Adams, E. A. (Eugene Avery), 1886-1958.

African American educator and clergyman of Columbia, S.C.; minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church; a founder of Victory Savings Bank in Columbia during 1920s; also founder of Bell Street High School (Columbia, S.C.), and of the South Carolina Citizens Committee, a state-wide civil rights organization that advocated voting rights and equalization of pay for white and black teachers; president of the Columbia branch of the N.A.A.C.P.; born in Cokesbury, S.C.; graduate of Johnson C. Smith University (Charlotte, N.C.) and Payne Theological Seminary of Wilberforce University (Ohio); served as both Chairman of the Board of Victory Savings Bank and as a trustee and treasurer of Allen University.

Husband of Charity Nash Adams; father of four children, including daughter Charity Edna Early, who attained rank of Lieutenant in the WACS during World War II; Eugene A. Adams, Jr., worked for the U.S. State Dept.; Lucy Rose Adams, Ph.D., served as head of the Business Dept. at Florida A & M University; and AME Bishop John Hurst Adams (b. 1927), has served pastorates in many regions of the U.S.

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