Ethelyn Parker collection, 1904-1988.

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Ethelyn Parker collection, 1904-1988.

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Collection contains books, pamphlets, magazines, newsletters, programs, minutes, clippings, and miscellaneous items. Books and pamphlets cover a wide variety of topics including education, African Americans, religion, and race relations. Materials pertaining to various women's organizations include programs, typescript and handwritten minutes of meetings, financial records, and publications. Organizations include the South Carolina Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, the Woman's Baptist Educational and Missionary Convention of South Carolina, and the National Council of Negro Women. Magazines and newsletters concern African Americans and include issues of "Negro Digest" (1940-1948) and "Highlander Reports" (1956-1957). Miscellaneous items include a leather-bound program (1931) of commencement exercises at Morehouse College (Ga.), "Minutes of the Eighty-sixth Annual Session of the Baptist Educational and Missionary Convention of South Carolina" (1963), scrapbooks of clippings (1956-1987), and an autograph album (1924-1925).

6 boxes (2.5 linear ft.)

College of Charleston, Marlene and Nathan Addlestone Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7324341

College of Charleston, Marlene and Nathan Addlestone Library

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National Council of Negro Women

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The National Council of Negro Women (NANW) was founded December 5, 1935 by Mary McLeod Bethune. It grew out of the National Association of Colored Women (NACW). Bethune was an educator and the daughter of former slaves. She branched off the ideas of the NACW and began the start of the NCNW to help African American women and their families. Women on the council fought more towards political and economic successes of black women to uplift them in society. NCNW fulfills this mission through researc...

Parker, Ethelyn Murray, 1895-

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Charleston (S.C.) educator and journalist. After graduating from Avery Normal Institute (Charleston, S.C.) in 1914, Ethelyn Murray Parker held teaching positions in South Carolina and Mobile, Alabama. Parker attended Voorhees Institute in Bamberg County, S.C., and Tuskegee Institute (Tuskegee, Alabama). She later became a columnist for several African American newspapers including "The Lighthouse and Informer" (Charleston, S.C.), the "Pittsburgh Courier," and "The Charleston Chronicle." A member...

South Carolina Federation of Colored Women's Clubs

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Woman's Baptist Educational and Missionary Convention of South Carolina.

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