Petition to University of South Carolina Trustees, 1878 Mar. 24.

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Petition to University of South Carolina Trustees, 1878 Mar. 24.

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Petition to University of South Carolina Trustees, through Governor Wade Hampton, requesting that the Rev. Edward Cooke not be appointed as president of the South Carolina Agricultural and Mechanics' Institute; signed by twenty-four African-American state legislators. Ultimately unsuccessful, this petition cited concerns reporting that Cooke's administration at Claflin University had been unpopular, that he did not respect African-Americans as a race, and that he did not "have the interest of our youth at heart."

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Claflin College (Orangeburg, S.C.)

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Founded as Claflin University on Dec. 18, 1869 in Orangeburg, S.C. by the Freedmen's Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church; est. largely through the generosity of Boston philanthropist, the Hon. Lee Claflin and his son, Massachusetts Governor William Claflin; occupies the former site of the Orangeburg Female Seminary; in 1871 merged with Baker Biblical Institute, founded in 1866 in Charleston, S.C., and recently moved to Orangeburg, and with a training school in Camden, S.C.; from 1872 t...

South Carolina Agricultural College and Mechanics' Institute (Orangeburg, S.C.)

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South Carolina State University

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Cooke, Edward, Rev.

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