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Collection
Fairfield high school oral history collection

Description:
Interviews with the students and teachers of the segregated African-American high school in rural Fairfield County, South Carolina, which help to shed light not just on the experience of race and exclusion, but also on the texture of daily life in one of these caring communities.
Date of Original:
2017-10-26
Contributing Institution:
South Caroliniana Library

2.
Collection
Tom Crosby’s Rosenwald School oral history collection, 2006-2011

Description:
The Rosenwald Schools of South Carolina exhibit features as its center the forty-three oral history interviews forming the Tom Crosby Oral History Collection that describe the educational experiences of African Americans in South Carolina 1910s-1970s, most of whom attended Rosenwald schools and/or Allen University.
Date of Original:
2006/2011
Contributing Institution:
South Caroliniana Library

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Collection
Civil rights films from USC's moving image research collections

Description:
This curated collection brings together diverse archival footage from the University of South Carolina's Moving Image Research Collections (MIRC) documenting the Civil Rights movement, and the long struggle for equality and social justice in South Carolina and beyond.
Date of Original:
1955/1975
Contributing Institution:
University of South Carolina. Moving Image Research Collections
University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

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Collection
James T. McCain Papers, 1957-1972

Description:
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.
Date of Original:
1955/2003
Contributing Institution:
South Caroliniana Library
University of South Carolina. Libraries

10.
Collection
Local television newsfilm collections

Description:
The Local Television News Collections at Moving Image Research Collections (MIRC) comprise approximately 1.5 million feet of 16mm motion picture film outtakes dating from the late 1950s to the early 1980s, donated by several South Carolina television stations. These outtakes document over two decades of local people and events, as well as reportage surrounding significant moments in national and world news throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Paper holdings include teleprompter scripts from 1963 through 1979.
Date of Original:
1955/1980
Contributing Institution:
South Caroliniana Library

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Collection
Southern school news

Description:
Southern School News is the official publication of the Southern Education Reporting Service, an objective, fact-finding agency established by southern newspaper editors and educators with the aim of providing accurate, unbiased information to school administrators, public officials and interested lay citizens on developments in education arising from the U.S. Supreme Court opinion of May 17, 1954 declaring segregation in the schools unconstitutional.
Date of Original:
1954/1965
Contributing Institution:
University of Georgia. Libraries