Transcript and videorecordings of the South Carolina Voices of the Civil Rights Movement Conference, 1982.

Reagon, Bernice Johnson, 1942-

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Born on October 4, 1942, Bernice Johnson Reagon grew up in Albany, Georgia, where she became involved in the civil rights movement. As a student at Albany State College in 1961, Reagon was arrested for participating in a SNCC demonstration. She spent the night in jail singing songs and after her arrest joined the SNCC Freedom Singers to use music as a tool for civic action. Reagon earned her B.A. in history from Spelman College in 1970. In 1973, she founded Sweet Honey in the Rock, an award-winn...

Clark, Septima Poinsette, 1898-1987

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Septima Poinsette Clark was born in Charleston, S.C. on 3 May 1898, the daughter of Peter Poinsette, who grew up a slave on the plantation of Joel Roberts Poinsett (with conflicting data saying he came on the ship the Wanderer), and Victoria Anderson who grew up mostly in Haiti. The family lived on Henrietta Street; Clark attended small private schools and Avery Institute, getting a teacher's certificate in 1916. Laws did not allow blacks to teach in black city schools, so Clark ta...

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Organizational History and List of Officers Organizational History 1909 Issued the “Call,” a statement calling for a conference to protest discrimination and violence against African Americans Convened the National Negro Conference on May 31 and June 1, New York, N.Y. E...

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...

Clyburn, James, 1940-

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James Enos Clyburn (born July 21, 1940) is an American politician and a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from South Carolina. He has served as House Majority Whip since 2019. He is a two-time Majority Whip, having previously served in the post from 2007 to 2011, and served as House Assistant Minority Leader from 2011 to 2019. Currently in his 15th term as a congressman, Clyburn has served as U.S. Representative for South Carolina's 6th congressional district since 1993. ...

Hunt, Eugene C.

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Doster, Lillie.

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Clement, Arthur J.

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Waring, Julius Waties, 1880-1968

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Judge. From the description of Reminiscences of Julius Waties Waring : oral history, 1957. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309728157 Federal judge, lawyer, and civil rights advocate; of Charleston, S.C. From the description of Letter, 1921 May 24, Charleston, S.C., to Julian Mitchell, Charleston, S.C. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 54862038 From the description of Letter, 1935 Apr. 27, Charleston, S...

Moultrie, Mary Dunlop, 1837-1866

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Palmetto Education Association

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Carawan, Guy, 1927-2015

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Guy Carawan (1927-2015) was a musician and songwriter. He is credited, along with Zilphia Horton, Frank Hamilton, and Pete Seeger, as one of the authors of the civil rights anthem, We Shall Overcome....

South Carolina Voices of the Civil Rights Movement Conference (1982 : Charleston, S.C.)

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Conference on the history of the civil rights movement in South Carolina. Sponsored by the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture, the conference was held November 5-6, 1982, at the Charleston Museum (Charleston, S.C.). From the description of Transcript and videorecordings of the South Carolina Voices of the Civil Rights Movement Conference, 1982. (College of Charleston). WorldCat record id: 31734931 ...

Tomlin, Elaine.

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Drago, Edmund L

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Scholar, author and College of Charleston history professor Edmund Lee Drago was born in Chicago, Illinois. He received his BA from the University of Santa Clara in 1964 and his MA in History from the University of California, Berkeley in 1966. He served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War from 1969-1972 and completed his Ph. D. in History at the University of California at Berkeley in 1975. He began his teaching career at the College of Charleston in 1975. Drago is the author of Initiative,...

Fink, Leon, 1948-

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Whipper, Lucille S.

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Academic administrator and state government administrator Lucille Simmons Whipper was born on June 6, 1928 in Charleston, South Carolina, to Sarah and Joseph Simmons. In 1944, Whipper was a student activist at her high school, Avery Institute, in Charleston, South Carolina; her graduating class sought to desegregate the College of Charleston. While a student at Talladega College, where she received her B.A. degree in economics and sociology, Whipper became involved in a movement to integrate col...