ACTION, VISTA Division Region IV Memorandum from James D. Lay, Chief of Resource Development and Training, and B. I. Cheney, Jr., Acting Regional Director, to VISTA Supervisors.
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.
Voter Education Newsletter entitled, "V.E.P. News," Volume 1, Number 7, discussing various news items relating to voting rights as pertaining to African American voters and political candidates.
Correspondence from Charles J. Baron and Frank E. Williams, Deputy Director for Programs and Training and Regional Director for ACTION - Region IV respectively, to all VISTA sponsors regarding revised instructions for re-enrollment and extension of VISTA volunteers.
Cator Sparks (pronouns: he/him), white board president of LGBTQ youth organization We Are Family, discusses his life as a gay man and his volunteer and professional work. He describes growing up in a liberal family in Atlanta, Georgia, and his difficulties and successes in high school. Sparks attended the College of Charleston in the early 1990s and speaks of coming out in Charleston into an exciting and accepting environment, then detailing his experiences in the rave scene. Along with rave venues, he describes gay bars including Treehouse, A.C.'s, and The Arcade. He discusses his volunteer work with neighborhood associations in the Cannonborough-Elliotborough neighborhood in Charleston and Harlem in New York City. Sparks performed in drag in Atlanta as Spectra Gramm, one of his performances during the Olympics being televised in France, where he soon went to study abroad. Back in Atlanta, he enrolled in American College, finishing his degree in fashion marketing in London. It was there he discovered dandyism, and he speaks of his conversion to it from rave fashion, defining what dandyism means to him, the effect it had on his life, and how it can educate others. He emphasizes how he values working with LGBTQ youth and his experiences volunteering with the Harvey Milk High School in New York City and with We Are Family in Charleston. Sparks describes the impact the 2016 Presidential election had on him, prompting his social action and recaps his professional life, including a description of working in Jeffrey, a high-end New York shoe store started by Jeffrey Kalinksy of Charleston, his freelance writing and his future plans of becoming a life coach. Photograph credited to Carolina Knopf.
(Side 1) Original graphite sketching on drafting paper of column placement as it relates to house and driveway, (8 1/2 x 11). (Side 2) Graphite sketching of proposed entrance gate (120" x. 42").
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 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.
Correspondence from Mark J. Corey to Alan P. Weiner, Grants Management Officer for the Office of Fiscal Operations for the Department of Health and Human Services regarding financial matters.
Correspondence from Kathaleen Carpenter, Teen-Age Program Staff, Division of Community Y.W.C.A.'s to Amanda Keith, Teen-Age Program Director, regarding Round Table plans for the fall of 1949.
Correspondence from Fred W. Harris, Jr. and Paul T. Collier, the Regional Attorney and Acting Regional Attorney for the United States Department of Agriculture, to Paul R. Kugler, Assistant Administrator for the United States Department of Agriculture regarding COBRA Farmers Home Administration Applicant Organizational Documents.
Correspondence from John S. Hurt and B. I. Cheney, Jr., Action/VISTA Program Officer for South Carolina and Acting Regional Director respectively, to Bernice Robinson regarding early 1972 project review board.
Correspondence from William Saunders, Executive Director for COBRA, to Charles F. McMillan, Atlanta Regional Director for the Minority Business Development Agency, regarding COBRA matters.
Correspondence from Mark J. Corey, Certified Public Accountant, to Allan Weimer, Grants Management Officer for the Office of Fiscal Operations Department of Health and Human Services, regarding the status of an "investigation of unemployment taxes charged to the Headstart program in program."
Correspondence from Dwight C. James, 1st Vice President of the Charleston Branch of the NAACP, to Audrey C. Fisher-Brown, Education Specialist of the Southeast Region of the NAACP, regarding educational issues in the Lowcountry.
Correspondence from Mary E. King, Communications for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, to James Hornaday of Presbyterian Life for the purpose of of reserving advertising space.
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.
Correspondence from James Hornaday of Presbyterian Life to Mary E. King, Communications for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, for the purpose of of reserving advertising space with enclosed rates sheet and related materials.
Correspondence from Rose E. Huggins to Virginia L. Heim, Executive of the Southern Business and Professional Summer Conference, regarding the Professional Conference at Camp Chelan, Sellersburg, Indiana in June 5-11, 1949.
