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Box 16

 Container

Staff Only

Contains 32 Results:

Polaris, 1966

 File — Box: 16, Folder: 22
Scope and Contents

Materials include a history and fact sheet of the Polaris Fleet Ballistic Missile Weapon System Development Program.

Dates: 1966
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / J. Arthur and MaeDe Brown papers / 7: AMN 1074-01 / 7.7. Miscellaneous

Pre-Bicentennial Decade Committee, 1958

 File — Box: 16, Folder: 23
Scope and Contents

Materials include a memorial program.

Dates: 1958
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / J. Arthur and MaeDe Brown papers / 7: AMN 1074-01 / 7.7. Miscellaneous

The South Carolina Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights, 1966

 File — Box: 16, Folder: 24
Scope and Contents

Materials include an annotated program from the Conference on Education Desegregation, the Advisory Committee’s staff paper titled “Federal Rights Under School Desegregation Law”, and an outline of acceptable court orders and voluntary desegregations plans for public school systems in South Carolina.

Dates: 1966
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / J. Arthur and MaeDe Brown papers / 7: AMN 1074-01 / 7.7. Miscellaneous

Supreme Liberty Life Insurance Company, 1951

 File — Box: 16, Folder: 26
Scope and Contents

Materials include a 30th anniversary card for the company.

Dates: 1951
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / J. Arthur and MaeDe Brown papers / 7: AMN 1074-01 / 7.7. Miscellaneous

Unveiling of the Portrait of the Late Reverend Daniel Joseph Jenkins, 1985

 File — Box: 16, Folder: 27
Scope and Contents

Materials include the program and the City Council resolution for the portrait.

Dates: 1985
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / J. Arthur and MaeDe Brown papers / 7: AMN 1074-01 / 7.7. Miscellaneous

Washington Post, 1965

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

Materials include January 20th and January 21st, 1965 issues of the Washington Post documenting the inauguration of Lyndon B. Johnson which J. Arthur and MaeDe attended.

Dates: 1965
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / J. Arthur and MaeDe Brown papers / 7: AMN 1074-01 / 7.7. Miscellaneous

War Ration Book, 1943

 File — Box: 16, Folder: 28
Collection Overview From the Collection: Statement on Harmful Materials and Language: Users will find harmful language describing people with developmental and intellectual disabilities in this collection. This language is intentionally retained to honestly and accurately reflect prejudice found in this collection and how movements have evolved, even as we recognize that encountering harmful or offensive language can be difficult or painful. The J. Arthur and MaeDe Brown Papers are divided...
Dates: 1943
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / J. Arthur and MaeDe Brown papers / 7: AMN 1074-01 / 7.7. Miscellaneous

Bennett College, 1963

 File — Box: 16, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

Materials include a May, 1963 Bennett College Bulletin and paper door hangers from a voter registration drive held on campus.

Dates: 1963
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / J. Arthur and MaeDe Brown papers / 7: AMN 1074-01 / 7.7. Miscellaneous

Brown Fellowship Society Miscellaneous Facts and Hunt, Eugene C. Oral History, 1973

 File — Box: 16, Folder: 30
Scope and Contents Side A of the cassette includes an unidentified woman reading miscellaneous facts about the Brown Fellowship Society from minutes of the organization's meetings. Side B includes an oral history with Eugene C. Hunt conducted by the same unidentified woman. No consent forms for this oral history were included in the donation of these materials. Mr. Hunt discusses Charleston churches, including Mt. Zion and St. Mark's; his education at the Avery Normal Institute and the role of music at the...
Dates: 1973
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / J. Arthur and MaeDe Brown papers / 7: AMN 1074-01 / 7.8. Audio Materials

Duncan, Lawrence Oral History, 1973

 File — Box: 16, Folder: 31
Scope and Contents An oral history conducted by an unidentified woman with Lawrence Duncan, an African American and North Charlestonian. No consent forms for this oral history were included in the donation. Mr. Duncan discusses his early childhood and education at 7 Mile Schoolhouse from the ages 6-12, his work on the railroad and at a bank. He also discusses his family history including his mom, Josephine Gadson (ne. Mitchell), born in 1887, and his maternal grandparents, Simon and Donna Mitchell, who lived...
Dates: 1973
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / J. Arthur and MaeDe Brown papers / 7: AMN 1074-01 / 7.8. Audio Materials
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