This interview with Dr. Carlton Wilson highlights his experiences as a child chosen to help desegregate public schools in Warrenton, North Carolina during the Civil Rights Movement. In addition to looking at the effects of this school integration on the people of Warrenton, Dr. Wilson provides detailed examples of some of the challenges he and his peers faced as children directly involved in the integration movement. The interview was done in conjunction with the “Somebody Had To Do It" project which is designed as a multi-disciplinary study to identify, locate, interview and acknowledge African American “first children" who desegregated America’s schools. Serving as one of those “first children," Dr. Wilson recounts the dynamics of school desegregation in Warrenton at that time.
This interview with Lucy Brenda Patterson Frinks details her experience as one of the ten Black students in the second year of integration at Abbeville High School, in Abbeville, South Carolina. The interview was done in conjunction with the "Somebody Had To Do It" project which is designed as a multi-disciplinary study to identify, locate, interview and acknowledge African American "first children" who desegregated America's schools. Mrs. Frinks gives insight into the experience at the school when most of the ten African Americans at the newly integrated school were her family members; relationships with her teachers/administrators; and post mass-integration relations at the school.
This interview with Mrs. Arlonial DeLaine Bradford details many of her experiences growing up and raising children during integration in the south. As the niece of civil rights icon, Reverend Joseph A. DeLaine, Mrs. Bradford gives firsthand and intimate accounts of his successes and struggles throughout the school desegregation movement. Mrs. Bradford also explores her children's experience being the first to integrate Anderson Elementary in Kingstree, South Carolina. The interview was done in conjunction with the "Somebody Had To Do It" project which is designed as a multi-disciplinary study to identify, locate, interview and acknowledge African American "first children" who desegregated America's schools.
In this interview, Emma Harvin details her experience being among the group of students to mass integrate Edmunds High School (currently Sumter High School) of Sumter, SC in 1971. The interview was completed in conjunction with the Somebody Had To Do It project which is designed as a multi-disciplinary study to identify, locate, interview and acknowledge African American "first children" who desegregated America's schools.
In this oral history interview, Hull Franklin of Marks, Mississippi offers historian and civil rights legend Constance Curry his story on the integration of Marks High School in Quitman County Mississippi. He details his experiences being the first African American to attend the school, his life after graduating, and his views of those who he attended the school with and are currently living in Marks with him. The interview was done in conjunction with the “Somebody Had To Do It" project which is designed as a multi-disciplinary study to identify, locate, interview and acknowledge African American “first children" who desegregated America’s schools.
Oral history interview of Theodore Adams regarding his efforts in desegregating Orangeburg High School in 1964. Interview was completed for the Somebody Had To Do It project initiated by the African American Education and Research Organization
During this interview, Gloria Carter gives a detailed account of her experience with desegregating Drew High School in Sunflower County, Mississippi. Gloria is one of the eight children of Mae Bertha Carter who initiated the integration process in the town during the 1965 school year. The interview was done in conjunction with the “Somebody Had To Do It" project which is designed as a multi-disciplinary study to identify, locate, interview and acknowledge African American “first children" who desegregated America’s schools.
Event program entitled, "Esau Jenkins…His Legacy," co-produced by the Caw Caw Interpretive Center and the Jenkins Family, sponsored by the Charleston County Park and Recreation Commission.
Multiple views of an open-toed infant shoe with characteristics of a sandal made of sweetgrass and pine straw, sewn with palmetto leaf. The bow is made of sweetgrass.
Pyrographic image of a woman carrying a basket of fruit and a child. Reads "Mama Salone," an affectionate term sometimes used in place of "Sierra Leone." Origin Freetown.
Multiple views of a circular, flat sweetgrass basket with a handle made of pine needles wrapped in palmetto leaves; basket contains accents of pine needles throughout and artist has incorporated decorative pine knots; center of basket contains a combination of sweetgrass, pine needles, and bulrush, sewn with palmetto leaf; label on back reads "HAND MADE BY Ida Mae Bennett."
Multiple views of a hanging wall pocket made of sweetgrass and pine needles sewn with palmetto leaf; signature on bottom reads "Martha Manigault 2006."
Oval sweetgrass basket with seven sets of pine knots (called "love knots") which are visible only from the outside; basket is accented with rows of pine needle; also contains bulrush; sewn with palmetto leaf; bottom reads "Anne Scott 2006."
Multiple views of a sweetgrass sewing basket with handles on a pedestal base; lid has open nipple and is decorated with six pine knots; basket contains some rows of pine needles and is sewn with palmetto leaves.
Oblong basket on a pedestal base; predominantly sweetgrass with some rows of pine needle, which are mostly visible from the inside; bottom of basket reads "Henrietta Snype 2006."
Coiled decorative sweetgrass wall pocket hanging shaped like a fish with fins and a tail; oval basket attaches to center section. Made of sweetgrass and pine needle sewn with palmetto leaf.
Front and interior views of a miniature basket made of sweetgrass and pine needle sewn with palmetto leaf. Decorative version of a sewing basket with removable lid.
Multiple views of a circular all-purpose sweetgrass basket with decorative sides; contains alternating rows of pine needle and sweetgrass accented with pine knots; sewn with palmetto leaf; distinctive style is known as the "elephant ear" design.
Photocopied graphite sketch (8 1/2 x 11) of entrance gate at Charleston International Airport, signed by Simmons with "My Copy" inscribed, 9 November 2004
The Citadel Conference on "The Civil Rights Movement in South Carolina," Panel #15, Civil Rights in the Cities: Case Studies from South Carolina contribution by Millicent Brown entitled, "Wishin', Hopin', Prayin' and Votin': Black Charleston's Efforts to Merge Politics and Race, 1940-1970."
Correspondence from Bill Saunders to Frank Wooten, Associated Editor for the Post and Courier, regarding personal and professional matters. Enclosed letter to the editor regarding Stratford High School.
Publication entitled, "Caw Caw Chronicles," Volume 3, Issue 4, containing and article entitled, "He Created a Community…Caw Caw Honors the Legacy of Esau Jenkins."
Correspondence from Charles Gordon and Joenelle, CEO and President of Statewide Healthcare, to Millicent Brown wishing the recipient a happy holiday season.
Letter from Jake Thamann on behalf of Carl Westmoreland of the Freedom Center to Rossie Colter for Philip Simmons in regards to a chimney skeleton for a slave jail exhibit at the Anderson Slave Jail in Germantown, Kentucky. Drawing details size of the chimney, showing the East Elevation. Fax from Carl Westmoreland to Rossie Colter regarding telephone conversation.
Snake-shaped wrought iron art object. The eyes are painted red and there are gold painted markings on the body. Forged by Carlton Simmons, Charleston, South Carolina.
The printed program for an event celebrating the eighty-fifth annviersary of the Phyllis Wheatley and Literary and Social Club's founding. The program was held on February 9, 2001 at the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture. Cynthia McCottry-Smith provided a history of the organization and Emily R. LaPrince gave remarks.
