn might challenge Olin D. Johnston for the United States Senate, possibly as a Republican. Also including extensive files documenting Dorn's gubernatorial campaigns of 1974 and 1978, including 1974 correspondence with Sol Blatt, H.P. Stephenson, and Julius Wolfe.

ArchivalResource: 5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38125012 View

Brown, Edgar A. (Edgar Allan), 1888-1975. Edgar Brown papers. 1911-1975 : 1950-1972.

Title: Edgar Brown papers. 1911-1975 : 1950-1972.

The papers document much of Brown's political career. He served at the national level as executive committeeman and as a delegate to conventions, of the Democratic Party and as a long time representative on the Council of State Governments. Among his major interests were education, educational television, mental health, industrial, highways and ports development, and state government reorganization. Many of the papers document his service to his constituents and Barnwell county. As a Life trustee of Clemson University, there is a variety of material related to the University's operations. Scrapbooks, 1911-1972, and boxes of newspaper clippings, 1920-1975 provide a good overview of Brown's life. Photographs include members of the various legislative committees, personal friends, and family members.

ArchivalResource: 147 cubic ft. 117 cubic ft. papers, 31 scrapbooks, 1920-1975, 4.5 cubic ft. photographs 115" and 7" tape recordings, 3 cassette recordings, 4 3/4" videotapes, 2 reels 15 mm. television film.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23745990 View

Thurmond, Strom, 1902-2003. Strom Thurmond speeches series 1935-

Title: Strom Thurmond speeches series 1935-

Contains not only speech material, such as addresses, remarks, speeches, statements and addresses/remarks/statements on the Senate floor, but articles (by and about Thurmond), questions and answers (interviews), "Reports to the People" (newsletters), telegrams, telephone logs, and a small amount of correspondence. Material in this series reflect the thoughts, opinions and philosophy of Thurmond. Among the subjects covered in this material are civil rights, states' rights, segeration, military preparedness, anti-communism, foreign policy and trade.

ArchivalResource: 52.5 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20230717 View

Smoak, William Wightman, 1877-1947. Papers, 1895-1982.

Title: Papers, 1895-1982.

Correspondence, diary, autograph book, scrapbook, speeches, pamphlets, campaign materials, newspaper clippings, and other papers, relating to Smoak's career as editor and publisher of The Press and Standard, his political career in Walterboro, S.C., and as member of South Carolina House of Representatives, including chairman of County Organization Committee of the South Carolina Natural Resources Commission. Other subjects include agriculture, development of South Carolina's agricultural potential, development of Myrtle Beach, S.C., liquor laws, temperance, prohibition, state budget, and his family. Includes papers concerning his interest in literary societies and education in Walterboro, S.C., including attendance records and teacher registers. Other places represented include Colleton County, S.C. Correspondents include Albert Deems Betts, Solomon Blatt, James Francis Byrnes, Niels Christensen, Richard M. Jefferies, J. Rion McKissick, L. Mendel Rivers, and Woman's Christian Temperance Union.

ArchivalResource: 1977 items and 9 v.

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Blatt, Solomon, 1896-1986. Solomon Blatt papers, 1918-1986; (bulk, 1933-1986).

Title: Solomon Blatt papers, 1918-1986; (bulk, 1933-1986).

Consisting chiefly of public papers, primarily correspondence, relating to Blatt's role as a member of the South Carolina House from Barnwell County, 1933-1936, and Speaker, 1935-1946 and 1951-1971. Contains constitutent mail, requests for government positions, assistance in gaining college acceptance; etc. Legal papers (consisting of Sub-series: General; Client Files, 1961-1986; and Topical Files) relates to Blatt's legal practice in the firm of Blatt and Fales. Topical files relate to juror character inquiries, the dissolution of the firm of Blatt and Fales, founded in 1934 and dissolved in 1984; Voorhees College, 1976-1986; and an asbestos suit involving the schools of Greenville and Spartanburg, c.1981-1986. Other correspondents include many members of the S.C. General Assembly, other state officials and members of S.C.'s delegation to Congress, including J.K. Breedin, Edgar Brown, Richard M. Jefferies, Bruce Littlejohn, Burnet Maybank, Julius B. Ness, Thomas H. Pope, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Archibald Rutledge. Personal files include family correspondence, financial records, and papers of wife Ethel. Scrapbooks, 1936-1979, consisting of 30 bound volumes, include an undated scrapbook, My University Years, re student life at USC prior to Blatt's graduation in 1917. Also includes photographs; clippings; speeches, 1939-1984; together with the papers of Federal Judge Solomon Blatt, Jr., principally outgoing letters, 1962-1967.

ArchivalResource: 30 v.

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Thurmond, Strom, 1902-2003. Strom Thurmond photographs series, 1902-2002, bulk 1923-2002.

Title: Strom Thurmond photographs series, 1902-2002, bulk 1923-2002.

Consists of photographs, negatives and positives, documenting the life and career of Strom Thurmond, including those of his family, friends, and associates. Series includes photographs, many autographed portraits, of Media, Political, and Military VIPs. Also includes photographs of European cemetaries for Veterans of World Wars I and II from the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC). Correspondents named in this series include: Solomon Blatt; Walter J. Brown; J. Fred Buzhardt, d. 1966; J. Fred Buzhardt, 1924-1978; James F. Byrnes; Charles E. Daniel; William Jennings Bryan Dorn; Robert C. Edwards; Dwight D. Eisenhower; Barry M. Goldwater; Robert McC. Figg; Alester Garden Furman; Alester G. Furman; Billy Graham; J. Edgar Hoover; Lyndon B. Johnson; Olin D. Johnston; Bob Jones, 1883-1968; Bob Jones, 1911-1997; Burnet R. Maybank; Roger Milliken; Robert F. Poole; Paul Quattlebaum, 1886-1964; Paul Quattlebaum, 1912-2003; L. Mendel Rivers; Richard B. Russell; James Cuthbert Self; James C. Self; John M. Spratt; Herman E. Talmadge; George Bell Timmerman; Jean Crouch Thurmond; Harry S. Truman; George C. Wallace; and Fielding Wright.

ArchivalResource: 78.5 cubic ft.

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Ackerman, William, 1915-1999,. Oral history interview with William Ackerman, 1996.

Title: Oral history interview with William Ackerman, 1996.

The son of Harry Ackerman, who emigrated before 1900 at about the age of 19 from Hungary, and Lena Klein, also from Hungary, William Ackerman was born in California, Pennsylvania, in 1915. His parents had met in Philadelphia, married, and then set up a series of grocery and department stores in coal mining towns in Pennsylvania. Ackerman grew up mostly in Brownsville, PA, a coal-mining town that had about 35 orthodox Jewish families, all from the same area in Hungary. Harry Ackerman became a millionaire and then lost most of his money, due to coal strikes in the 1920s. His son William attended Hebrew school, became a high school football player, and attended Dickinson College on a football scholarship. There he got his law degree, and he practiced law for two years before entering the service in World War II. He served at Fort Jackson in Columbia, S.C., where he met Jennie Shimel from Charleston. After four years in Europe, he returned to the States and married Jennie Shimel, daughter of Assistant U.S. District Attorney, Louis Shimel. To keep his son-in-law in town and to overcome Ackerman's disinclination to study to pass the SC State Bar Examination, Shimel had lawmaker Solomon Blatt pass a law to make that unnecessary. Practicing as an attorney for years, Ackerman became active in many facets of Charleston life. A progressive and liberal candidate, he lost the Democratic Party nomination for Mayor to incumbent J. Palmer Gaillard in 1970 by less than 100 votes. Ackerman was a key player in the development of suburban Charleston, buying and developing the area now called South Windemere, west of the Ashley River in Charleston and creating a shopping center there. He gives many details on how that came about and relates another story of Solomon Blatt having the state of South Carolina sell Ackerman the marsh acreage he wanted for a very low price. Ackerman was president of the Jewish Community Center when it moved West of the Ashley, as well, and he acknowledges his role in changing the Jewish demographics of Charleston.

ArchivalResource: Sound recording : 1 sound cassette : digital.Transcript : 50 p. ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49915297 View

Martin, Dexter C., 1897-1982. Dexter C. Martin papers, 1919-1982.

Title: Dexter C. Martin papers, 1919-1982.

Correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, and other papers documenting Martin's career as director of South Carolina Aeornautics Commission, promoter of the development (1941-1947) of Lexington County Airport (later Columbia Metropolitan Airport), and his tenure as member (1938-1972) and president (1940-1945) of the National Association of State Aviation Officers. Contains items of World War II era documenting Martin's promotion of the Civil Air Patrol (C.A.P.) and Civilian Pilot Training (C.P.T.) programs, as well as his interest in legislation re state versus federal control and the implementation of gasoline taxes; 2 documents, 1924, Martin's aviator's certificate and pilot's license, both signed by Orville Wright; and seven oversize scrapbooks, 1927-1964, containing photos and newspaper articles re Martin's early flying career and the development of aviation facilities in South Carolina. Oversize scrapbook Vol. I (1927-1936), re early pilots, wingwalkers, and other entertainers of early decades of aviation, the Mabel Cody Flying Circus, women pilots, including Margie Hobbs who preformed under the name "Ethel Dare," and others; Vol. II (1934-1964); Vol. III (1943-1946); and Vol. IV (1935-1947), re NASAO, Delta Airlines, and the "Breakfast Club" (Camden, S.C.); Oversize scrapbook Vol. V (1937-1947), re development of airport facilities in upstate S.C. Counties of Anderson, Greenville, Spartanburg; Vol. VI (1937-1947), re development of Owens Field in Columbia / Richland County and the airport in Lexington County, S.C.; Vol. VII (1935-1949), re development of airports in several dozen other S.C. localities. Two volumes, 1919-1970 (letter size), consisting of clippings, photographs, and letters re the aviation career of pioneer stunt flyer Ethel Dare (Margaret Spears Hobbs); and 2 volumes (letter size, available onsite) consisting of Martin's index to his scrapbook volumes. Other correspondents include Solomon Blatt, Edgar A. Brown (1888-1975), South Carolina governors R.M. Jefferies (b. 1889), Olin D. Johnston (1896-1965), Burnet R. Maybank (1899-1954) and Ransome J. Williams, and various persons associated with Delta Air Lines and federal and state aeronautical agencies.

ArchivalResource: 6.25 linear ft. (5 cartons)11 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28412524 View

Cauthen, John K., 1906-1973. John Kelly Cauthen papers. 1933-1980, bulk 1965-1973.

Title: John Kelly Cauthen papers. 1933-1980, bulk 1965-1973.

The papers span the years 1933-1980. They are divided into five (5) sections : South Carolina Politics; Textile industry; Boards and Commissions; Personal and South Carolina Commission on Higher Education. Materials include clippings, correspondence, reports, rough drafts of essays, 21 VHS tapes and 110 photographs. Photographs have been removed and placed in photograph collection. High significance areas are South Carolina Commission on Higher Education, South Carolina Politics and Personal. Of lesser significance are Textile industry and Boards and Commissions.

ArchivalResource: 4 cubic ft. 10 boxes, 21 VHS tapes, 110 photos.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25920386 View