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Records, 1915-1935.

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Chiefly commission reports and correspondence, including "points of policy," 12 June 1919, "to work under the State Dept. of Education ... to work for such legislation as necessary ... to use all legitimate methods of arousing public interest ... to become a center for exchange of information and correlation." Papers include letters of Patterson Wardlaw, Wil Lou Gray, Mabel Montgomery, J.E. Swearingen, Mrs. J.L. Coker, S.H. Edmunds, Mrs. Walter Edward Duncan (Bessie), C.E. Burts, G.D. Brown, and W.W. Smoak. [Correspondence Out available on microfilm R518] Scrapbook volume, 1919-1935 and undated, with newspaper articles reporting the progress of adult education; transcript, c.1920, of bill to establish the commission; census card; and two promotional broadsides describing goals of the organization to stamp out iliteracy. Places represented include Columbia, Sumter, Marion, Laurens, Hartsville, and elsewhere in S.C.

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Montgomery, Mabel D.

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Mabel Montgomery (1879-1968 ) was an author from Marion County; S.C., and a member of S.C.'s first Illiteracy Commission; she also served as a supervisor of the S.C. branch of the Federal Writers' Project of the WPA (Works Progress Administration); a volunteer in numerous civic and social work activities; columnist for The State newspaper, and creator of The Marion Mail for S.C. soldiers serving in World War II; and eldest daughter of S.C. State Senator William Joseph Montgomery and Annie Jane S...

Illiteracy Commission of South Carolina.

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Wardlaw, Patterson, 1859-1948

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Edmunds, S. H.

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Duncan, Walter Edward, Mrs.

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Coker, James Lide, Mrs.

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Smoak, William Wightman, 1877-1947

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Editor, state legislator, and mayor, of Walterboro, S.C. From the description of Papers, 1895-1982. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122503078 Educator, editor, and publisher, The Press & Standard (Walterboro, S.C.); member, South Carolina House of Representatives; mayor, Walterboro, 1920-1922. From the description of William Wightman Smoak papers, 1895-1982. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 28410632 ...

Burts, C. E.

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Brown, G. D.

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Gray, Wil Lou, 1883-1984

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Educator and advocate for adult education; founder of South Carolina Opportunity School (West Columbia, S.C.); native of Laurens County, S.C. From the description of Wil Lou Gray papers, 1900-1976. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 43454133 ...

South Carolina. State Dept. of Education.

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Duncan, Walter E. 1844-1937, Mrs.

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Swearingen, John Eldred, 1875-1957

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Student and teacher at the South Carolina School for the Deaf and the Blind; blinded in a hunting accident at age 13; first honor graduate of the University of South Carolina, 1899; State Superintendant of Education, 1908-1922; John Eldred Swearingen, Jr., served as president of Standard Oil Company, ca. 1960s. From the description of John Eldred Swearingen papers, 1772-1959. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 43510558 ...