Mary Lawrence Perkins-Williams Papers, ca. 1950s-1998, undated

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Mary Lawrence Perkins-Williams Papers, ca. 1950s-1998, undated

1950-1998

https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/special/ead/findingaids/0730

Personal files created by Pitt County, North Carolina, native Mary Perkins-Williams relate to the Pitt County Black Assembly (1979, 1983), NAACP Legal Defense (1980), regional development (1977-1979), minority issues, and fair housing. Audio-Visual Materials include photographs of scrapbook images (ca. 1950s) documenting both abandoned and active Pitt County, North Carolina, African American public schools. Also included are seven videocassettes documenting a grant-funded oral history project completed in 1994 entitled Growing up African-American in Pitt County.

1.0 Cubic feet, 4 archival boxes, consisting of personal files, photographs, videocassettes, newsletters, agendas, minutes, membership lists, publications, photocopies, and clippings.

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East Carolina University. J.Y. Joyner Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 11617379

East Carolina University. J.Y. Joyner Library

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NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund

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Pitt County Black Assembly.

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Williams, Mary Lawrence Perkins.

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Mary Perkins-Williams was born in Pitt County, North Carolina, the youngest of five siblings. Her parents were Mary and the Reverend Jasper Perkins, both farmers. Perkins-Williams was a graduate of Bethel Union High School, North Carolina Central University (BS) and the University of South Carolina at Columbia (MS). She is the mother of two children, Klarissa Tyree Barnes and Eric Tyrone Williams, and grandmother of seven. She has been a member of Fleming Chapel Original Free Will Baptist Church...