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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

Description:: This digital collection consists of reports relating to implementation of school desegregation that were sent to M. Hayes Mizell in his role with the American Friends Service Committee, his own speeches and writings, and photographs.
Date of Original:: 1950/2024
Contributing Institution:: South Caroliniana Library
University of South Carolina. Libraries

Description:: The Atlanta Urban League (AUL) was established in 1920 as an affiliate of the National Urban League. The AUL served as an organization dedicated to addressing the social and economic concerns of African Americans in the city of Atlanta.
Date of Original:: 1948/1964
Contributing Institution:: Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library

Description:: Collection documenting the civil rights activism of Marian Bruce Logan.
Date of Original:: 1945/1989
Contributing Institution:: South Caroliniana Library

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.
Date of Original:: 1930/1975
Contributing Institution:: University of South Carolina. Libraries
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University of South Carolina Libraries does not promote or endorse these slurs, but instead looks to provide unedited historical documents about the civil rights movement in South Carolina.

Description:: Correspondence, published literature, and notes dating from 1919 to 1938 related to the Women of the Ku Klux Klan
Date of Original:: 1919/1938
Contributing Institution:: John Davis Williams Library. Department of Archives and Special Collections

Description:: Documents from the Papers of Solomon Blatt, Sr. at South Carolina Political Collections.
Date of Original:: 1916/1986
Contributing Institution:: South Caroliniana Library

Description:: Documents relating to the 1938 U.S. Supreme Court case, State of Missouri ex rel Gaines v. Canada, which paved the way for a series of cases that would lead to Brown v. Board of Education's outlawing segregation in public education.
Date of Original:: 1911/2006
Contributing Institution:: University of Missouri--Columbia. School of Law. Library

Description:: The I.S. Leevy collection contains a biography, newspaper clippings, personal correspondence and ephemera, and multiple school notebooks from Isaac Samuel Leevy’s time at Hampton Institute (Hampton Junior School) in Hampton, Virginia.
Date of Original:: 1905/1973
Contributing Institution:: South Caroliniana Library
University of South Carolina. Libraries

Description:: Documents from the Papers of Robert E. McNair at South Carolina Political Collections
Date of Original:: 1905/1989
Contributing Institution:: South Caroliniana Library

Description:: Items related to John H. Wheeler, who was heavily involved in politics and education through various positions within the federal government and on various boards of trustees for institutions like Morehouse College, Atlanta University, Lincoln Hospital, and the National Scholarship Service for Negro Students.
Date of Original:: 1895/1973
Contributing Institution:: Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library

Description:: The Cullen Jackman Memorial Collection, dating from 1881-1995 documents the artistic and creative nature of those of African descent.
Date of Original:: 1881/1995
Contributing Institution:: Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library

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