- Collection:
- New insights in the American civil rights movement: South Carolina Council on Human Relations records
- Title:
- South Carolina Council on Human Relations, Box 1, Folder 5, Administrative, General, 14 April 1947-28 May 1947
- Creator:
- South Carolina Council on Human Relations
- Contributor to Resource:
- South Carolina Council on Human Relations
- Publisher:
- Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina. South Caroliniana Library
- Date of Original:
- 1947-04/1947-05
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
Civil rights--South Carolina
South Carolina Council on Human Relations
Southern Regional Council
South Carolina--Race relations
Race relations
Civil rights workers
African American civil rights workers - Location:
- United States, South Carolina, 34.00043, -81.00009
- Medium:
- documents (object genre)
correspondence
programs (documents) - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Folder 5 of Records of the South Carolina Council on Human Relations collection contains administrative documents and general papers from 14 April 14-May 28, 1947. Many of the documents comprise of correspondence between leadership of the South Carolina Division of the Southern Regional Council (SC Division of the SRC), like Alice Norwood Spearman Wright and James McBride Dabbs. Within this folder are several letters discussing how organization funds will be used to pay Alice Norwood Spearman Wright for her work with the SC Division of the SRC. There is a document titled, "Recommendations adopted at The Annual Meeting," that lists ways in which the State Division can improve with the proposal of new committees. This folder also contains a press release on the lynching of Willie Earle in Greenville, SC, and how the case relates to issues of African American franchise (suffrage) and treatment of African Americans by law enforcement.
- Metadata URL:
- http://cdm17173.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p17173coll43/id/1006
- IIIF manifest:
- http://cdm17173.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/2/p17173coll43:1006/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Copyright Undetermined. For further information please contact South Caroliniana Library, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208.
- Extent:
- 1 folder
- Original Collection:
- New insights in the American Civil Rights Movement: South Carolina Council on Human Relations records
South Carolina Council on Human Relations, Box 1, South Caroliniana Library - Contributing Institution:
- University of South Carolina. Libraries
- Rights:
-
