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John Bolt Culbertson Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCU-SCPC-JBC
Abstract
John Bolt Culbertson, lawyer and activist, was a "liberal lion" of South Carolina's Upstate for most of the twentieth century, establishing a law practice in which he represented unions, the working class, disabled veterans, African-Americans, and others in need of a voice—many of whom could not afford to pay him. His outspokenness and his political leanings, atypical for South Carolina at that time, resulted in financial setbacks, insults, and even crosses burned on his lawn, but Culbertson...
Dates:
circa 1886 - 2012
Found in:
South Carolina Political Collections
Martha Monteith Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCU-SCPC-MEM
Overview
Martha Cunningham Monteith was the first trained speech therapist employed by the South Carolina public school system, establishing the inaugural program at Richland County District 1 in 1949. She worked to secure state funding for speech and hearing services throughout SC public schools. While teaching at South Carolina State University (c. 1954-1962), she helped estabish its department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, and in 1966 helped launch a Speech Pathology and Audiology graduate...
Dates:
1938 - 2019
Found in:
South Carolina Political Collections
Modjeska Monteith Simkins Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCU-SCPC-MMS
Abstract
A Columbia civil rights activist, Simkins served as the South Carolina State Secretary for the NAACP, 1941-1957. She also had leadership roles in the renovation of Good Samaritan-Waverly Hospital and the Richland County Citizens Committee. Simkins was a founder, in 1921, of the Victory Savings Bank of Columbia. Now called South Carolina Community Bank, it survives as one of the oldest African-American owned banks in the country. As a voice of African-American leadership in the South, Simkins...
Dates:
1909 - 1992
Found in:
South Carolina Political Collections
Charles H. Wickenberg, Jr. and Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCU-SCPC-CHW
Abstract
Charles H. Wickenberg, Jr. enjoyed a distinguished forty-year career as a journalist, chiefly with The State newspaper in Columbia, S.C. He served in the Marine Corps in both World War II and the Korean War, and subsequently as Gov. George Bell Timmerman's Executive Secretary from 1955 to 1958. In 1970, Wickenberg and 59 other journalists accompanied H. Ross Perot to Vietnam in his effort to negotiate for the release of American POWs. The collection also contains papers concerning the...
Dates:
c. 1835-2004
Found in:
South Carolina Political Collections
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- African Methodist Episcopal Church 1
- Campbell, John T. 1
- Culbertson, John Bolt, 1908-1983 1
- Dennis, Rembert C. (Rembert Coney) 1
- Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978 1
- Jackson, Jesse, 1941- 1
- Johnston, Olin D. (Olin Dewitt), 1896-1965 1
- McCray, John Henry, 1910-1987 1
- Monteith, Martha 1
- Simkins, Andrew 1
- Stuckey, J. Elspeth 1
- Victory Savings Bank 1
- Waring, Julius Waties, 1880-1968 1
- West, John Carl, 1922-2004 1
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