Joseph A. DeLaine papers, 1918-2000 (bulk, 1942-1974)

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DeLaine, Joseph A. (Joseph Armstrong), 1898-1974. Joseph A. DeLaine papers, 1918-2000 (bulk, 1942-1974)

Joseph A. DeLaine papers, 1918-2000 (bulk, 1942-1974)

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Correspondence, speeches, booklets, FBI file, 80 photographs, and 2 volumes of newspaper clippings re Briggs v. Elliott and other efforts to secure voting rights and educational opportunities for African Americans; correspondents include J. Waties Waring, John H. McCray, Rev. E.E. Richburg, Harold R. Boulware, Richard Kluger, and J. Edgar Hoover; papers include letter, 6 July 1946, Jessie J. Pearson, et al, to W. A. Schiffley, Dept. of Education, re G.I Bill for training black veterans. Letter, 5 Feb. 1948, DeLaine to James M. Hinton, Pres., State NAACP, re law suits for bus transportation of high school students [Levi Pearson v. County Board of Education, Briggs v. Elliot, 1954, and others]; 5 Mar. 1948, to Hinton, re voter registration difficulties against blacks in Clarendon County; 6 Mar. 1948, to Harold R. Boulware, Columbia, re plan for black voter registration. Letters, 24 Aug. 1973, to Miss [Alice] Potter, Sumter Daily Item, re 1955 burning of St. James A.M.E. Church in Lake City; circular letter to NAACP branch officers, 28 May 1948, from J.M. Hinton, Negro Citizen's Committee of South Carolina, re need to inform black community to refuse to take oath favoring religious and educational separation of the races; pamphlet, 1950, "An Open Letter: Summary of Incidents in Summerton School Affair." Ca. 80 letters, 1950-1973, sent by Delaine to J. Edgar Hoover at FBI discuss harrasement he endured and shooting incident that prompted his flight to New York; letter, 22 Oct. 1955, from Sol Berkowitz, [New York], re his empathy as a Jew with discrimination suffered by African Americans; pamphlet, 1956, "Clarendon County School Desegregation Case." Letter, 13 May 1964, Cincinnati, DeLaine to Rev. I. DeQuincey Newman, Charleston, re continuing his residence in Ohio; 25 June 1968, Charleston, John L. Chisholm to Gov. Robert McNair, requesting fugitive charges against Delaine be dropped so he could return to S.C.; and address delivered by Delaine at the American hotel in New York City, 17 May 1974, "History leading up to the U.S. Supreme Court's Decision outlawing Segregation in Public Schools". Bound volumes include scrapbook, 1943-1971 [original and photocopy], newspaper clippings re civil rights activism, voting in Democratic party primary, court cases, flight from South Carolina, attempts to extradite him from New York, career as minister, and efforts in 1971 to have charges dropped against him in South Carolina; and volume, 1967-1969, containing photocopied articles (incomplete) of "Our Part in a Revolution," DeLaine's autobiography serialized in the AME Christian Recorder. Photographs include images of the Clarendon County school desegregation effort of the early 1950s, including NAACP officers, Liberty Hill A.M.E. Church, Scott's Branch School, Summerton, the Rev. J.A. DeLaine, and Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Lemon.

1.25 linear ft.

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