A.C. Flora papers, [1910]-1970.

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A.C. Flora papers, [1910]-1970.

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Consisting of letters, speeches, school board reports, news clippings, photographs, and short published writings re life and work of educator A.C. Flora, whose career as a teacher, principal, and administrator in South Carolina lasted from 1913, when he taught for a year in Union, to 1951, when he retired as superintendent of Columbia city schools. Items document his tenure as principal of Logan Grammar School (1914-1917) and Columbia High School (1917-1928); leadership in professional educational organizations, chiefly the S.C. Teachers' Association, the S.C. Superintendents' Association, and National Education Association, on whose board of trustees he served as chairman, presiding over dedicating the new Headquarters Building in Washington, D.C., 8 Feb. 1959. Other organizations represented in the collection are the Columbia Planning Commission, Columbia Stage Society, Central S.C. Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America, Juvenile Protective League of Columbia, and Kiwanis Club of Columbia. Items include outline of supervisory program for Negro Schools of Columbia (9 Feb. 1931) by C.A. Johnson, supervisor of Columbia Negro Schools; notebook (1932) re Columbia Community Chest; U.S. Senate pass (25 Jan. 1932) signed by James F. Byrnes; copy of "Report of the South Carolina Education Commission Appointed by Governor Ibra C. Blackwood" (1934); correspondence, 1946, re equalization of black and white teachers' salaries; and Kosmos Club papers, including "History of School Board of City, 1882-1957." Correspondents: Jesse T. Anderson, Havilah Babcock, Lester L. Bates, F.W. Bradley, Cyril B. Busbee, James F. Byrnes, E.R. Crow, Harry E. Davis, E.S. Dreher, J. Heyward Gibbes, Wil Lou Gray, James H. Hammond, W.H. Hand, James M. Hinton, Olin D. Johnston, Thomas F. Jones, J. Rion McKissick, Richard I. Manning, William D. Melton, Frances Perkins, William Lyon Phelps, Edwin G. Seibels, Robert L. Sumwalt, John E. Swearingen, Guy L. Varn, Patterson Wardlaw, J. Waties Waring, W.D. Weatherford, and John C. West.

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University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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Juvenile Protective League of Columbia.

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Hammond, James H. (James Henry), 1885-1970

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City of Columbia Planning Commission

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McKissick, J. Rion (James Rion), 1884-1944

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Boy Scouts of America. Central South Carolina Area Council.

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Bates, Lester L., 1905-

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Flora, A. C. (Abram Cline)

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Educator, of Columbia, S.C.; active in many professional organizations, including National Education Association, for which he served a term as president (1942-1943); native of Virginia; born, 1885; died 1971. From the description of A.C. Flora papers, [1910]-1970. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 48404303 ...

Kiwanis Club of Columbia, South Carolina.

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Columbia Community Chest (Columbia, S.C.)

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Gray, Wil Lou, 1883-1984

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Educator and advocate for adult education; founder of South Carolina Opportunity School (West Columbia, S.C.); native of Laurens County, S.C. From the description of Wil Lou Gray papers, 1900-1976. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 43454133 ...

Byrnes, James F. (James Francis), 1882-1972

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James F. Byrnes was born on May 2, 1882, in Charleston, South Carolina, to Elizabeth McSweeney and James Byrnes. On May 2, 1906, he married Maude Busch, who was born in Aiken, SC, on October 22, 1883. Byrnes was elected Court Solicitor of the Second District in 1908; U.S. Congressman from 1911-1925; U.S. Senator from 1931-1941. He was appointed to serve as a Justice of U.S. Supreme Court 1941-1942. He also served as Director of the Office of Economic Stabilization, 1942; Director of the Office o...

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...

West, John Carl, 1922-2004

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Johnston, Olin D. (Olin Dewitt), 1896-1965

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Series documenting Johnston's interactions with the media as both candidate and incumbent during political campaigns and serivice in office. From the description of Media series, 1955-1964. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 37539301 Governor of South Carolina, 1935-1939, and 1943 until his resignation, 3 Jan. 1945; U.S. Senator from 1944 until his death in 1965. From the description of Olin D. Johnston papers, 1923-1965. (University of South Car...

Logan School (Columbia, S.C.)

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Manning, Richard Irvine, 1859-1931

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Columbia Stage Society (Columbia, S.C.)

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Columbia High School (Columbia, S.C.)

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Swearingen, John Eldred, 1875-1957

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Student and teacher at the South Carolina School for the Deaf and the Blind; blinded in a hunting accident at age 13; first honor graduate of the University of South Carolina, 1899; State Superintendant of Education, 1908-1922; John Eldred Swearingen, Jr., served as president of Standard Oil Company, ca. 1960s. From the description of John Eldred Swearingen papers, 1772-1959. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 43510558 ...