Correspondence from Christine O. Jackson, Director for the Coming Street Y.W.C.A., to Russell H. James, Director for the Southeast District of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, regarding the "special school milk program."
Correspondence from Christine O. Jackson to Eileen Muir, Correlator for the Southern Region of the National Board of the Y.W.C.A., regarding recommended personnel.
Correspondence from Jane Cornell, Administrative Officer for VISTA, to James Clyburn, Executive Director for the South Carolina Commission for Farm Workers, regarding VISTA grant application details.
Correspondence from James T. Coats, Regional Representative of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare Social Security Administration, to Esau Jenkins regarding the Thrift Honor Award for 1969.
Handwritten correspondence from Joe Daley of the VISTA Training Center to Bernice Robinson, thanking the recipient and other South Carolina Commission for Farm Workers staff for their help in a recent training cycle.
Memorandum regarding APRI financial crisis from an Ad Hoc Committee meeting on December 18, 1976 of APRI members from Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, and South Carolina.
Correspondence from William Saunders, Executive Director for COBRA, to the United States Department of Agriculture regarding the COBRA applicant certificate of incorporation.
Correspondence from Brian Dinsmoor, Vice President of Amoco, to Dwight James, President of the Charleston Branch of the NAACP, regarding minority business.
Ron Plunkett discusses his experience as an Irish-American in the South. His Irish family background is largely derived from County Meath, County Louth, and County Dublin, and the first ancestor of his to come to the States was Captain Peter Plunkett, who arrived in Virginia around 1690. Ron was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. His background is Welsh, German, and French Huguenot, as well as Irish. Ron was raised in the Episcopal Church. Of anti-Irish or anti-Catholic sentiment, he states that he feels such discrimination or prejudice wasn’t a part of his experience in Atlanta, and that religious or ethnic background didn’t seem to be as big of a deal as it might have been in other places. He also discusses his time in the service during the Korean War. He first visited Ireland in the seventies on business and returned several times through his job with Sealand/Maersk Line, speaking of his experience as a visitor in the best of terms. He is a member of the Hibernian Society of Charleston and the St. David’s Society, a Welsh organization. To him, being of Irish descent in America is about celebrating one’s heritage and knowing one’s history, to share pride in the contributions of one’s ancestors.