James T. McCain Papers, 1957-1972
This digital collection includes calendars, letters, publications, essays, speeches and other papers documenting James T. McCain’s involvement with local and national civil rights organizations. The bulk of the items evidence his interest in local issues such as illiteracy, integration of public schools, and voter turnout in South Carolina’s African American community.
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Creator
Scholarship, Education and Defense Fund for Racial Equality
McCain, James T.
The State Newspaper
War Resisters League
Moore, Ronnie M.
Congress of Racial Equality
AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education
Clarendon County Voters' League
National Sharecroppers Fund, Inc.
Wirtz, W. Willard
Southern Regional Council, Inc.
United States Commission on Civil Rights
Wiggins, Gloria L.
Wilcox, Preston R.
Arkansas State Teachers Association
Gartner, Alan
Hall, J. S., Jr.
Marlboro County
National Advisory Committee on Farm Labor
The New York Times
The Westchester Observer
Wiley, George
Wolfbein, Seymour L.
Contributor to Resource
McCain, James T.
Helena Crossing Elementary School
Roodenko, Igal
Scholarship, Education and Defense Fund for Racial Equality, Inc.
Slack-Legrande High School
Aberman, Sidney
Dixon, Elizabeth
Dorman, Elsie S.
Goldstein, Benjamin
Publisher
Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina. South Caroliniana Library
Date of Original
1955/2003
Subject
Scholarship, Education and Defense Fund for Racial Equality
African Americans--Politics and government--20th century
Voter registration--Southern States
African Americans--Suffrage
African Americans--Civil rights
African Americans--Suffrage--Southern States
Congress of Racial Equality
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Voter Education Project (Southern Regional Council)
Civil rights demonstrations
United States. Manpower Development and Training Act of 1962
Adult education--South Carolina--Columbia
Civil rights demonstrations--Southern States
Occupational training--South Carolina--Columbia
Voting registers
AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education
African Methodist Episcopal Church
Morris College (Sumter, S.C.)
Teachers--In-service training
African American leadership
Freedom Rides, 1961
Greenville County (S.C.)
National Education Association of the United States
People
McCain, James T.
Farmer, James, 1920-1999. James Farmer, civil rights leader
Wiley, George A.
Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972
Clyburn, James
Gartner, Alan
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
McDonald, Jimmy
McMain, James T.
Mizell, M. Hayes
Rachlin, Carl
Boulware, Harold R., 1913-1983
Bradley, Jim
Brown, Benjamin, 1945-1967
Brown, James, 1933-2006
Carlson, David B.
Clark, Robert George, 1929-
Debrah, Ebenezer Moses
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963
Fauntroy, Walter E.
Gregory, Dick
Location
United States, New York, New York County, New York, 40.7142691, -74.0059729
United States, South Carolina, 34.00043, -81.00009
United States, South Carolina, Sumter County, 33.91617, -80.38232
Medium
documents (object genre)
newspaper clippings
pamphlets
correspondence
books
calendars (documents)
fliers (printed matter)
brochures
cards (information artifacts)
programs (documents)
leaflets (printed works)
articles
minutes (administrative records)
notebooks
photographs
ballots
booklets
ephemera (general object genre)
newsletters
notecards
Type
StillImage, Text
Description
Born in Sumter, South Carolina in 1905, James T. McCain graduated from Morris College, a historically black college in Sumter, and earned his Masters of Education from Temple University in 1940. He returned to South Carolina and served as a teacher and principal at schools around the state, before being barred from teaching in the state of South Carolina in 1955 for refusing to disavow his affiliation with the NAACP. Two years later he would begin his work with the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). Founded in Chicago in 1942, CORE had become one of the leading national organizations dedicated to the struggle for civil rights for African Americans by the late 1950s. Key to its expanded activities in the south and subsequent continued national prominence was the hire of James T. McCain as Field Organizer in 1957 (the position would be renamed Field Secretary to the National Office the following year), and McCain’s assignment as Director of the Department of Organization in 1962. Between 1957 and 1971, while working directly for CORE, and after 1966, with the CORE-affiliated Scholarship, Education, and Defense Fund for Racial Equality (SEDFRE), McCain recorded his daily activities in eighteen calendars and associated notebooks, which are now housed at the South Caroliniana Library., In addition to these calendars, this digital collection includes letters, publications, essays, speeches and other papers documenting McCain’s involvement with local and national civil rights organizations. The bulk of the items evidence his interest in local issues such as illiteracy, integration of public schools, and voter turnout in South Carolina’s African American community.
Language
eng
Contributing Institution
South Caroliniana Library
University of South Carolina. Libraries
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