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Robert T. Ashmore Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCU-SCPC-RTA
Collection Description
The Ashmore collection consists of 3.75 ft. of material, chiefly correspondence, speeches, and clippings of United States Congressman Robert T. Ashmore (1904-1989). Ashmore represented South Carolina’s 4th District in the United States House of Representatives between 1953 and 1969. Also included are records of his campaigns for office, 1935-1970, and work with the South Carolina Appalachian Council of Governments, 1970-1985.General correspondence includes both personal and...
Dates:
1914-2002
Found in:
South Carolina Political Collections
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
Democratic Party of South Carolina Records
Collection
Identifier: SCU-SCPC-DPSC
Abstract
The Democratic Party of South Carolina Records document the party's efforts at the local, state, and national levels. Headquartered in Columbia, the party's primary purposes are to promote the its interests throughout the state, provide campaign assistance to Democratic candidates for state and national office, and serve as a liaison with the national and local Democratic parties.
Dates:
1924 - 2016; Majority of material found within , 1966- 2008
Found in:
South Carolina Political Collections
Philip G. Grose Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCU-SCPC-PGG
Abstract
Philip Gibbs Grose, Jr., was a journalist, government administrator, speechwriter, public affairs aficionado, and author. Grose devoted his life to writing about and serving the government of South Carolina. Throughout his life, Grose’s words and actions documented South Carolina’s move to become a modern state, but his name and words were hidden behind the guise of a political journalist and government bureaucrat until late in his life when he became a published author. His papers span his...
Dates:
1966 - 2011
Found in:
South Carolina Political Collections
Isaiah DeQuincey Newman Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCU-SCPC-IDN
Abstract
DeQuincey Newman was a Methodist pastor, civil rights activist, and entrepreneur. A leading figure in the Civil Rights movement in South Carolina, he helped organize the Orangeburg branch of the NAACP in 1943, helped found the Progressive Democratic Party, and served the South Carolina NAACP as state field director from 1960 to 1969. From 1972 to 1974, he served as executive assistant to the Director of the S.C. Department of Social Services. From 1974 to 1981, he was Director of the...
Dates:
1929 - 2003
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
John Carl West Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCU-SCPC-JCW
Abstract
John West served his state and nation well as a soldier during World War II, as a member of the South Carolina Senate, 1955 to 1966, as Lieutenant Governor, 1967 to 1971, as Governor, 1971 to 1975, and as United States Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, 1977 to 1981. Returning from Saudi Arabia, West practiced law, lectured on government and the Middle East at the University of South Carolina, served as Chairman of the Board of the Seibels Bruce Insurance Company, and engaged in a number of...
Dates:
c. 1840s, c. 1857, 1905, 1924, 1938-2004
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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- West, John Carl, 1922-2004 4
- Culbertson, John Bolt, 1908-1983 3
- McNair, Robert E. (Robert Evander), 1923-2007 3
- Simkins, Modjeska Monteith, 1899-1992 3
- Ashmore, Robert T. (Robert Thomas), 1904-1989 1
- Ashmore, Willie Vance Linthicum 1
- Byrnes, James F. (James Francis), 1882-1972 1
- Campbell, John T. 1
- Carter, Jimmy, 1924- 1
- Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina 1
- Democratic Party (S.C.) 1
- Democratic Party (U.S.) 1
- Dennis, Rembert C. (Rembert Coney) 1
- Dent, Harry S. (Harry Shuler), 1930-2007 1
- Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005 1
- Earle, Willie, 1922-1947 1
- Fowler, Donald L. (Donald Lionel), 1935-2020 1
- Grose, Philip G., 1938-2012 1
- Hollings, Ernest F. (Ernest Frederick), 1922-2019 1
- Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978 1
- Jackson, Jesse, 1941- 1
- Johnston, Olin D. (Olin Dewitt), 1896-1965 1
- Mann, James R. (James Robert), 1920-2010 1
- McCray, John Henry, 1910-1987 1
- Morris, Earle E., Jr. 1
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 1
- Newman, I. DeQuincy, 1911-1985 1
- Ravenel, Charles Dufort, 1938- 1
- Sanders, Alex 1
- Simkins, Andrew 1
- Stuckey, J. Elspeth 1
- Timmerman, George Bell, 1912-1994 1
- United Methodist Church (U.S.) 1
- United Methodist Church (U.S.). South Carolina Conference 1
- Victory Savings Bank 1
- Waring, Julius Waties, 1880-1968 1
- Westmoreland, William C. (William Childs), 1914-2005 1
- White Oak Baptist Church (Greenville, S.C.) 1
- Wickenberg, Charles H., 1923- 1
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