Bernice Robinson Papers, 1920 - 1989

Inventory of the Bernice Robinson Papers, 1920 - 1989

Avery Research Center College of Charleston 125 Bull Street Charleston, SC 29401 USA

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Descriptive Summary...... 3 Biographical Note...... 4 Collection Overview...... 4 Restrictions...... 6 Subject Headings...... 6 Administrative Information...... 8 Detailed Description of the Collection...... 9 1. Biographical Papers, 1950-1985...... 9 2. Works: Writings, Talks, Lectures and Speeches, 1978-1988...... 9 3. Correspondence, 1960-1989...... 10 4. Affiliations, 1954-1988...... 11 5. Booklets and Newspaper Clippings, 1960-1978...... 25 6. Audio Visual Materials, 1920-1970...... 25 7. Oversize Materials, 1968...... 27 Avery Research Center at the College of Charleston

Descriptive Summary Title: Bernice Robinson Papers,

Dates: 1920 - 1989

Creator: Robinson, Bernice.

Abstract: Bernice Violanthe Robinson (1914-1994) was born in Charleston, South Carolina to James C. and Martha Elizabeth Robinson. She was a cosmetologist, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Secretary and Chairperson of Membership, Highlander's first Citizenship School teacher for adult education on John's Island, South Carolina. She held political education and voter registration workshops in Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, and other southern states for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). She worked as a Field Secretary for the Political Organization of the First Congressional District in South Carolina. Robinson was SCLC's Field Supervisor for Adult Education and instructor of reading, and Director of Educational Workshops for the Highlander Research and Education Center. Robinson worked for the South Carolina Commission for Farm Workers (SCCFW), as Supervisor of the Volunteers-In-Service-To-American (VISTA) program. She also ran unsuccessfully for the South Carolina House of Representatives, being the first African American women to run for office in South Carolina. Robinson returned to the SCCFW as the Director of Migrant Day Care. She then became a Loan and Relocation Officer for the Charleston County Community Development Department, a position she held until retirement in 1982.

The collection details Bernice V. Robinson's role as a teacher and social activist for voter education, adult literacy, and child development; with other materials (1960s-1980s) relating to her personal, religious, and social work. Biographical papers include transcripts of her oral history interview. A series of Robinson's works contains copies of speeches on a number of topics. Her correspondence includes letters from social activist and photographer Marion Palfi (1963); Guy and Candie Carawan (1988); Andrew Young, Jr. (1977) and others. A series on her professional affiliations documents her political, educational, and advocacy activities throughout her life. Robinson's political papers include correspondence and campaign materials regarding her candidacy to the South Carolina House of Representatives (1972, 1974); Her church papers include minutes and correspondence, from the Board of Christian Social Concerns and the Program Council of the United Methodist Church; materials regarding Old Bethel United Methodist Church, Charleston, South Carolina; and speeches given at United Methodist Women conferences. Other materials documenting Robinson's association with African American and women's associations include those regarding the Charleston Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (1955-1974, bulk 1970s); and papers regarding her sorority, Sigma Gamma Rho. Audio- visual materials include reel to reel tapes, cassette copies and transcripts of

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speeches for a lecture series, A decade of civil rights history, 1960-1970: the movement as viewed by participants at Loop College, Chicago, IL (1970). The series also includes photographs of Robinson and unidentified friends and family members. Miscellaneous and oversize materials include newspaper clippings on various, mostly political, topics, and a SCLC newsletter SoulForce.

Extent: 6.75 linear feet(15 archival boxes)

Repository: Avery Research Center at the College of Charleston

Call Number: AMN 1018

Language of Material: Material in English

Biographical Note

Bernice Violanthe Robinson was born in 1914 in Charleston, South Carolina to James C. and Martha Elizabeth Robinson. Her father was a bricklayer and her mother a homemaker and seamstress. Robinson attended Simonton Elementary and Burke Industrial High School, graduating in 1931. She then relocated to Harlem, New York, where she worked in the garment district during the day and attended evening classes at the Poro School of Cosmetology.

Upon Robinson's 1947 return to South Carolina, she opened a beauty shop and worked with the Charleston Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) as Secretary and Chairperson of Membership. In 1954, she attended a Highlander Folk School workshop in Tennessee, with her cousin Septima Clark. On the insistence of Clark and Esau Jenkins, businessman and founder of the Progressive Club, Robinson became the first Citizenship School teacher for adult education on John's Island, South Carolina in 1957. Robinson worked as a volunteer and part-time employee, teaching adults reading skills to enable them to vote. When Highlander transferred the program to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), Robinson stayed with Highlander holding Voter Registration and Political Education workshops in Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, and other southern states. In 1963, she worked as a Field Secretary for the Political Organization of the First Congressional District in South Carolina. The next year she joined SCLC as a Field Supervisor for Adult Education and instructor of reading, and Director of Educational Workshops for the Highlander Research and Education Center. Robinson left the SCLC in 1970 to work for the South Carolina Commission for Farm Workers (SCCFW), as Supervisor of the Volunteers- In-Service-To-American (VISTA) program. In 1972 and 1974, she ran unsuccessfully for the South Carolina House of Representatives, being the first African American women to run for office in South Carolina. Robinson returned to the SCCFW in 1975 as the Director of Migrant Day Care. In 1979, she became a Loan and Relocation Officer for the Charleston County Community Development Department, a position she held until retirement in 1982.

Robinson died in Charleston, September 3, 1994.

Collection Overview

Correspondence, minutes, financial documents, literary productions, printed materials, photographic materials, and audio recordings document Bernice V. Robinson's role (late 1950s-1980s) as a teacher and social activist for voter education, adult literacy, and child development, with other materials (1960s-1980s) relating to her personal, religious, and social work. Biographical papers include transcripts of her oral history interview, detailing her life and family; race relations in Charleston; work in New York City; differences in segregation in the South and North; her work with the Charleston Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and with her cousin Septima Clark, Esau Jenkins, the Progressive Club, and Highlander

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Folk School, educating adults for voter registration and establishing schools on John's, Wadmalaw, and Edisto Islands; working for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Andrew Young, Rosa Parks, Dorothy Cotton, Hosea Williams, Bayard Rustin, Medgar Evers, and James Bevel; working for a variety of other civil rights related and social welfare programs; and her unsuccessful political career. The second series, Works, contains copies of speeches on a number of topics. Her correspondence includes letters from social activist and photographer Marion Palfi (1963); Guy and Candie Carawan (1988); Andrew Young, Jr. (1977) and others.

A series on her professional affiliations is divided into 18 sub-series documenting Robinson's work with Highlander Folk School, later Highlander Research and Education Center, (1957-1988, bulk 1957-1960s), with Myles Horton correspondence (1957-1988); materials from Highlander sponsored programs, including the Southwide Voter Education Internship Project, (1965); the South Carolina Citizenship School (1957-1960). Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) papers (1964-1969) include data regarding its history, structure and projects--with tributes regarding Martin Luther King, Jr. SCLC Citizenship Education Training Program papers (1963-1969) contain reports, workbooks, and materials used by Robinson in teaching reading and voter registration. Papers (1967-1970) on the South Carolina branch of the Voter Education Project, Inc., sponsored by the Southern Regional Council, include reports (1965-1966), booklets and charts. Materials (1964-1970) regarding Robinson's involvement with the Community Action Program, of the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) detail a three month Community Action Technicians Training Program (CAT/ CAP), in Madison, Wisconsin (1967); with post-CAT papers (1967-1968), as well. The South Carolina Commission for Farm Workers (SCCFW)/Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) program papers (1966-1972) contain grant proposals, publications regarding its inception, structure, and reports (1970-1972) from Robinson's territory of Edisto, John's, Wadmalaw and Yonges Islands and Williamsburg County to supervisors and James E. Clyburn, Executive Director. Files on day care and child development organizations document the creation of, and Robinson's directorship (1971-1973) of the Yonges Island Day Care Center. Civil Rights Movement Oral History Project papers (of the Institutional Development and Economic Affairs Service [IDEAS]), include grant proposals, and carbons of letters, requesting interviews.

Robinson's political papers include correspondence and campaign materials regarding her candidacy to the South Carolina House of Representatives (1972, 1974); and campaign materials regarding Charles "Pug" Ravenel's unsuccessful bid the for United States Senate, and Robinson's work (1978) as field coordinator. Her church papers include minutes and correspondence, from the Board of Christian Social Concerns and the Program Council of the United Methodist Church; materials regarding Old Bethel United Methodist Church, Charleston, South Carolina; and speeches given at United Methodist Women conferences. Other materials documenting Robinson's association with African American and women's associations include those regarding the Charleston Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (1955-1974, bulk 1970s); and papers regarding her sorority, Sigma Gamma Rho.

Audio-visual materials include reel to reel tapes, cassette user copies and transcripts of speeches for a lecture series, A decade of civil rights history, 1960-1970: the movement as viewed by participants at Loop College, Chicago, IL (1970), featuring Fannie Lou Hamer, Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth, Rosa Parks, and John Lewis; with recordings for Guy Carawan's and Dr. Lawrence D. Reddick's speeches. The series also includes original and photocopied black and white photographs of Robinson and unidentified friends and family members, some originals from Avery's photographic collections. Miscellaneous and oversize materials include a small amount of photocopied newspaper clippings on various, mostly political, topics, and a SCLC newsletter SoulForce.

Note: Part of Robinson's oral history is published in Refuse to stand silently by: an oral history of grass roots social activism in America, edited by Eliot Wigginton. Bernice Robinson is interviewed in the documentary film, You got to move: stories of change in the South.

Collection Arrangement

1. Biographical Papers

2. Works: Writings, Talks, Lectures and Speeches

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3. Correspondence

4. Affiliations

5. Booklets and Newspaper Clippings

6. Audio Visual Materials

7. Oversize Materials

Restrictions Access Restrictions

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Subject Headings

African Americans -- Civil rights -- United States.

African Americans -- Education.

African American politicians.

African Americans -- Politics and government.

Bethel United Methodist Church (Charleston, S.C.)

Carawan, Candie.

Carawan, Guy.

Charleston (S.C.) -- Race relations.

Civil rights movements -- Southern States.

Civil rights -- Societies, etc.

Clark, Septima Poinsette, 1898-1987.

Clyburn, James.

Community Action Program (U.S.)

Day care centers -- South Carolina -- Yonges Island.

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Education -- South Carolina -- Edisto Island.

Education -- South Carolina -- Johns Island.

Education -- South Carolina -- Wadmalaw Island.

Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925-1963.

Functional literacy -- United States.

Hamer, Fannie Lou.

Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.)

Highlander Research and Education Center (Knoxville, Tenn.)

Horton, Myles, 1905-1990.

Institutional Development & Economic Affairs Service, Inc.

Jenkins, Esau, 1910-1972.

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.

Lewis, John, 1940 Feb. 21-

Methodist Church (U.S.). South Carolina Conference.

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Charleston Branch (Charleston, S.C.)

Palfi, Marion, 1907-1978.

Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005.

Ravenel, Charles Dufort, 1938

Robinson, Bernice, 1914-1994.

Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority.

South Carolina Commission for Farm Workers.

Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

Southern Regional Council.

Southern States -- Race relations.

United Methodist Church (U.S.)

United Methodist Women (U.S.). South Carolina Conference.

Volunteers in Service to America.

Voter registration -- Southern States.

Williams, Hosea, 1926-

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Young, Andrew, 1932-

Yonges Island Day Care Center (S.C.)

Administrative Information Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Bernice Robinson Papers, Avery Research Center, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC, USA.

Processing Information

Processed by Georgette Mayo, April 2006

Encoded by Melissa Bronheim, July 2010

Edited by Aaron Spelbring, May 2013

Funding from the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation supported the processing of this collection.

Funding from the Council on Library and Information Resources supported the collection processing and encoding of this finding aid.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

1. Biographical Papers, 1950-1985

Box 1 Folder 1 Typescripts of biographical sketches, undated

Box 1 Folder 2 Resumes and employment applications,1967-1979

Box 1 Folder 3 Identification and business cards, circa 1950 and 1972-1975

From Robinson's hair salon; Action /VISTA program; and South Carolina School Boards.

Box 1 Folder 4 Date and address book, 1973

Box 1 Folder 5 Transcript of oral interview of Robinson by Sue Thrasher and Eliot Wiggington, November 9, 1980

Topics discussed include early family years, unions for the skilled trades; educational system in Charleston County, segregation differences in the South and North; Robinson's experiences working in garment factories and beauty shops in Harlem, New York; South Carolina Human Relations Council; NAACP; Ruby Hurley; Hubert Humphrey; Septima Clark; Rosa Parks; Esau Jenkins, the Progressive Club and African American education and voter registration; Robinson's involvement with the Highlander Folk School; Myles Horton; experience as being the first Citizenship School teacher; the establishment of Citizenship Schools on Johns, Wadmalaw and Edisto Islands; funding from Maxwell Hahn of the Field Foundation; the 1959 raid on Highlander; Andrew Young, Jr.; Southern Christian Leadership Conference; Medgar Evers; Martin Luther King, Jr.; Rosa Parks; Hosea Williams; Bayard Rustin; James Bevel; Dorothy Cotton; Randolph Blackwell, and others; Robert Moses and the Council of Federated Organization; Robinson's employment with the South Carolina Commission for Farm Workers/VISTA Volunteers program; her run for the State House of Representatives; consultant work with IDEAS and the terminated Civil Rights Movement Oral History Project; literacy training; and economic and social advancements of African Americans resulting from the Civil Rights movement.

Box 1 Folder 6 Transcript, edited version of above interview for the book, Refuse to Stand Silently By: An Oral History of Grass Roots Social Activism in America 1921-1964.

Box 1 Folder 7 Newsletters, 1973 and 1985

From Garrett High School, Charleston and South Carolina Committee for the Humanities, featuring articles on Robinson.

Box 1 Folder 8 Typescripts, church programs, and greeting cards, 1963-1975

Regarding Robinson's new house blessings. 2. Works: Writings, Talks, Lectures and Speeches, 1978-1988

Box 1 Folder 9 Journal, 1978

With draft of speech regarding cousin Septima Clark.

Box 1 Folder 10 Central Coast Literacy Conference: Letters, statement of purpose, conference program, 1986

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Sponsored by the City of Watsonville (California) Public Library. Includes handwritten notes on index cards of Robinson's speech regarding literacy, citizenship and Highlander Center.

Box 1 Folder 11 Lee Davis Letters, speech and flyers, 1986

Regarding University of California, Santa Cruz Women's Center discussion, Empowerment of the Estranged and Powerless, with Robinson as the keynote speaker. Also includes information regarding the Watsonville cannery strike, and the film documentary regarding Highlander, You Got to Move, featuring Robinson. Also see Box 3 Folder 10 for essay written by Lee Davis regarding Citizenship Schools on Johns Island.

Box 1 Folder 12 Literacy Volunteers of America, Inc. Correspondence, newsletters, conference program, 1986

Includes typescript of Robinson's speech regarding literacy for citizenship and employment.

Box 1 Folder 13 Correspondence, biographical sketches, handwritten and typed drafts of speech, 1988

For Robinson's talk at the South Carolina State Museum regarding the importance of voting.

Box 1 Folder 14 Handwritten speech, undated

Regarding the early days of the Civil Rights Movement; and miscellaneous handwritten notes. 3. Correspondence, 1960-1989

Box 1 Folder 15 Personal letters, invitations, greetings and post cards from various family members and friends, 1960-1988 and undated

Includes letters from photographer Marion Palfi; Septima Clark; folk singers Guy and Candie Carawan.

Box 1 Folder 16 Personal correspondence and photo of Bishop Peter Mark Kariuki Wachira, Roho Israel Church of Kenya, 1972-1973

Regarding Christianity in America.

Box 1 Folder 17 Professional letters to Robinson, 1965-1967

Regarding information on cooperatives from the United States Department of Agriculture; and her participation in a tour of the Charleston Naval Station.

Box 1 Folder 18 Professional correspondence regarding Robinson seeking employment, 1972-1977

Includes letter of recommendation from Richard W. Riley.

Box 1 Folder 19 Professional letters, 1973-1979

Includes letter from Andrew Young thanking Robinson for her message regarding his nomination as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations; and letter of appointment to the Tax Exempt Board, Charleston County Council.

Box 1 Folder 20 Professional correspondence, 1980-1989 and undated

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Incluldes requests for Robinson to speak about adult literacy and requests for interviews from doctoral students regarding Highlander and Citizenship Schools. 4. Affiliations, 1954-1988

4.1 Schools

Box 2 Folder 1 New York School of Interior Design: Course catalog and newsletter, 1963

Box 2 Folder 2 New York School of Interior Design: Correspondence, course papers, and design postcards from Robinson's Home Study Course, 1963-1964

Box 2 Folder 3 Interior design course, 1963-1964

Handwritten notes and drafts for home study lessons.

4.2 The Highlander Folk School and Research Center

Box 3 Folder 1 Highlander and Citizenship Schools: Correspondence, 1957-1988

Includes letter from Highlander founder, Myles Horton, congratulating Robinson on being an excellent teacher at the Johns Island Adult School; letter from Robinson to Horton commenting on the tenuous status of the School; letter from staff member, Anne Lockwood offering Robinson a position with Robinson's reply; letter from Horton to Leslie Dunbar, executive director of the Field Foundation, requesting funding to collect oral histories from civil rights movement participants, which Robinson and Septima Clark would gather; letter from Horton congratulating Robinson regarding her campaign for the South Carolina State House of Representatives, with references to the historic value of the Highlander tapes; letter and photocopied newspaper clippings regarding attacks against the Center for its efforts to close the Bumpass Cove Sanitary Landfill, Tennennesse.

Box 3 Folder 2 Highlander's The United Nations and You workshop roster, 1955

Box 3 Folder 3 Photographs, circa 1960s

Robinson teaching at a voter education workshop; photocopy of itinerary regarding schedule of citizenship training workshops.

Box 3 Folder 4 Highlander Reports Newsletters, 1961-1988

Also includes brochures regarding the Center and their fiftieth anniversary campaign.

Box 3 Folder 5 Highlander Folk School Audio Tape Collection finding aid, 1964 and undated

From Tennessee State Library and Archives; with essay regarding participants on recordings

Box 3 Folder 6 Esau Jenkins and the Sea Island Progressive Club Center: Biographical sketch, itineraries, booklet, correspondence, and newspaper clipping, 1964-1972

Includes letter with proposal from Jenkins requesting a grant for a day care program from the Department of Labor; letter from American Friends Service Committee regarding Southern School Desegregation work with employment opportunity for Robinson; and Jenkins' obituary.

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Box 3 Folder 7 Center expenses and income report, 1966-1967

Box 3 Folder 8 Typescripts, 1979 and undated

Regarding Robinson's experiences and influence on the creation of the Citizenship Program in South Carolina; and typed transcription of her talk regarding Citizenship Training Schools.

Box 3 Folder 9 Typescripts and published essays, 1966-1987

Regarding Highlander Center and citizenship education by Aimee Horton; with letter to Robinson regarding the possibility of jointly writing an article on literacy education.

Box 3 Folder 10 Lee Davis typescript, 1986

Regarding Johns Island's Citizenship School with quotes from Robinson, Brazilian educator Paulo Freire, Septima Clark, and Esau Jenkins.

Box 3 Folder 11 John Beecher (great nephew of Harriet Beecher Stowe) speech and poems, letters, and press release, 1961-1974

Writings include autographed poem about Highlander Folk School; and speeches regarding racial attitudes and the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.

Box 3 Folder 12 Directory, 1970

For identifying institutions and individuals possessing creative talent and financial support for the Center.

Box 3 Folder 13 Jerome Franson letter and abstract, 1976

From Georgia College, requesting an interview from Robinson regarding her experience with the Highlander Folk School's Sea Island Citizenship project.

Box 3 Folder 14 Poem and newspaper articles, 1959-1966

Regarding Highlander, Robinson, Septima Clark and participants. Includes newspaper articles regarding Robinson and Clark applying to the Peace Corps.

Box 3 Folder 15 Published journal, 1979

Featuring an article about Myles Horton.

4.3 Citizenship School-South Carolina

Box 3 Folder 16 Materials used in Citizenship Schools in South Carolina, 1957-1960

Includes sample application for South Carolina voting registration; booklet and test on the on the U.S. Constitution and Government; and math workbook.

Box 3 Folder 17 Citizenship School Workshops: Typescripts and booklets, 1961-1963 and undated.

Used throughout the south sponsored by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

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Box 3 Folder 18 Reports, undated

By Robinson, regarding teachers and students attending Adult Citizenship Schools in Johns, Edisto, and Wadmalaw Islands.

Box 3 Folder 19 Photographs, circa 1957-1960

Includes Robinson with adult and youth Citizenship students.

Box 3 Folder 20 Miscellaneous reports, surveys, and booklets, 1960-1965

Published by government agencies regarding community development and leaders.

4.4 Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

Box 4 Folder 1 Correspondence, 1964-1967

From Septima Clark informing Robinson of grant funding of Maxwell Hahn, Field Foundation; and letters regarding Robinson's Citizenship workshops.

Box 4 Folder 2 SCLC newsletters and staff news, 1963-1964 and 1967

Box 4 Folder 3 SCLC calendar, 1965

Includes Robinson's handwritten notes.

Box 4 Folder 4 SCLC publications,1963-1965

Includes booklets and pamphlets regarding SCLC, Alabama Tutorial Project, and staff member Reverend James Bevel.

Box 4 Folder 5 Photocopy of Ford Foundation Grant proposal, 1965

Written by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Reverend Andrew J. Young, requesting leadership training for Black ministers of thirty urban areas and citizenship training for neighborhood leaders of five major cities; and catalog regarding Ford Foundation travel and study grants.

Box 4 Folder 6 Programs and name tags, 1965-1966

Including benefit program honoring Rosa Parks; and photocopied annual report by Martin Luther King Jr. for SCLC's Ninth Annual Convention.

Box 4 Folder 7 Booklet "A Decade of SCLC," 1967

Box 4 Folder 8 Roster and Report, 1966-1967

Roster of attendance at school desegregation program in Montgomery, Alabama; report regarding Wilcox County, Alabama Anti-Poverty Program.

Box 4 Folder 9 SCLC staff and membership rosters, 1968

Box 4 Folder 10 Booklet, 1968

Regarding Poor People's Campaign in Washington, DC.

Box 4 Folder 11 Minister Leadership Training Program booklet and pamphlet, 1968

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Box 4 Folder 12 Programs and newspaper clippings, 1970-1988

Regarding tributes to Septima Poinsette Clark; articles about Robinson and Andrew Young.

Box 4 Folder 13 Photocopied typescript, pamphlets and published reports 1965, 1986 and undated

From various organizations regarding civil rights, nonviolent resistance; reports regarding racism and race relations.

Box 4 Folder 14 United States Commission on Civil Rights published reports and conference roster, 1963 and 1966

4.5 SCLC: Martin Luther King, Jr. Materials

Box 4 Folder 15 "Recognition Dinner" program, 1964

Honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. as winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, Atlanta, Georgia.

Box 4 Folder 16 Martin Luther King, Jr. printed speeches, writings, and interview, 1963-1967

Also includes interview in Playboy Magazine.

Box 4 Folder 17 Newspaper clipping, 1968

Regarding King uniting civil rights efforts with Black Power advocate Stokely Carmichael.

Box 4 Folder 18 Martin Luther King Jr. obsequies, 1968

Box 4 Folder 19 Martin Luther King, Jr. magazines articles, 1968

Box 4 Folder 20 Memorandums, 1969

Regarding organizational assignments for the "Martin Luther King, Jr. Film Project."

Box 4 Folder 21 Coretta Scott King published address, 1970

On the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Box 4 Folder 22 Programs and tributes, 1972-1987

Regarding Charleston, South Carolina events honoring King.

Box 4 Folder 23 Speeches, 1986 and undated

By Robinson, regarding Martin Luther King's birthday, and the importance of voting; also includes letter requesting Robinson to speak; and typed speech to People Aiding People Organization.

Box 4 Folder 24 Conference speeches and newsletter, 1972

Regarding nonviolence in the 1970s featuring Coretta Scott King, Jesse Jackson and Andrew Young, Jr.; and newsletter from Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Social Change.

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4.6 SCLC: Citizenship Education Training Program

Box 5 Folder 1 SCLC Citizenship Education Program: Photocopy of typescripts, student roster, pamphlets, and booklets, 1963-1964

Includes pamphlet describing voter registration project at the Dorchester Center, Georgia; and mimeograph poem dedicated to the Dorchester Center.

Box 5 Folder 2 Hilton Head Progressive Committee and Lawton South Carolina Township Improvement Association rosters, 1964-1965

Box 5 Folder 3 Workbooks and booklets, 1965-1968 and undated

Used in Robinson's voting class for the SCLC Citizenship Education program.

Box 5 Folder 4 Lesson plans on Negro history, Constitutional Amendments, and consumer education material, undated

Box 5 Folder 5 Statistical report, 1962-1964

Regarding SCLC Citizenship Education; also includes monthly attendance and record sheet.

Box 5 Folder 6 Newsletter page written by Septima Clark, 1963

Regarding registered voter success by SCLC Citizenship Schools.

Box 5 Folder 7 Record book, 1964-1965

Regarding teacher and member attendance in Citizenship Schools in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and Allendale, Beaufort, Berkeley, Charleston, Colleton, Dorchester, Hampton and Jasper Counties, South Carolina.

Box 5 Folder 8 Reports, 1965

By Robinson, regarding Citizenship Education Program.

Box 5 Folder 9 Correspondence: Citizenship teachers, 1965-1966

Responding to Robinson's request on availability and locations for classes. Includes poem by a North Charleston Adult School student.

Box 5 Folder 10 C.O. Federal Credit Union typescripts, financial report and booklets, 1965-1968, 1972

Box 5 Folder 11 Report, 1966

Regarding Citizenship Education workshop held at Penn Community Center, Frogmore, South Carolina.

Box 5 Folder 12 SCLC teacher's paid vouchers lists, 1966-1967

Box 5 Folder 13 Federal assistance programs guide, undated

To assist members associated with the Citizenship Education Program.

Box 5 Folder 14 Grant proposal, 1967

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From the Citizenship Education Program to Marshall Field Foundation.

Box 5 Folder 15 Letter and transcripts, 1967

To Robinson from National Education Association conference regarding the treatment of minorities in textbooks and other teaching materials.

Box 5 Folder 16 Training leaflets 1968-1969

information on rental housing; newspapers; and taxes.

Box 5 Folder 17 Field report 1968-1969

Of Robinson's traveling through South Carolina.

Box 5 Folder 18 Program itinerary, 1969

Regarding Citizenship Education Workshop at Dorchester Community Center, Georgia; and memorandum regarding SCLC conference at Penn Conference Center, Frogmore, South Carolina.

Box 5 Folder 19 Miscellaneous list, undated

By Robinson, regarding items to carry to the new center.

4.7 Voter Education Project, Inc.

Box 5 Folder 20 Newsletter and pamphlet, 1967-1970

Regarding Voter Education Project, a program of the Southern Regional Council.

Box 5 Folder 21 South Carolina Voter Registration Project: Reports, roster, and newspaper clipping, 1965-1966

Includes original and photocopies of Robinson's reports regarding the Southwide Voter Education Workshop.

Box 5 Folder 22 Voter registration education: Typescripts and booklet, 1967 and undated

Box 5 Folder 23 Government and registered African American voters in South Carolina: Booklet and charts, 1969

4.8 Community Action Program (CAP)

Box 6 Folder 1 Menominee, Wisconsin Community Action Program: Memorandums, grant application, and proposal, 1966

Box 6 Folder 2 Published essay and guides, undated

Describing the Community Action program and procedures.

Box 6 Folder 3 Head Start programs: Reports, manual, memorandums, letters, grant applications and proposals 1966-1967

Box 6 Folder 4 Community Action Program Grantees Directory, 1966

Box 6 Folder 5 CAP handbook, undated

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Regarding community action and public information.

Box 6 Folder 6 Report and brochures, 1966 and undated

Reports regarding CAP training program for depressed rural areas; brochures regarding Community Action programs for the elderly, legal services, and cooperatives.

Box 6 Folder 7 Memorandums, 1965-1967

Regarding Office of Economic Opportunity and community action program updates.

Box 6 Folder 8 Brochures, circa 1965

Regarding community resources in Charleston County.

4.9 Community Action Program Technicians (C.A.T.) Training

Box 7 Folder 1 Letters and newsletter, 1967

From Community Action Technicians (C.A.T.) directors to Robinson regarding acceptance to training program and orientation in Madison, Wisconsin.

Box 7 Folder 2 CAT training program: Roster, weekly class schedules and itineraries of field trips, 1967

Box 7 Folder 3 Creative process course: Typed class handouts, Robinson's handwritten notes, workbook, and pamphlet, 1967

Box 7 Folder 4 Communications classes: Syllabi and course materials, 1967

Box 7 Folder 5 Human behavior course: Syllabus, course materials, and handwritten notes, 1967

Box 7 Folder 6 Leadership classes: Syllabi, course materials, and handwritten notes, 1967

Box 7 Folder 7 Community analysis and organization classes: Syllabi, and course materials, 1967

Box 7 Folder 8 Program administration and Ohio opportunity program: Syllabi, brochures, and newsletter, 1967

Box 7 Folder 9 Typescript and handwritten class notes, 1967

Regarding consumer co-ops; public welfare; poverty; and senior citizens programs.

Box 7 Folder 10 Booklet, handwritten notes, syllabus, and typescripts, 1967

Regarding manpower development programs; and Native Americans.

Box 7 Folder 11 Reports, itinerary, typed worksheets, typescripts, newsletters, and brochures, 1967

From Durham and Charlotte, North Carolina field trip.

Box 7 Folder 12 Report, 1967

Regarding evaluation of program trainees by Richard E. Morris; and Robinson's handwritten field notes regarding Durham and Charlotte workshops.

Box 7 Folder 13 Miscellaneous typescripts and course materials, 1967

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Regarding courses given during C.A.T. training

Box 7 Folder 14 Handwritten class notes and journal, 1967

Of Robinson's C.A.T. training experience in Madison Wisconsin, Iowa, Indiana, and North Carolina.

Box 7 Folder 15 Booklet, typescript, program and certificate, 1967

Regarding The C.A.T.ALYST Class of '67.

Box 7 Folder 16 C.A.T. graduate conference workshops, 1967

Includes class notes; itinerary and program.

Box 7 Folder 17 Miscellaneous materials, 1967

Regarding tourist attractions and places of interest in Madison, Wisconsin.

Box 7 Folder 18 Correspondence: post C.A.T. training program updates and events, 1967

Box 7 Folder 19 C.A.T. Alumni Association, 1967

Includes By-Laws and Constitution, handwritten minutes, and typed membership information.

Box 7 Folder 20 C.A.T. Alumni Newsletter, 1967

Box 7 Folder 21 Correspondence: CAP program and alumni information, 1967-1968

4.10 Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) Program, South Carolina Commission for Farm Workers, Inc. (SCCFW)

Box 8 Folder 1 SCCFW: Certificate of Incorporation, by-laws, procedures guide and position descriptions, 1966-1968

Box 8 Folder 2 VISTA: Handbook, organizational flow chart, job descriptions and pamphlet, 1969-1970

Box 8 Folder 3 VISTA: Correspondence and memorandums, 1969-1972 and undated

Includes Robinson's employment acceptance letter.

Box 8 Folder 4 Job description, orientation and training schedule, SCCFW project brief and handwritten notes, 1970

Regarding Robinson's VISTA supervisor position and program.

Box 8 Folder 5 Guidelines, reports and handwritten notes,1969-1972

Regarding project review board, detailing goals, job and area descriptions of Charleston, Williamsburg, Dorchester, and Sumter Counties.

Box 8 Folder 6 Grant proposal, 1969-1970

Submitted to SCCFW regarding Edisto Island Community Self Development Program co-written by Reverend McKinley Washington.

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Box 8 Folder 7 Reports and roster, 1970-1971

Reports regarding social and economic conditions; SCCFW projects on Edisto, Johns, Wadmalaw and Yonges Islands; co-op membership roster.

Box 8 Folder 8 Reports, 1970

Includes itineraries; weekly, and monthly progress reports submitted by Robinson to Program Officers; report to James E. Clyburn, Executive Director, SCCFW.

Box 8 Folder 9 Annual reports, 1970-1972

Regarding VISTA Volunteer Program project overview written by Robinson.

Box 8 Folder 10 VISTA volunteer training and resource manuals and memorandums,1971

Box 8 Folder 11 Itineraries, weekly, and monthly reports, 1971

Submitted by Robinson to VISTA Associate Director.

Box 8 Folder 12 VISTA volunteer's monthly progress reports, 1971

Box 9 Folder 1 SCCFW program account budget forms, 1971-1972

Includes summary of work programs and budget.

Box 9 Folder 2 Letters and grant proposal, 1971 and undated

Regarding Williamsburg County Health Fair, sponsored by VISTA and Williamsburg County Medical Association. Reports provide demographics of towns within Williamsburg County.

Box 9 Folder 3 Monthly reports, 1972

Submitted by Robinson to SCCFW Officers.

Box 9 Folder 4 History of Petersfield Island, South Carolina community, 1972

Includes information regarding improvement association (PIA).

Box 9 Folder 5 New VISTA volunteer staff training schedules, 1972

Box 9 Folder 6 South Carolina Council on Human Relations memorandum and booklet, 1971

Box 9 Folder 7 VISTA participants photo negatives, undated

Box 9 Folder 8 Newspaper clippings, 1971-1972

Includes VISTA volunteer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and migrant laborers on Johns Island, South Carolina.

4.11 VISTA Day Care and Child Development Organizations

Box 9 Folder 9 Report: VISTA Volunteers training seminar in South Carolina day care procedures, 1970

Box 9 Folder 10 Report: Child Care Ministry, Dorchester County, South Carolina, 1970

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Box 9 Folder 11 Letter, proposal and declaration for charter, 1970

Regarding St. Marks Day-Care Center, Williamsburg County.

Box 9 Folder 12 South Carolina Retarded Children's Habilitation Center: Letter and grant proposal, 1970-1972

Box 9 Folder 13 United Communities for Child Development: Photocopies of Certificate of Incorporation with minutes, 1971

Box 9 Folder 14 Health Start and day care programs memorandums and grant proposals, 1971 and 1973

Box 9 Folder 15 Conference materials, 1972

Includes statement of purpose and flyers regarding Children's March for Survival.

Box 9 Folder 16 Day Care and Child Development Council of America, Inc and South East Caucus Child Advocacy, 1971-1972

Includes Letters, newsletters, newspaper articles, and brochures.

Box 9 Folder 17 Agendas and booklet, 1972 and undated

Regarding day care conferences from Southern Association on Children Under Six; National Parents Federation of Day Care and Child Development; and National Child Development Action; proposal regarding task force on child care needs and facilities.

Box 9 Folder 18 Miscellaneous reports, bibliographies, and booklets, 1965-1966 and 1971-1973

Published by government agencies regarding day care, education, and resources for disadvantaged children.

Box 9 Folder 19 Septima P. Clark Day Care Center Dedication Ceremony Program, 1978

Box 9 Folder 20 The Governor's Committee for Child Development: By-laws, typescripts, board member listing, 1973

Includes typescript of committee's "origins."

Box 9 Folder 21 Committee for Child Development: Minutes and hand written notes, 1973

Includes Robinson's handwritten notes regarding "Planning and Priorities Committee Report."

Box 9 Folder 22 Letters and reports, 1973

Regarding non profit day care centers in Charleston County serving low income families.

Box 9 Folder 23 The Child Development Associate Consortium, 1975-1976

Includes reports, guidelines, newsletters, and pamphlets.

4.12 Yonges Island Day Care Center

Box 10 Folder 1 Yonges Island Day Care Center Association, Inc., 1970

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Includes Constitution and By-Laws, program and position description.

Box 10 Folder 2 Foundations for Day Care and Child Development lists, undated

Box 10 Folder 3 Funding for Yonges Island Day Care Center, 1970-1971

Includes correspondence and grant proposals.

Box 10 Folder 4 Yonges Island Day Care's kitchen equipment and supplies purchase, 1971

Includes letter, price quotations, photocopied blueprints for the United States Department of Agriculture authorization for purchase; estimates from Food Service Supplies, Inc.; drawings of kitchen layout.

Box 10 Folder 5 Request of funding Yonges Island Day Care, 1972

Includes correspondence and grant proposals.

Box 10 Folder 6 Correspondence, 1973

Regarding disputes of grant and government funding between the United Methodist Church's Commission on Religion and Race, and the State Department of Public Welfare and Social Service for Yonges Island Day Care.

Box 10 Folder 7 Yonges Island Day Care Center staffing proposals and notes, undated

Box 10 Folder 8 Magazine articles and newspaper clippings, 1970-1973

Regarding the Yonges Island Day Care Center and Sea Island poverty.

4.13 Institutional Development & Economic Affairs Service Inc. (IDEAS)

Box 11 Folder 1 Workshop program and correspondence, 1971

Regarding the Fifth Ecumenical Workshop sponsored by IDEAS, held at the Highlander Center, Knoxville, Tennessee.

Box 11 Folder 2 Correspondence, typescripts and project proposal, 1972

Between Robinson and Brian Beum, President of IDEAS, regarding the utilization of recorded audio Highlander interviews of Southern civil rights activists during the 1950s and 1960s.

Box 11 Folder 3 Foxfire collaborative with IDEAS journal article, 1972

Box 11 Folder 4 Leadership Development Program, 1973

Includes letter, project proposal, and brochure regarding Robinson's application to the program.

Box 11 Folder 5 Civil Rights Movement Oral History Project proposal drafts, 1972-1973

Box 11 Folder 6 Typescript and report, 1972-1973

Regarding Eutaw, Alabama, the initial site for the Civil Rights Oral History Program. Typescript by Robinson regarding Eutaw's experimental school.

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Box 11 Folder 7 Civil Rights Oral History project correspondence and typescripts, 1973

With proposal review and project summary. Includes letters to Rosa Parks, Andrew Young, Jr., John Lewis, Bayard Rustin, Marion Barry, Jr., Maxwell Hahn, Lloyd K. Garrison and others.

Box 11 Folder 8 Correspondence 1973

Regarding Robinson seeking employment after project was terminated due to lack of funding. Includes correspondence with Mendel J. Davis.

Box 11 Folder 9 Miscellaneous booklets, 1972-1973

Regarding funding foundations for Oral History project and community action guide for Washington D.C.

4.14 South Carolina Commission for Farm Workers, Inc.

Box 12 Folder 1 SCCFW position description, employee handbook, training schedule, and benefits information, 1973-1976

Regarding Robinson's new position as Manpower Coordinator.

Box 12 Folder 2 Reports and booklet, 1973-1976

Regarding Coastal Plains Human Development Coordinating Council, Sullivan's Island, South Carolina; and resort development on the Sea Islands.

Box 12 Folder 3 Robinson's High school talent search program proposals, 1974

Box 12 Folder 4 Report and minutes, 1977

Regarding summer migrant and Charleston County Social Services day care programs.

Box 12 Folder 5 Handbook, project proposal, budgets, and drafts, 1977-1978

Regarding CETA (Comprehensive Employment and Training Act) program; with Robinson's CETA work plan for the Youth Economic & Development Project.

Box 12 Folder 6 Proposal, 1978

By Robinson, regarding training needs assessment for minority development.

Box 12 Folder 7 Typescripts, 1978

Regarding program description of Youth Economic & Development Project, co- sponsored by the City of Charleston and Trident United Way.

4.15 Charleston County Community Development

Box 12 Folder 8 Charleston, Berkeley and Dorchester counties statistical reports, 1970

Box 12 Folder 9 Robinson's vehicle mileage reports and forms, 1979

Box 12 Folder 10 Residential rehabilitation program in Charleston County Guidelines, undated

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Box 12 Folder 11 Community Development Newsletters, 1979-1980

4.16 Political related associations

Box 13 Folder 1 Correspondence, 1963

Regarding response to Robinson's request for listing of district officers and committees for the First Congressional District.

Box 13 Folder 2 Citizens Committee of Charleston County Constitution and By-Laws, letters, minutes and agendas, 1964-1975

Box 13 Folder 3 Political Action Committee of Charleston County Constitution and By-Laws and minutes, 1966 and 1978

Includes Political Awareness League of Charleston County program booklet, 1972.

Box 13 Folder 4 Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party typescript, circa 1966

Regarding assisting legislature to consolidate counties.

Box 13 Folder 5 "Blacks for (J. Sidi) Limehouse" Campaign materials, 1971

Box 13 Folder 6 Typescript by Lawrence Libater, 1972

Regarding a class project which Robinson, Reverend Robert R. Woods, St. Julian F. Devine, Herbert U. Fielding, and Robert Ford are interviewed on race relations in Charleston; housing conditions for Blacks; the Mayor Palmer Gaillard Administration; and the Democratic and Republican Parties.

Box 13 Folder 7 Campaign advertisements, newspaper clippings, letters, and flyers, 1972

Regarding Robinson's candidacy for the South Carolina House of Representatives. Includes Robinson's form letter for campaign financial support; letters of support from friends; and campaign results.

Box 13 Folder 8 Correspondence, signed petitions, and raffle ticket, 1974

Regarding Robinson's second bid for the South Carolina House of Representatives. Includes signed petitions to make Robinson eligible to run for House Seat #111 in the 1974 General Election; and letter of appeal to the South Carolina Office of the Attorney General.

Box 13 Folder 9 "Vote Robinson State House "Name tag and ribbons circa, 1972-1974

Box 13 Folder 10 U.S. Senatorial Campaign of Charles "Pug" Ravenel, Charleston, 1978

Includes biographical sketch, correspondence, memorandums, press releases, campaign reports and surveys, newsletters and handwritten notes n which Robinson worked as a field coordinator.

Box 13 Folder 11 Reverend Leonard A. Cunningham's candidacy, undated

Press release and handwritten notes for House Seat #111.

Box 13 Folder 12 Robinson's political associations correspondence, 1972-1985

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Includes letters from John C. Pracht, IV and Joseph P. Riley, Jr.

Box 13 Folder 13 Miscellaneous voting programs and materials, 1968-1980

Includes membership list from League of Women Voters and Robinson's participation in political program.

4.17 Church and Church-related

Box 13 Folder 14 Journal, 1955

By Robinson, regarding "Report on School of Missions," held at Mather Academy, Camden, South Carolina for the United Methodist Church.

Box 13 Folder 15 Minutes, memorandums, and manual 1968-1970 regarding "Program Council" in which Robinson was Secretary

Box 13 Folder 16 Statement of purpose, guidelines, correspondence, minutes, composite reports, conference itineraries, and programs, 1966-1972

Regarding Christian Social Concern, Board of the South Carolina Conference of the Methodist Church which Robinson chaired; and materials from Southeastern Jurisdictional Conferences.

Box 13 Folder 17 Seminar on Vietnam itinerary and roster, 1968

Co-sponsored by the United Methodist Church.

Box 13 Folder 18 European Study Seminar on Social Welfare, 1969-1970

Correspondence, brochure, and itinerary regarding Robinson's participation; co- sponsored by the United Methodist Church.

Box 13 Folder 19 Old Bethel United Methodist Church, in Charleston program booklet, church programs, and budget reports, 1969-1979

Includes 175th Anniversary of Old Bethel United Methodist Church.

Box 13 Folder 20 African Methodist Episcopal Church letter and directory, 1974 and undated

Includes thank you letter from Kay Nichols, Seventh Episcopal District, and directory of presiding elders and pastors.

Box 13 Folder 21 United and Black Methodist Women, 1975-1985

Includes By-Laws and Constitution, memorandums, newsletters, evaluation forms, conference program, and roster.

Box 13 Folder 22 Robinson's speeches for United Methodist Women conferences, 1982 and undated

Box 13 Folder 23 United Methodist Church typescripts, pamphlets, brochures and magazine, 1968 and undated

4.18 Volunteer, African American, and Women's related Organizations

Box 14 Folder 1 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People receipt book and typescript, 1954-1974

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Used by Robinson for ues; and typescript regarding the origins of the NAACP.

Box 14 Folder 2 Charleston Chapter of the NAACP, 1973-1978

Includes memorandums, newspaper clipping; register and vote campaign data sheet; and magazine The Crisis.

Box 14 Folder 3 Donation envelope circa and newsletter 1971-1972

For Operation PUSH (People United to Serve Humanity) and Project Black Land.

Box 14 Folder 4 Welfare Organizations, 1965-1972

Includes agenda and memorandum regarding South Carolina State Welfare Rights Organization; and booklet regarding welfare in Mississippi.

Box 14 Folder 5 Sigma Gamma Rho, 1972-1978

Memorandums, minutes, programs, handwritten notes and flyers regarding Robinson's sorority.

Box 14 Folder 6 Charleston School Board (District 20), 1975-1977

Includes memorandums, letters, programs, and published reports regarding education and human relations.

Box 14 Folder 7 American Bicentennial and the Afro-American Bicentennial Corporation newsletters and booklets, 1976

Box 14 Folder 8 Red Cross Volunteer policies information sheets and brochures, 1977

Box 14 Folder 9 Miscellaneous materials, 1967-1976

Includes conference agenda from National Council of Negro Women; conference roster of National Conference of Black Women.

Box 14 Folder 10 Miscellaneous programs, welcome letters, brochures and pamphlets, 1977-1978

From Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Charleston business associations, and Spartanburg, South Carolina.

Box 14 Folder 11 Avery Institute program on the Civil Rights Movement, 1982

Featuring Robinson as a presenter and moderator. 5. Booklets and Newspaper Clippings, 1960-1978

Box 14 Folder 12 Published essays 1960, undated regarding anthropology, Sierra Leone and northern Nigeria; and newsletter 1969-1970 regarding Native American view of American History

Box 14 Folder 13 Scattered photocopied newspaper clippings, 1964-1978, undated ; miscellaneous items 6. Audio Visual Materials, 1920-1970

Box 15 Folder 1 Dr. Lawrence D. from the Lecture series: "A Decade of Civil Rights History: 1960-1970: The Movement as Viewed by Participants, Loop College, Chicago"

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Includes reel-to-reel tape recording and cassette copy. Reddick's historic overview of the civil rights era.

Box 15 Folder 2 Rosa Parks and Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth from Lecture series: "A Decade of Civil Rights History: 1960-1970: The Movement as Viewed by Participants, Loop College, Chicago"

Reel-to-reel tape recording and cassette copy. Recording is barely audible and contains heavy traffic noise in the background. Parks's brief speech (fully transcribed) describes growing up in racially segregated Montgomery, Alabama; working with the NAACP; challenges regarding voter registration in the 1940s; Parks's 1955 encounter of refusing to give her seat to a white man; the bus boycott with support from the Montgomery Improvement Association, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Ralph Abernathy; and Parks's experience at the Highlander Folk School. Shuttlesworth's speech (with partial transcript) relates the creation of the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA); the 1956 Alabama legislature's decision outlawing the NAACP; bombing of his house; community involvement during the bus boycott in Birmingham, Alabama; 1957 confrontational mob scene with police at Terminal Station; wiretapping of telephone; and working with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as SCLC secretary.

Box 15 Folder 3 John Lewis and Guy Carawan from Lecture series: "A Decade of Civil Rights History: 1960-1970: The Movement as Viewed by Participants, Loop College, Chicago"

Reel-to-reel tape recording and cassette copy. Transcript of Lewis' speech is included. Lewis relates his early years growing up in Troy, Alabama; his feelings about the Montgomery bus boycott; attending college at American Baptist Seminary; his experience at Highlander; working in the civil rights struggle with Reverends C.P. Vivian, James Lawson, Kelly Miller Smith and Martin Luther King Sr. and Jr., the NAACP, Congress for Racial Equality (CORE); attending workshops for non-violence; his participation in Nashville department store lunch counter sit-ins in 1959, the Freedom Rides of the early 1960s; confrontation with Birmingham police and Bull Conner in 1961; experience in Mississippi and the Hinds County jail; working for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC); the March from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama for voters rights; becoming a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War; and a summary of the importance for the civil rights movement. Carawan's speech is barely audible due to muffled recording and traffic noise in the background. Includes the performance of freedom songs; "We Shall Over Come," and "Ain't You Got a Right to the Tree of Life." Carawan also mentions Johns Island and Moving Star Hall.

Box 15 Folder 4 Fannie Lou Hamer from Lecture series: "A Decade of Civil Rights History: 1960-1970: The Movement as Viewed by Participants, Loop College, Chicago"

Reel-to-reel tape recording and cassette copy. Transcript of Hamer's speech is included. Hamer focuses on the period of 1960-1970, relating her experience as a timekeeper on a Ruleville, Mississippi plantation; describing acts of resistance towards the plantation owner; gaining political awareness through her first mass meeting in 1962; her experience in taking a literacy test to obtain a voter registration card in Indianola, Mississippi, resulting in Hamer becoming a fugitive for several months; returning to Ruleville to become the first Black woman in Sunflower County to become registered to vote; the police harassment endured by Hamer and her family; the arrest of Hamer, Annelle Ponder, Southwide supervisor of SCLC and several others in Winona, Mississippi, and the severe jail cell beatings that ensued; organizing the Mississippi Democratic Freedom (MFDP) party in 1964; Hamer's 1964 trip to Africa; and her views on human rights, politics in the south, Vietnam, school integration, the importance of Black history.

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Box 15 Folder 5 Photographs: Robinson and family members, circa 1920-1940s.

Original photographs are located in Avery's photograph collection files. 7. Oversize Materials, 1968

Oversize Paper Folder Newspaper (1968) Soul force published by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference 1018/Plat Drawer

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