Records, 1957-1968.

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United States Commission on Civil Rights. South Carolina Advisory Committee. Records, 1957-1968.

Records, 1957-1968.

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Consisting of letters from committee secretary Courtney Siceloff, activist Marion A. Wright, Sumter attorney Ira Kaye, Commission Field Services Division director Samuel J. Simmons, Clarendon County education superintendent L.B. McCord, and committee chairman E.R. McIver; includes memoranda, minutes, reports, affidavits, speeches, agendas, and news clippings. Items document committee's ties with Washington office, correspondence with four S.C. governors, committee meetings, impact of the 1964 Civil Rights bill, and school desegregation; reports and publications include "Survey of Discrimination in Hospitals and Health Facilities in Charleston County...1961 to...1962," a study conducted by a sub-committee chaired by Dr. T.C. McFall of Charleston. Lists and resolutions, 1963, re "South Carolinian Cities Meet the Challenge," re biracial cooperation in Greenwood, Anderson, Greenville, Spartanburg, Florence, Newberry, Charleston, Sumter, Columbia, and Beaufort; staff paper, Mar. 1966, "Federal Rights under School Desegregation Law"; listing, Mar. 1966, of "Acceptable Court Orders and Voluntary Desegregation Plans for Public School Systems in South Carolina." Form letter, 1 Apr. 1966, to parents from the Horry County Department of Education, re the desegregation plan adopted by that system; miscellaneous publications from the Southern Regional Council, including 1962 report, "Study of Negro Farmers in South Carolina"; Tuskeegee Institute report, Race Relations in the South-- 1963; and commission's 1965 report, "The Voting Rights Act: the First Months." Contains 3 Library of Congress reports, 1958-1959, re race provisions in S.C. constitution and statutes; an annotated copy of "With Liberty and Justice for All: An Abridgment of the Report of the United States Commission on Civil Rights," 1959, along with other commission reports; Also includes "School Desegregation in South Carolina," 1966, by M. Hayes Mizell of the South Carolina Community Program of the American Friends Service Committee; and "Clemson University Extension Service: Some Notes and Statistics Relating to Negro Participation," issued by Penn Community Services, Jan. 1967

1.25 linear ft. (1 carton)

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