New Insights in the American Civil Rights Movement: South Carolina Council on Human Relations Records
South Carolina Council on Human Relations (SCCHR) played a key role in fostering better living and social conditions for African Americans and promoting racial harmony within South Carolina and the South generally. Its archives document the movement for civil rights within South Carolina during the twentieth century.
Sensitive Content
This collection contains a great deal of historical information, and in some documents you will find racial slurs. The University of South Carolina Libraries does not promote or endorse these slurs, but instead looks to provide unedited historical documents about the civil rights movement in South Carolina.
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Creator
South Carolina Council on Human Relations
South Carolina Council for Human Rights
Contributor to Resource
South Carolina Council on Human Relations, South Carolina Council for Human Rights
Publisher
Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina. South Caroliniana Library
Date of Original
1930/1975
Subject
Civil rights--South Carolina
African Americans--Civil rights
Civil rights workers
South Carolina Council on Human Relations
Race relations
South Carolina--Race relations
Southern Regional Council
Civil rights--America
African American civil rights workers
African Americans--Civil rights--Southern States
South Carolina
South Carolina Council for Human Rights
Women civil rights workers
African Americans--South Carolina
African Americans--Segregation--South Carolina
Segregation in education--Law and legislation--United States
African Americans--Segregation
Educational equalization--United States
Segregation in education--United States
Human rights advocacy--United States
People
Wright, Alice Norwood Spearman, 1902-1989
McCain, James T.
Location
United States, South Carolina, 34.00043, -81.00009
Medium
correspondence
documents (object genre)
memorandums
notes (documents)
lists (document genres)
reports
postcards
articles
programs (documents)
agendas (administrative records)
essays
newspaper clippings
fliers
minutes (administrative records)
pamphlets
forms (documents)
proposals
announcements
invitations
questionnaires
résumés (personnel records)
telegrams
speeches (compositions)
blank forms
newsletters
envelopes
Type
StillImage, Text
Description
South Carolina Council on Human Relations (SCCHR) played a key role in fostering better living and social conditions for African Americans and promoting racial harmony within South Carolina and the South generally. Its archives document the movement for civil rights within South Carolina during the twentieth century. The digitization and description of these materials has been made possible via grant funding from the Council on Library and Information Resources, for their Hidden Collections grant cycle 2020-2023. We appreciate their funding of this nationally important digital collection., The Council’s history dates to the formation in 1919 of the South Carolina Committee on Interracial Cooperation. This committee later became the South Carolina Division of the Southern Regional Council (SRC), a national organization formed to promote civil rights. The South Carolina Council on Human Relations was formed in 1957 as an affiliate of the SRC. As did its predecessor organizations, the Council evolved over time, responding to changes in South Carolina society and the perception by Council’s leadership of its role and mission.
Language
eng
Contributing Institution
University of South Carolina. Libraries
Rights
Sensitive Content
This collection contains a great deal of historical information, and in some documents you will find racial slurs. The University of South Carolina Libraries does not promote or endorse these slurs, but instead looks to provide unedited historical documents about the civil rights movement in South Carolina.
