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Gore, Blinzy L. On a hilltop high : the origin and history Claflin College to 1984 [199-].

Title: On a hilltop high : the origin and history Claflin College to 1984 [199-].

Manuscript for the book, On a hilltop high, the origin and history of Claflin College to 1984.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70966686 View

Benedict College. College Freshman English Curriculum Development Institute : a 7 college cooperative program, 1968.

Title: College Freshman English Curriculum Development Institute : a 7 college cooperative program, 1968.

An experiential curriculum for teaching English to black college freshman developed by participants of the College Freshman English Curriculum Development Institute, financed by the Ford Foundation and held 1 July-10 Aug. 1968. The institute included representatives from Allen University, Benedict College, Claflin College, Friendship Junior College, Morris College, South Carolina State College, and Voorhees College.

ArchivalResource: 142 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70967551 View

Claflin College (Orangeburg, S.C.). Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs. Vice president for academic affairs records, 1939-1990.

Title: Vice president for academic affairs records, 1939-1990.

Materials consist of reports to the president from the vice-presidents for academic affairs Ernest A. Finney, E. Horace Fitchett, and B.L. Gore (1943-1979); general faculty and staff meeting minutes (1939-1982); education faculty meeting minutes (1954-1974); faculty assignments (1972-1974); faculty committee lists and reports (1967-1974); faculty and staff directories; faculty handbooks; faculty institute report (1967); faculty questionnaire forms (1967-1985); summer school reports (1949-1950); Teacher Education Program evaluation reports (1974-1983); college standards reports (1948-1990); and Summer Institute for High School and Junior High School Teachers of Science and Mathematics reports (1960-1964).

ArchivalResource: ca. 75 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70966696 View

Claflin College (Orangeburg, S.C.). Programs, 1905-1993.

Title: Programs, 1905-1993.

Programs include Religious Emphasis Week (1955-1984), baccalaureate service (1948-1971), commencement (1905, 1921-1983), honors and awards (1956-1986), Founders' Day (1952-1986), Founders' Day Library Convocation which includes information on the new H.V. Manning Library (1967), convocations, Christmas, choir concerts, retirement, homecoming, and conventions.

ArchivalResource: ca. 440 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70966688 View

Fields, Mamie Garvin, 1888-. Mamie E. Garvin Fields papers, 1894-1987 (bulk 1945-1985).

Title: Mamie E. Garvin Fields papers, 1894-1987 (bulk 1945-1985).

The majority of the collection details Mamie Garvin Fields's involvement with the National Association of Colored Women Clubs, Inc., and her role as state president of the South Carolina Federation of Colored Women's Clubs in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Papers include organizational materials, meeting minutes, correspondence, newsletters and photographs. Many of the materials-- photocopied photographs, programs and essays (1950-1985) detailing activities of the Coastal, Central/Marion Birnie Wilkinson, Pee Dee and Piedmont Districts-- were clipped from various newsletters and publications, such as SCFCWC's Our Book of Gold: Fiftieth Anniversary yearbook. Additionally, the district series contains organizational materials, letters and group photographs of clubs, and individual members from such cities and towns as Charleston, Elloree, Aiken, Barnwell, Columbia, Orangeburg, Cheraw, Darlington, Florence, Sumter, Rock Hill, Seneca, and Greenville, S.C. Biographical data and images exist for such notable S.C. women as Septima Clark, Susan Dart Butler, Albertha J. Murray and others. The Marion Birnie Wilkinson Home for Girls series contains correspondence between Fields and the home's namesake, drafts and typed tributes and other writings by Fields re her position as superintendent (1960-63) at this home for delinquents, along with photocopied photographs and articles from newsletters (1949-1968). A smaller yet substantial series relates to Fields's book Lemon Swamp (1983) including material on her co-author and granddaughter, Karen Fields, organizational material for the manuscript; correspondence; photocopied book reviews and photographs of the authors at book signing events. Family materials (1894-1986) include letters; photographs; Garvin family trees (1949), newsletters, programs and photographs of the Bellinger/Akmal (1982, 84) and Middleton family reunions (1986). The series on affiliations documents Fields's involvements with social, civic, and religious institutions. Women's organizations represented include the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW), with programs, clippings and photographs re Mary McLeod Bethune. Child Day Care and other civic association (1969-1980) materials include letters, copies of clippings and photographs relating to the Charleston Nursery and Mamie Fields Day Care Center, Y.M.C.A. and other organizations. Centenary Methodist Church (1950-1986) files contain organizational materials, letters, newsletters, programs, photographs and materials relating to the South Carolina Conference of the Methodist Church. Visual materials contain numerous original individual photographs (1910, 1940-1980) of Fields, alone and with relatives, friends and associates; the majority being unidentified. There is a photograph of members of the Charleston Inter-racial Commission, a group photograph that includes President John F. Kennedy, and one of Dizzy Gillespie.

ArchivalResource: 3 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/133145105 View

Claflin College (Orangeburg, S.C.). Board of Trustees. Board of Trustees minutes, [ca. 1870]-1987 (bulk 1870-1960).

Title: Board of Trustees minutes, [ca. 1870]-1987 (bulk 1870-1960).

Minutes are contained in bound volumes 1870-1915, 1916-1960, and 1984-1987.

ArchivalResource: 3 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70966671 View

Middleton, Abraham, b. 1827. Abraham Middleton papers, 1878-1893.

Title: Abraham Middleton papers, 1878-1893.

Chiefly consisting of notebook, account book, and diary re Abraham Middleton's work as a Methodist Episcopal minister. Two volumes, 1878-1882 and 1884, record funerals, marriages, pastoral visits, and accounts for various expenses, including taxes, transportation, and household goods, including entry, 25 July 1882, agreement between Middleton and Robert Benton for planting three acres of cotton and corn. Diary, 24 Oct. 1892-23 June 1893, re Middleton's visits to regional churches, invitations to speak, settlement of disputes among church members, and increasing church attendance, including diary entry, 2 Dec. 1892, re preaching at a Florence, S.C., church; entry, 2 Feb. 1893, re recent deaths of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, James Gillespie Blaine, Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, and Benjamin Franklin Butler. Entry, 8 Mar. 1893, re recent lynchings in S.C., and 26 Apr. 1893, re a lynching in Denmark, S.C.; entry, 19-20 Apr. 1893, re attendance at a hearing in Bennettsville, S.C. for a minister charged and found guilty of immoral conduct; entry, 12 May 1893, re 50th anniversary of Middleton's joining the Methodist Episcopal Church of Charleston, S.C.; entry, 23 and 24 May 1893, re progress and celebrations at Claflin College, Orangeburg, S.C.; and entry, 24 June 1893, re the earthquake.

ArchivalResource: 3 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41063078 View

H.V. Manning Library. Library records, 1947-1988 (bulk 1963-1980).

Title: Library records, 1947-1988 (bulk 1963-1980).

Materials consist of correspondence, memoranda, handbooks, policy manuals, and other materials relating to the administration of the library; acquisition and subscription records; library newsletters; photographs and audiotapes of campus events and lectures; vertical file material such as programs, posters, newsletters, and news clippings, primarily relating to South Carolina, African-American history, black college libraries, civil rights, and Claflin College alumni.

ArchivalResource: 5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70966679 View

Robinson, Louisa S. Louisa S. Robinson papers, 1924-1991.

Title: Louisa S. Robinson papers, 1924-1991.

College catalogs, programs, newspapers, photographs, and clippings reflecting Louisa S. Robinson's life as a student at the Colored Normal, Industrial, Agricultural and Mechanical College of South Carolina, her career at Claflin College, and events at both schools. Items of note include programs from Benjamin E. Mays' annual Easter address at the Colored Normal, Industrial, Agricultural and Mechanical College of South Carolina, 1940 and 1943; a 1924 commencement program; two photographs of Marion Birnie Wilkinson, wife of State's second president Robert Shaw Wilkinson; a program from the 1969 commissioning of the U.S.S. Sea Devil; a group photograph of music instructor Charles Harris, English instructor Julius Caesar Bryant, instructor of poultry husbandry Ko. W.G. Donma, and stenographer/bookkeeper/registrar E. Viola Means Donma; and a Christmas card from State's third president, Miller F. Whittaker.

ArchivalResource: .5 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/47038818 View

South Carolina Agricultural College and Mechanics' Institute (Orangeburg, S.C.). Petition to University of South Carolina Trustees, 1878 Mar. 24.

Title: Petition to University of South Carolina Trustees, 1878 Mar. 24.

Petition to University of South Carolina Trustees, through Governor Wade Hampton, requesting that the Rev. Edward Cooke not be appointed as president of the South Carolina Agricultural and Mechanics' Institute; signed by twenty-four African-American state legislators. Ultimately unsuccessful, this petition cited concerns reporting that Cooke's administration at Claflin University had been unpopular, that he did not respect African-Americans as a race, and that he did not "have the interest of our youth at heart."

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34415059 View

Phinazee, Annette Lewis Hoage, 1920-1983. Annette Lewis Phinazee papers, 1931-1969.

Title: Annette Lewis Phinazee papers, 1931-1969.

Correspondence, minutes, financial statements, and receipts relating to the Orangeburg County Colored Fair Association, 1931-1961. Also includes materials relating to activities in South Carolina, including South Carolina State College, Claflin College, Felton Laboratory School, Morris College, and the Sunlight Club.

ArchivalResource: .5 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/47038816 View

Davis, Marianna W. Marianna W. Davis papers, [197-]-[198-].

Title: Marianna W. Davis papers, [197-]-[198-].

Materials relating to the life of Davis including three photos of Davis, news clippings about and by Davis, a few of her articles, Equal Rights Amendment brochures, and Contribution of Black Women to America factsheet.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70967565 View

Murray, Albertha J., 1889-1969. Albertha Johnston Murray papers, ca. 1909-1970 (bulk 1920-1965).

Title: Albertha Johnston Murray papers, ca. 1909-1970 (bulk 1920-1965).

Papers consist of letters, speeches, programs, newspaper clippings, certificates and photographs reflecting Murray's work as a student, teacher, and principal at Murray-LaSaine Elementary School, on James Island, at Charleston, S.C., along with her affiliations with professional and civic organizations. With materials on Dart Grammar and Primary School, Avery Normal Institute, and others. Murray's writings relate to the education of teachers and parents of young children, virtues and religious themes. The series of schools and colleges include letters and programs from the institutions Murray attended, and where she taught or spoke. The educational, church, women and volunteer affiliations series contains letters, speeches, programs, and certificates from the various national, state and local teacher and civic organizations to which Murray belonged, including the S.C. Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, the Charleston, S.C. chapter of Links, Central Baptist Church, and others such as the McClennan-Banks Memorial Hospital. Murray's papers also include a series with her relatives; parents, William Henry and Mary Ellen Virgin Johnston; sister, Anolta Williams; her husband, Richard G. Murray; daughter, Hazel M. Stewart; son-in-law, James W. Stewart II; and nephew, William E. Johnston. Photographs depict Murray with her family, students, and faculty at Claflin College (now University), Cut Bridge School, Bettis Academy and Murray-LaSaine Elementary School, along with group pictures of Murray in numerous teacher and civic organizations. Includes photographs of Susan Dart Butler and Mary Alice LaSaine.

ArchivalResource: 0.75 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/166408949 View

Claflin College (Orangeburg, S.C.). Publications, 1916-1994.

Title: Publications, 1916-1994.

College publications include catalogs (1916-1993); factbooks (1991-1993); Claflin Review (1976-1986); Claflin News (1926); faculty and staff handbooks (1965-1980); student handbooks (1947-1987); Claflin Panther student newspaper (1951-1976); Les Memoirs student yearbook (1956-1994); alumni bulletin (1972-1988); and bulletins, brochures, newsletters, and calendars.

ArchivalResource: 5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70966689 View

Wynn, Daniel Webster, 1919-. Papers. 1936-79.

Title: Papers. 1936-79.

Clergyman, educator, and author. Chiefly correspondence, together with articles, book reviews, reports, speeches, autobiographical sketch, teaching contracts, institutional agenda, constitutions, and minutes, lists, programs, clippings, and photos, relating to civil rights struggles in Alabama while Wynn was chaplain and professor of philosophy at Tuskegee Institute, working with Charles Goode Comillion and Tuskegee Civic Association, and to predominantly black church-related colleges for which he was responsible while associate director, Division of Higher Education and Ministry, United Methodist Church, Nashville, Tenn., and his efforts to integrate the division. Includes two letters (1959, 1960) from Martin Luther King, Jr., and one (1975) from Coretta Scott King. Colleges represented include Bennett College, Greensboro, N.C., Bethune-Cookman College, Daytona Beach, Fla., Claflin College, Orangeburg, S.C., Clark College, Atlanta, Ga., Dillard University, New Orleans, La., Huston-Tillotson College, Austin, Tex., Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tenn., Paine College, Augusta, Ga., Philander Smith College, Little Rock, Ark., Rust College, Holly Springs, Miss., and Wiley College, Marshall, Tex. Correspondents include Allen Knight Chalmers, Ernest Thomas Dixon, Jr., Samuel Lucius Gandy, William Henri Hale, William Asbury McMillan, Hubert Vernon Manning, Jacob C. Oglesby, Richard V. Moore, Julius Samuel Scott, James Samuel Thomas, and Myron Forest Wicke, and other college presidents and Methodist officials.

ArchivalResource: 4.4 linear ft. 11 Boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20387059 View

Claflin College (Orangeburg, S.C.). Office of the President. Hubert V. Manning records, 1960-1983.

Title: Hubert V. Manning records, 1960-1983.

Materials of Hubert V. Manning, sixth president of Claflin University and Claflin College (1956-1984).

ArchivalResource: 0.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70966676 View

Claflin University. Photographs, [ca. 1920]-1990 (bulk 1940-1960).

Title: Photographs, [ca. 1920]-1990 (bulk 1940-1960).

Photographs of Claflin University students, faculty, staff, and buildings, and campus events such as commencement, Founder's Day, Homecoming, and church related events.

ArchivalResource: 3 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70966687 View

Beacham, Frank. Frank Beacham papers, 1988-2000.

Title: Frank Beacham papers, 1988-2000.

Essays, scripts, audio tapes, notes and other materials re the research and publications of this S.C. journalist reflecting his involvement with coverage of various events in S.C. history. Materials re radio program titled, "The Orangeburg Massacre," written and directed by Beacham, a dramatization of the book written by journalists Jack Bass and Jack Nelson, broadcast by American Public Radio (1990 and 1993), including final draft of script, 1 Sept. 1990, audiocassette of the production (which starred David Carradine, Blair Underwood, and James Whitmore), extensive press response to the broadcast, and comments by Jack Bass, Cleveland Sellers, and Columbia newspaperman Kent Krell, in addition to those of Beacham himself; includes taped interview with Rhett Jackson (Dec. 1993), a member of the S.C. Probation, Pardon, and Parole Board, re the pardon (20 July 1993) of Sellers for his conviction. Consisting of 6 audiocassettes of radio retrospective "Theatre of the Imagination: The Radio Days of Orson Welles," with accompanying press material; one CD-ROM of "Theatre of the Imagination: Radio Stories by Orson Welles and The Mercury Theatre." Other examples of Beacham's published writings focus on aspects of information technology, the impact of technological change, and sound, written for two magazines: TV Technology and Radio World, as well as a syndicated column, "Questioning Technology"; also including 2 bound volumes, American Cinematographer Video Manual (1992 and 1994 editions), with introduction by Frank Beacham. Also including transcript copy, "Questions and More Questions about South Carolina ETV: Testimony by Frank Beacham, Nov. 20, 1995"; published articles and essays re documentary film "The Uprising of '34," the controversy surrounding SCETV's refusal to broadcast the work, and dedication, 29 May 1995, of a memorial honoring the seven textile workers killed on 6 Sept. 1934 at the Chiquola Mill (Honea Path, S.C.). Also including article, "Charlie's Place," published in Oxford American, Nov.-Dec. 2000, re efforts by Ku Klux Klan to control interracial dancing at Myrtle Beach, S.C., during 1950s, and harassment of Charlie Fitzgerald, proprietor of an African American night club in Horry County, S.C.

ArchivalResource: 1 CD-ROM.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32851303 View

Reames, J. Mitchell (James Mitchell), 1920-1987. J. Mitchell Reames papers, 1907-1990.

Title: J. Mitchell Reames papers, 1907-1990.

Correspondence, writings, reports, newsclippings, scrapbooks, and audio tapes documenting chiefly J.M. Reames' career as an academic librarian in South Carolina and Louisiana and his activities as a layman in the Methodist Church. Papers documenting the history of academic and public libraries in South Carolina and Southeast, especially re University of South Carolina, Clemson University, Francis Marion College, South Carolina Library Association, and Southwestern Library Association; papers re United Methodist Church in South Carolina, South Carolina Methodist Conference, McCleod's Chapel Methodist Church, Rembert, Trenholm Road Methodist Church, Columbia, and Central Methodist Church, Florence. Papers re other institutions, including Claflin College, Orangeburg, which Reames served as member of the board of trustees, and Furman University, focusing in particular on the 1940s crisis in faculty hiring practices. Also contains topical files re Reames' interest or involvement in the Christian Action Council, Columbia School for the Laity, journalist Weldon James, African-American Congressman George Washington Murray, and the history of Sumter County. Correspondents include Albert S. Berghauser, A. McKay Brabham, Jr., E. Milby Burton, James F. Byrnes, Hodding Carter, J. Isaac Copeland, James McBride Dabbs, Cyrus B. Dawsey, W.J. Bryan Dorn, J.H. Easterby, Ernest A. Finney, Jr., James T. Gittman, John Goodman, Frank P. Graham, Larry A. Jackson, Rhett Jackson, Weldon James, Ernest F. Hollings, Arthur M. Martin, Earle E. Morris, Jr., Jack Morris, Albert C. Outler, Edwin McNeill Poteat, Robert Franklin Poole, Alfred Rawlinson, R. Wright Spears, Eben Taylor, and Estellene P. Walker.

ArchivalResource: 12.5 linear ft. (10 cartons)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31507206 View