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Morris, William C., fl. ca. 2003. William C. Morris papers, 1967 Mar.-2003 Sept. 27.

Title: William C. Morris papers, 1967 Mar.-2003 Sept. 27.

Reprint of eleven newspaper articles that urge reform of prisons and the S.C. penal system; series appeared in a Greenville, S.C., newspaper beginning 6 Mar. 1967; essays discuss conditions and treatment of prisoners at state and county levels; includes letter, 27 Sept. 2003, in which Morris notes impact of the stories. Topics discussed include life in work camps and on chain gangs; prison facilities in Counties of Anderson, Greenville, and Pickens; reports from prisoners that state facilities offered better treatment and rehabilitiation opportunities than those at the county level; and results of survey compeleted by 42 of S.C.'s 46 counties in which officials reported number of prisoners in each camp, annual budget, salary for guards, use of chains, extent of recreational facilities, etc. Morris urges his readers to support "House Bill 1288 for state inspections of prisons and jails"; state leaders and organizations active in the movement for prison reform in S.C. include the Alston Wilkes Society, Rex L. Carter, Judge Frank Eppes, and Wayne Cooper. Includes letter, 27 Sept. 2003, in which Morrison reports that 3000 copies of this reprint were distributed nationwide and in United Kingdom, and that director of S.C. Prisons, Ellis C. MacDougall, considered that this series was "'significantly' responsible for the changes from a chain-gang system to the more efficient and humane prisons in the U.S."

ArchivalResource: 2 items : ill. ; 58 cm. or smaller.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53337976 View

Stackhouse, Eunice Temple Ford, 1885-1980. Eunice Temple Ford Stackhouse papers, 1910-1980.

Title: Eunice Temple Ford Stackhouse papers, 1910-1980.

Consisting of scrapbooks, notebooks, speeches, reports, statements, letters, photographs, and miscellaneous printed items. Three typescript volumes, 1957, of a biography, "An Appreciation: Eunice Temple Ford Stackhouse," by Bessie Rogers Drake; specimen speeches: "The Need for Socialized Criminal Justice," "Crime and Its Treatment," and "Our Senior Citizens"; miscellaneous academic course notebooks and club papers, including "Summary of Life and Writings of Julia Peterkin," "Values and Symbols," and "The Mind-Body Problem: Its Development Into the Dualism of Descartes." Also includes journal, 1914, of European trip; scripts for historical dramas "The King's Highway" [Georgetown, 1950] and "The Cherokee Trail" [Cherokee County, 1954]; and biographical information on her husband, Thomas Bascomb Stackhouse, and her father, the Rev. Rufus Ford. Organizations represented include South Carolina Council on Human Relations, South Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs, South Carolina Citizens Committee on Crime Prevention and Rehabilitation, State Committee on Jails, South Carolina Rehabilitation Association, South Carolina Senior Citizens Council, Citizens Design for Progress, Seniors and Handicapped Citizens Committee, and South Carolina White House Conference Committee on Children and Youth. Correspondents include John Richard Craft, Robert Colley Granberry, Lee Davis Lodge, Ellis C. MacDougall, Henry N. Snyder, and Annie B. Weston; topical materials relate to the James T. Sims House, 1511 Laurel Street, Columbia, S.C., the Stackhouse residence which was willed to the South Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs; Washington Street Methodist Church; Columbia College, Columbia Museum of Art; Epworth Children's Home; and the Huntington Fine Arts Club.

ArchivalResource: 1.25 linear ft. (1 carton)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/44696010 View