Records: Administrative files series, 1934-1975.

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Records: Administrative files series, 1934-1975.

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Consisting principally of correspondence re daily activities of the Council and its leadership, including minutes, agendas, and other records of the Council's Board of Directors and Executive Committee; records re human rights conferences and workshops, including records, 1955- 1967, re Fisk University's Institute on Race Relations; reports to the Southern Regional Council, 1957-1975, and progress reports by staff members to their supervisors; note are annual reports; financial papers; and membership lists.

18.75 linear ft. (15 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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Fisk University

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Established as Fisk Free Colored School in Nashville, Tenn., in Dec. 1865 by John Ogden, Rev. Erastus Milo Caravath, and Rev. Edward P. Smith; named in honor of Gen. Clinton B. Fisk, assistant commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau for Tennessee and Kentucky, who provided the new institution with facilities and contributed over $30,000 to the school; opened on 9 Jan. 1866 with almost two hundred students of all ages; incorporated as Fisk University on 22 Aug. 1867 after its curriculum shifted to ...

Southern Regional Council

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The Help Our Public Education (HOPE) project was established in 1958 by a group of community leaders and concerned citizens to disseminate information regarding school integration in Georgia. After the Supreme Court's school desegregation decision of 1954, HOPE anticipated that many of Georgia's public schools would close, because the state would refuse to comply. HOPE believed an informed public would take the necessary action through elected representatives to keep Georgia's public schools ope...

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...