Isaiah DeQuincey Newman, (1911-1985), Papers, 1929-2003
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Creator
Newman, I. DeQuincey, 1911-1985
Contributor to Resource
University of South Carolina. Digital Collections, University of South Carolina University Libraries Digital Collections
Date of Original
1929/2003
Subject
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People--Employees
Clergy--South Carolina
African American clergy--South Carolina
Middleton-Rosemond United Methodist Church (Columbia, S.C.)
United Methodist Church (U.S.)
African American radio stations--South Carolina--Columbia
African American businesspeople--South Carolina--Columbia
Appointment books--South Carolina
African American civil rights workers--South Carolina
Civil rights workers--South Carolina
African Americans--Civil rights--South Carolina
Civil rights--South Carolina
Civil rights movements--South Carolina
Columbia (S.C.)--Race relations--History--20th century
Race relations
Race discrimination--South Carolina
Segregation--South Carolina
African Americans--Segregation--South Carolina
African American politicians--South Carolina
Letters
Speeches, addresses, etc.
Sermons--South Carolina
Photographs
Legislators--South Carolina
People
Newman, I. DeQuincey, 1911-1985
Newman, I. DeQuincey, 1911-1985--Letters
Simkins, Modjeska Monteith, 1899-1992
Middleton, Earl M., 1919-
Perry, Matthew J. (Matthew James), 1921-2011
Location
United States, South Carolina, Orangeburg County, 33.43899, -80.8003
United States, South Carolina, Orangeburg County, Orangeburg, 33.49182, -80.85565
United States, South Carolina, Richland County, Columbia, 34.00071, -81.03481
Medium
letters (correspondence)
itineraries
photographs
black-and-white photographs
texts (document genres)
appointment books
speeches
sermons
Type
Text
Description
I. DeQuincey Newman was a Methodist pastor, civil rights activist, and entrepreneur. A leading figure in the Civil Rights movement in South Carolina, he helped organize the Orangeburg branch of the NAACP in 1943, helped found the Progressive Democratic Party, and served the South Carolina NAACP as state field director from 1960 to 1969. From 1972 to 1974, he served as executive assistant to the Director of the S.C. Department of Social Services. From 1974 to 1981, he was Director of the Governor's Rural Regional Coordination Demonstration Project. In 1983, at age 72, he was elected to the South Carolina Senate, thus becoming the first African American to serve in that body since Reconstruction. Due to ill health, he resigned from the Senate in July of 1985., The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata.
Rights Holder
Copyright 2008, the University of South Carolina.
Contributing Institution
University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections
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