A letter from Mamie Fields requesting funds to go toward the club's annual budget. On the back of the letter are handwritten notes about race relations on a global scale, including in South Africa.
Agenda for the Second Annual Joint District Meeting of the South Carolina Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, held on January 28, 1961 at the Wilkinson Home for Girls in Cayce, South Carolina.
Page from The Palmettoan, Volume 2, Issue 2 from October 1964. The page includes the President's Message from State President Fannie Spotts Ivey and a list of commitee chairmen and other official leaders.
A letter from Mayor J. Palmer Gaillard to Mamie Fields, thanking her for letter as Chairman of the Charleston Federation of Women's and Girls' Clubs, endorsing the erection of a civic auditorium. The auditorium would later be named for the mayor, now called the Gaillard Center.
Letter from Robert Lee Sigmon to Mamie Fields about visiting on behalf of the Voluntary International Service Assignment program of the American Friends Service Committee. At the bottom of the letter, Fields write back to Sigmon.
Letter from Clifford Sanford, of The Group Child Care Project at the University of North Carolina, to Mamie Fields, about who to ask about finding a new director for the Wilkinson Home for Girls.
Letter from Mamie Fields to someone named Lynn about the community work she was trying to do and how it overlapped with the Home's mission. Fields also discusses claims Lynn made about Fields's inability to run the home.
A photo of Mamie Fields, Ethel Murray, and Hattie Holmes at the Jack Tar Hotel during the regional convention in 1967. The photo was tken by Nat Purefoy Photography and has a caption on the back that reads "Came home and founded the Charleston Clean-up Program."
A letter from Mamie Fields to club members talking about a recent broadcast news feature on their city beautification work. The Azalea Trail is mentioned, as is organizing a day care center in south Charleston.
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