Esau Jenkins papers, ca. 1964-2003.

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Esau Jenkins papers, ca. 1964-2003.

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The Esau Jenkins papers are in four small series. Biographical papers include printed tributes; death notices and materials, including funeral sermons; a compact disc of images and other papers documenting lectures and exhibits re Jenkins held after his death, along with programs, correspondence and related material re: naming of buildings, services and a bridge after him. With genealogical information on Jenkins and his family. The series on his writings holds miscellaneous correspondence and notes and printed versions of his talks and writings. Information on his affiliations contains correspondence, brochures, notes, and other data on a variety of organizations he helped found or was a member of, including the Progressive Club, Citizens' Committee of Charleston, Community Organization Credit Union, Political Action Committee of Charleston County, Political Awareness League of Charleston County, and the Highlander Folks Center. Topics mentioned include the 1969 Charleston Hospital Workers' strike, and the protested death of Robert Brown, a young African American killed by a while policeman in 1970. Miscellaneous materials include photocopies of published materials documenting life on Johns Island, S.C. and Jenkins's role in citizenship schools run by the Highlander Center and funded by the Emil Schwarzhaupt Foundation.

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College of Charleston, Marlene and Nathan Addlestone Library

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College of Charleston, Marlene and Nathan Addlestone Library

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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

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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...

Jenkins, Esau, 1910-1972

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Esau Jenkins was born and raised on Johns Island, S.C. in 1910 and lived most of his life there. With very little formal education, he became a businessman and civil rights leader. Jenkins founded the Progressive Club in 1948, which encouraged local African Americans to register to vote, through the aid of Citizenship Schools, a topic he was educated in by his attendance at Highlander Folk Center in Tennessee. In 1959, he organized the Citizens' Committee of Charleston County dedicated to the ec...

Jenkins family.

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Community Organization Credit Union.

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Progressive Club (Charleston, S.C.)

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Charleston Area Community Relations Committee (Charleston, S.C.)

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Citizens' Committee of Charleston (Charleston, S.C.)

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Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.)

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Recordings (1954-1960) of folk music and of workshops on leadership, integration and voter registration conducted by the school, including a 1956 integration workshop with comments by Rosa Parks on Martin Luther King and the Montgomery bus boycott. Included are performances by Folk School students, Zilphia Horton, Pete Seeger, Guy Carawan, Jack Elliott, Frank Hamilton, and May Justus. Also, a radio interview (ca. 1960) with Septima Clark and school founder Myles Horton. From the desc...

Political Action Committee of Charleston County (Charleston County, S.C.)

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