South Carolina Conference of Branches of the NAACP memorandum from Dr. W. F. Gibson, State Conference President, to all units regarding the monthly Board of Directors' Meeting on December 11, 1982.
South Carolina Conference of Branches of the NAACP memorandum from Nelson B. Rivers, III, Executive Secretary, to all units regarding the Annual State Convention.
South Carolina Conference of Branches of the NAACP memorandum from Nelson B. Rivers, III, Executive Secretary, to all units regarding the Annual State Convention.
Correspondence from Dwight C. James, President of the Charleston Branch of the NAACP, to Reverend Joseph Bethea of United Methodist Church regarding the 1993 Annual Freedom Fund Drive.
Correspondence from William Saunders and Deborah McBeth, Executive Director and Management Officer for COBRA, to Steve White, Office of Audits for the South Carolina Department of Social Services, regarding financial matters.
Correspondence from W. E. Solomon, Executive Secretary of the Palmetto Education Association, to Septima P. Clark regarding National Education Association legal action.
Correspondence from Mark W. Andresen, Planner for the Title XX Planning Unit, to Sidney F. Thomas, Jr. for the Central Midlands Regional Planning Council regarding donations.
Correspondence from Deborah M. Southerlin, Chief of Children and Family Services Division of the State Department of Public Welfare, to Bernice Robinson regarding day care.
Job posting for the Business Development Director for NAACP Community Development Resource Centers in Texas (Austin), Virginia (Richmond), Georgia (Atlanta), North Carolina (Charlotte), and South Carolina (Columbia).
Correspondence from William Saunders, Executive Director for COBRA, to Virgil L. Conrad, Commissioner for the South Carolina Department of Social Services, regarding an audit exception for 1975 to 1976.
American Cancer Society, South Carolina Division, Inc., memorandum from James Bouleware, Chairman, to S. C. Committee on Meeting the Challenge of Cancer Among Black Americans.
Correspondence from William Saunders, Executive Director for COBRA, to Donald Tudor, Deputy Director for the Division of Economic Development and Transportation, regarding COBRA matters.
Correspondence from William F. Scott, State Coordinator for the National Consumer Information Center, regarding the National Consumer Information Center's Statewide Consumer Conference.
Correspondence from Robert E. David, Executive Director for the South Carolina Employment Security Commission, to William Saunders of the Committee for Better Racial Assurance regarding the new Computerized Applicant Screening Program.
Correspondence from Joe Collins, Jr., Public Safety Department of the College of Charleston, to James Clyburn of the State Human Affairs Commission regarding policies at the College of Charleston.
Correspondence from J. Arthur Brown to Archie C. Ellis, Director of the South Carolina Department of Social Services, regarding "racially discriminatory practices at the Gingerbread House, a Child Care and Educational Center."
Correspondence from Cleveland Sellers to John McFadden, School of Education for the University of South Carolina, regarding potential employment opportunities.
An 1828 letter from Grimke, with annotations by Alfred Huger, as chairman of the Congressional Delegation, about Grimke's refusal to be part of the committee to cast a ballot for President, not agreeing with either Andrew Jackson ("an unfit Man for the Presidency") or John Quincy Adams.
Correspondence from Isaac W. Williams, S.C. Field Director for the South Carolina Conference of Branches of the NAACP, to Delbert Woods, regarding a "year-end statewide thrust for memberships."
Correspondence from Dwight C. James, President of the Charleston Branch of the NAACP, to Bruce Bommarito, General Manager of the Radisson Hotel in Columbia, SC, regarding the first annual Women of the Year Contest.
Correspondence from John D. Bradley, III to Abraham Jenkins regarding the recipient's letter to the Charleston Legislative Delegation about the Esau Jenkins Memorial Bridge.
Developing an Agenda for the Information Superhighway by Anthony L. Pharr, Office of Communication, United Church of Christ, was presented to the Telecommunications Task Force, NAACP, during a meeting in Columbia, South Carolina on May 20, 1994.
Correspondence from Stephen Hoffius, Director of Publications for the South Carolina Historical Society, to Cleveland Sellers regarding Grace Jordan McFadden interviews with Civil Rights movement participants.
Correspondence from Vandell Davis, Program Coordinator for the South Carolina Family of the Year, to Regional Selection Committee Members thanking the recipients for their service and to inform them of regional winner announcement procedures.
Correspondence from Dwight C. James, President of the Charleston Branch of the NAACP, to Nelson Rivers, III, Executive Secretary of the S.C. Conference of NAACP Branches, regarding Mrs. Emily H. James being awarded the 1989 NAACP Woman of the Year.
Correspondence from R. E. Pittman, Chief of Community Programs for the United States Department of Agriculture, to William Saunders, Executive Director for COBRA, regarding a preapplication for the Comprehensive Planning Survey.
A cash book for Robert F.W. Allston for the years 1823-1843. The book includes account transactions conducted by Allston including payment of overseer wages, the hiring out of enslaved people, transportation, taxes, governesses, nurses, crops, sundries, and cloth distributed to slaves. This book also includes accounts between Allston and other individuals including the Estate of Charlotte A. Allston (primarily for the purchases of blankets, shoes, and cloth for enslaved people) and an account with Mary P. Jones. The last several pages of the book contain cash ledgers. Allston explicitly notes accounting related to Matanza Plantation, later known as Chicora Wood. Other account records do not explicitly state plantation sites.
Bobby Richardson was born in Sumter, South Carolina on August 19, 1935. While playing high school and American Legion baseball, he was discovered by the New York Yankees and after his high school graduation he joined them. He played two years on the Yankees' minor league farm team and at nineteen he participated in his first professional game. Richardson played with the Yankees for ten years from 1955 to 1966 and won nine out of ten World Series. Richardson earned several awards and holds still-standing records. Following his retirement from professional baseball Richardson coached the University of South Carolina Gamecocks from 1970-1976. In the interview Richardson recalls his friendships with baseball legends Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris; he shares his opinions about the present-day game of baseball, including length of the season, finances, and steroid use. Finally he reflects about the importance of his faith and the impact it has on his personal and professional life. When asked about his best year in baseball he choose 1962, stating "It was just one of those years when everything seemed to go my way."
Correspondence from Vera F. Ransom, Acting State Director for the United States Department of Agriculture to Congressman Mendel J. Davis regarding a comprehensive planning survey.
Samuel Cooper (pronouns: He/His) discusses his upbringing, life history and beliefs, focusing often on the topic of being a gay African American man of faith. When his father, minister of Centenary Methodist Church, Charleston, SC, joined the military to become a chaplain, Cooper and his family began a peripatetic life that took them to various bases in this country and in Germany. Knowing early he was gay, seeing his homosexuality as a "gift," Cooper nevertheless suppressed it, eventually coming out to his family who accepted him, partially, he believes, due to his father having had counseled many LGBTQ men and women in the military. He notes both the benefits and liabilities of being Black and of being gay and describes an episode of crisis at Clemson University. A homophobic comment by a member of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes prompted him to leave that group, come out, join, and become an officer of Clemson's LGBTQ organization, the Lambda Society. He faced near dismissal from Mercer University's Walter F. George School of Law for being an advocate of LGBTQ visibility, and later in the interview he discusses the impacts racial prejudice, both Black and white, and homophobia, can have on clients he represents as a personal injury attorney. In his return to South Carolina working briefly in the Fourth Circuit Solicitor's office, he traveled the state; Cooper, throughout the interview, gives many details of various bars in Columbia, Myrtle Beach and Charleston, describing their appearance and layout and the groups attending them. Once relocated permanently to Charleston, SC, he attended the Metropolitan Community Church and its off shoot, Open Door. He discusses his relationship with his husband, Stavely Edgar, recounts some failed homophobic attacks against him, and notes little or no pushback against Edgar and himself as an interracial couple. He speaks of his religious faith, the Black church, his opinion of historically black colleges possibly limiting experiences for their students, and the threats menacing minorities and democracy due to the presidency of Donald J. Trump.
James Bouknight, MD, PhD (pronouns: He/His), white psychiatrist, speaks of growing up, family life, education and his personal and professional life. Born into a "close and loving family" in rural South Carolina, he grew up on a farm worked by others, his parents being teachers, and his maternal grandparents being a very supportive presence. He always knew he "wasn't like other kids", wasn't athletic, but excelled in school, attending Bishopville High School, as it was being integrated, calling off the junior senior. Aware of a flamboyant gay youth at school, and a gay man who was available for sex in Bishopville, Bouknight did not identify with them and was glad to start dating women when he attended Wofford, the fourth generation of his family to do so. Attending graduate school at Duke University was not a positive experience so Bouknight switched to the University of South Carolina where he had his first relationship with a man and earned his PhD in economics. He considers that relationship a "bad influence" since the man was closeted and engaged to be married. Bouknight then taught at Converse College, in an era when dating between professors and students was encouraged; he married the president of the student body, and their married life began well. He moved into the private sector and eventually became Chair of the Department of Business and Economics at Columbia College and his wife began law school. With time on his hands, Bouknight, keeping fit, began attending the YMCA in Columbia, SC, discovering it had an active gay scene, and his wife, learning of an affair he had with a man, demanded a divorce. It was a difficult time, leading to depression and financial straits. Finding a niche with happy, well-adjusted gay men in Columbia was a positive experience, and Bouknight began a relationship with Bob Stutts, another professor at Columbia College. At age thirty-five, he decided to enter medical school, realizing that the poor medical care his mother had received had led to her death. He attended the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, was out, and was friends with many other gay medical students. He did his residency in psychiatry at the Department of Mental Health in Columbia, SC, founding and running an AIDS support group; he eventually worked for a hospital and had a private practice, including many LGBTQ patients. When his relationship with Bob Stutts ended, he met Ramsey Still, whom he married in Maryland in 2013. He became board certified in geriatric psychiatry, one of the first in the state, and now, semi-retired, lives with his husband in Charleston, SC. At the end of the interview, Bouknight speaks of the illness and eventual death of his medical school friend, Olin Jolley, MD, of AIDS, and how those who are ill and dying are often put in the unfair position of taking care of those who visit them.
