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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
Marion H. Smoak Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCU-SCPC-MHS
Abstract
Marion H. Smoak helped form a viable Republican Party in South Carolina in the early 1960s through grassroots efforts and made history in 1966 when he became one of the first Republicans to serve in the South Carolina State Senate since Reconstruction. He graduated from The Citadel, served in WWII, taught at West Point, and served as a legislative liaison officer in D.C. He retired from military service in 1961 as Lieutenant Colonel. He served one term as State Senator and then worked with...
Dates:
1964 - 1968
Found in:
South Carolina Political Collections
South Carolina Coalition for the Equal Rights Amendment Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCU-SCPC-ERA
Abstract
Formed in January 1973, the Coalition was reorganized in 1975 as a public interest lobby to secure ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment to the federal constitution by South Carolina. The Coalition was co-funded by the League of Women Voters and the National Organization for Women and headed by Keller H. Barron as legislative coordinator to handle political strategy and Janet Wedlock as field coordinator to organize constituent lobbying. South Carolina is one of fifteen states that did...
Dates:
1963 - 1978
Found in:
South Carolina Political Collections
South Carolinians for Eisenhower Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCU-SCPC-IKE
Collection Description
The collection consists of the contents of a single unbound binder arranged in two folders. General papers include financial summaries of receipts and disbursements, August to November 1952, a list of Minutemen for Eisenhower, and a few clippings. Lists, compiled by county, document state and county committeemen, and volunteers.
Dates:
1952 - 1952
Found in:
South Carolina Political Collections
Floyd Davidson Spence Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCU-SCPC-FDS
Abstract
This large collection primarily documents Floyd Davidson Spence's tenure serving South Carolina's 2nd District in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1971-2001, where he chaired the Committee on National Security, later renamed the Committee on Armed Services (1995-2000). Spence served in the S.C. House of Representatives (Lexington County) from 1957-1962, when he announced he was leaving the Democratic Party and would run for Congress as a Republican, making him the first notable office...
Dates:
1928 - 2007
Found in:
South Carolina Political Collections
Robert M. "Robin" Tallon Jr. Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCU-SCPC-RMT
Scope and Contents
The collection chiefly consists of Tallon’s Congressional Papers, 1983 to 1992. It is arranged in the following series: Public Papers, Personal Papers, Speeches, Audio-Visual Records, and Clippings. Public Papers consists of two sub-series, South Carolina House of Representatives and U.S. House of Representatives. The South Carolina House of Representatives consists of a single folder concerning his 1981 to 1982 term. The U.S. House of Representatives sub-series, 1983 to 1992, is divided...
Dates:
1981-1992
Found in:
South Carolina Political Collections
Nick Andrew Theodore Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCU-SCPC-NAT
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of 6 linear feet of material arranged in five
series: Public, Personal, Speeches, Clippings, and Audiovisual.
The public papers focus on Theodore’s time in the General Assembly. The largest category of topical material is education. Materials of interest are the Education Finance Act, which Theodore helped write in his time as Chairman of the House Education and Public Works Committee, and the Education Improvement Act.
Personal papers are chiefly from his campaigns for...
Dates:
1960 - 1999
Found in:
South Carolina Political Collections
George Bell Timmerman, Jr. Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCU-SCPC-GBT
Abstract
George Bell Timmerman, Jr. served as governor of South Carolina from 1955 to 1959, leading the state during a period of growing racial strife. He served as lieutenant governor under both Strom Thurmond and Jimmy Byrnes, 1947-1955. In 1948, Timmerman was president of the state Democratic Convention and a delegate to the Democratic National Convention. On leaving office in 1959, he returned to his Lexington law practice and, in 1967, Timmerman was elected Judge for the 11th Circuit, holding...
Dates:
c.1904-1997
Found in:
South Carolina Political Collections
G. Thomas Turnipseed Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCU-SCPC-GTT
Scope and Contents
The collection series include Public, Personal, Clippings, Vertical File Materials, and Audiovisual totaling 8 linear feet.
Public papers document Turnipseed’s term in the State Senate, 1976 to 1980. The General folder includes correspondence from constituents and from other legislators. There are extensive materials related to “The People Are Coming” rally, April 17, 1977, at the South Carolina State House. The rally took place to call for reform of the...
Dates:
1952-2020
Found in:
South Carolina Political Collections
James M. Waddell, Jr. Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCU-SCPC-JAMW
Abstract
James Madison Waddell, Jr., represented Beaufort and Jasper Counties as a Democrat in the South Carolina General Assembly for over thirty-five years. He was particularly interested in coastal conservation issues, and was founder and chairman of the South Carolina Coastal Council (now the Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management). In 1992 he resigned from the Senate to serve as an appointee of Governor Carroll Campbell on the state Tax Commission
Dates:
1887-1918, 1935-2004
Found in:
South Carolina Political Collections
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