Robinson, Bernice, 1914-1994
Person
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Septima P. Clark papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1000
Abstract
Septima Poinsette Clark (1898-1987) was born in Charleston, South Carolina to Peter Porcher Poinsette and Victoria Anderson. Clark attended small private schools and Avery Institute, getting a teacher's certificate in 1916. She married Nerie Clark (1889-1925) of North Carolina, a navy cook in 1920; they had one surviving child Nerie Clark, Jr. (born 1925). Clark received her BA from Benedict College in 1942 and an MA from Hampton Institute in 1946. She taught in various schools throughout...
Dates:
approximately 1910-1990
Esther Kaplan Pivnick collection
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1138
Abstract
Esther Kaplan Pivnick (1913-2001), a former patternmaker from New York, retired on Johns Island, South Carolina in the mid-1970s. Along with historian Elizabeth "Betty" Stringfellow, she embarked on an ambitious project to write an inclusive history of Johns Island, (the largest Sea Island in South Carolina, approximately thirty miles south of Charleston), and incorporating the adjoining islands of Edisto, Wadmalaw, Kiawah and Seabrook. Their goal was to write a "peoples'...
Dates:
1663-2000, undated; Majority of material found within 1863-1999
Bernice Robinson papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1018
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...
Dates:
1920-1989; Majority of material found within 1950-1989
William Smyth audio collection
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1202
Abstract
The William Smyth audio collection, 1985-1994, contains ten oral histories, conducted by William Smyth, and eight music recordings. The oral history participants discuss life in the Charleston area during the 1950s with specific focus given to the Civil Rights Movement and segregation. The music recordings include Gullah Geechee artists from the Lowcountry such as Ron and Natalie Diase (Beaufort), the Brotherhood Gospel Singers (Mt. Pleasant), unidentified "Sea Island Singers," and a...
Dates:
1985-1994
Additional filters:
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- Education -- South Carolina -- Johns Island (Island) 3
- African Americans -- Education 2
- African Americans -- Politics and government -- 20th century 2
- Johns Island (S.C. : Island) -- Economic conditions 2
- African American cemeteries -- South Carolina 1
- African American churches -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African American churches -- South Carolina -- Johns Island (Island) 1
- African American families -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African American politicians 1
- African American teachers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African American women -- Social conditions 1
- African American women -- South Carolina -- Societies and clubs 1
- African American women teachers 1
- African Americans -- Civil rights 1
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 20th century 1
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- United States 1
- African Americans -- Music 1
- African Americans -- Sea Islands -- Social life and customs 1
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Segregation 1
- Charleston (S.C.) -- Race relations 1
- Civil rights -- Societies, etc. 1
- Civil rights demonstrations 1
- Civil rights movements -- Southern States 1
- Civil rights workers -- United States 1
- Daufuskie Island (S.C.) -- Social conditions 1
- Day care centers -- South Carolina -- Yonges Island 1
- Edisto Island (S.C.) -- History 1
- Education -- South Carolina -- Edisto Island 1
- Education -- South Carolina -- Wadmalaw Island 1
- Freed persons -- Education -- South Carolina 1
- Functional literacy -- United States 1
- Geechees -- South Carolina -- Social life and customs 1
- Gullahs -- South Carolina -- Social life and customs 1
- Hospital Workers' Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1969 1
- Johns Island (S.C. : Island) -- History -- 19th century 1
- Kiawah Island (S.C.) -- History 1
- Literacy -- South Carolina -- History 1
- Oral histories 1
- Political action committees -- South Carolina 1
- Seabrook Island (S.C.) -- History 1
- Segregation in education -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- South Carolina -- History 1
- South Carolina -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century 1
- South Carolina -- Social conditions -- 19th century 1
- Southern States -- Race relations 1
- Spirituals (Songs) 1
- Voter registration -- Southern States 1
- Wadmalaw Island (S.C.) -- History 1
- audiocassettes 1