Records, 1934-1976.

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Records, 1934-1976.

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Documents the Council's efforts "to carry on ... an educational program for the improvement of educational, economic, civic, and racial conditions in the state in an endeavor to promote greater unity in South Carolina ...," and the contributions of executive directors Alice Norwood Spearman Wright, 1955-1967, Paul Matthias, 1967-1974, and Lawrence J. Toliver, 1974-1975; associate directors James Thomas McCain and Ed McSweeney; presidents Marion Wright, 1945, James McBride Dabbs, ca. 1947- 1951, Courteney Siceloff, 1958-1960, Mordecai Johnson, 1971, Theo Mitchell, 1973, and Ed Beardsley, 1974; and other staff members, including Leonidas S. James, who headed the Rural Advocacy Program, 1963- 1969, and Elizabeth Cowan Ledeen.

52.5 linear ft. (42 cartons)

University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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Wright, Marion A. (Marion Allan), 1894-1983

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South Carolina attorney who practiced law in Conway, S.C. and elsewhere; native of Marion; retired to Linville Falls, N.C., ca. 1950; died 1983; Wright was an advocate of public libraries as a tool to improve literacy during the 1930s and 1940s. From the description of Marion A. Wright papers, 1936-1982. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 30679833 Marion Allan Wright (1894-1983) of South Carolina was an attorney, author, member of the board of directors of t...

Mitchell, Theodore B.

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Theodore B. Mitchell was born on October 26, 1890, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He attended Massachusetts Agricultural College (now University of Massachusetts, Amherst), from which he graduated with a B.S. degree in 1920. He also served in the U.S. Army as a Band Sargeant, spending one year in France during World War I. Mitchell was employed by the North Carolina Department of Agriculture in 1920 as an Assistant Entomologist. In that capacity he conducted extensive field surveys, a...

Toliver, Lawrence J.

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James, Leonidas S., 1892-1973.

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Beardsley, Edward A.

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Matthias, Paul W.

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Wright, Alice Norwood Spearman, 1902-1989

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South Carolina Council on Human Relations

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Created, 1957, as affiliate of South Carolina Division of Southern Regional Council (formerly South Carolina Committee on Interracial Cooperation, founded 1919); independent organization from 1963; renamed South Carolina Council for Human Rights, 1973; dissolved, 1975; headquartered in Columbia, with local affiliates throughout the state, including student council for college students, established in 1960. From the description of Records, 1934-1976. (University of South Carolina). Wo...

Leeden, Elizabeth Cowan, d. 1969.

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McCain, James Thomas, b. 1905.

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Mcsweeney, Edward A.

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Dabbs, James McBride, 1896-1970

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James McBride Dabbs (1896-1970) was a professor of English at the University of South Carolina and Coker College, Presbyterian churchman, writer, civil rights leader, Penn School Community Services trustee, Southern Regional Council president, and farmer of Mayesville, S.C. He also worked with the South Carolina Council on Human Relations, the Fellowship of Southern Churchmen, the Committee of Southern Churchmen, the Council on Church and Society, and the Delta Ministry. From the des...

Johnson, Mordecai W.

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African American minister and educator; president of Howard University (1926-1960). From the description of Papers, 1913-1976. (Moorland-Spingarn Resource Center). WorldCat record id: 70941398 1890 January 12 Born to Carolyn Freeman and Wyatt Johnson in Paris, Tennessee 1911 Received Bachelor of Arts degree from Atlanta Baptist [later Morehous...