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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
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
John Roy Harper II papers
Collection
Identifier: SCL-MS-14uuu
Scope and Contents
Series:I. Personal papersII. Family papersIII. Topical filesIV. Audio-Visual materialsV. Ephemera and RealiaVII. OversizeVIII. LibraryPersonal papers include Harper’s political campaigns, correspondence with his family, friends, and acquaintances, greeting cards, invitations and programs for funerals, commencement ceremonies, and weddings, his education at Mather Academy, Fisk University, Harvard...
Dates:
1870-2003; Majority of material found within 1930 - 2003
Found in:
South Caroliniana Library
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
WIS-TV news collection
Collection
Identifier: COD0000005-ACC 1984-0001
Scope and Contents
This collection contains outtake footage shot by the news crews of Columbia, South Carolina's NBC affiliate from 1959 to 1980. It includes 16mm color and black and white films, both sound and silent, documenting people, events, and the political and cultural history of South Carolina. The collection also contains teleprompter scripts for broadcasts dating from 1963-1979.
Dates:
1959-1980
Found in:
Moving Image Research Collections (MIRC)
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- African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century. 2
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- African Americans -- Education -- Southern States. 2
- African Americans -- South Carolina. 2
- Legislators -- United States. 2
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- African American Presbyterians -- South Carolina. 1
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- Civil rights. 1
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- Columbia (S.C.) 1
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- Labor unions -- United States -- History -- 20th century. 1
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- Liquor laws -- United States. 1
- Motion picture journalism. 1
- Oral history. 1
- Orangeburg Massacre, Orangeburg, S.C., 1968. 1
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- Prisoners -- Legal status, laws, etc -- United States. 1
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- South Carolina -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950. 1
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- McNair, Robert E. (Robert Evander), 1923-2007 3
- West, John Carl, 1922-2004 3
- Simkins, Modjeska Monteith, 1899-1992 2
- Black on Nation 1
- Blacks United for Action 1
- Campbell, John T. 1
- Carter, Jimmy, 1924- 1
- Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina 1
- Connally, John Bowden, 1917-1993 1
- Cosmos Broadcasting Corporation 1
- Culbertson, John Bolt, 1908-1983 1
- Democratic Party (U.S.) 1
- Dennis, Rembert C. (Rembert Coney) 1
- Fisk University 1
- Grose, Philip G., 1938-2012 1
- Harper, John Roy, II, 1939-2003 1
- Harper, John Roy, Sr., 1911 - 1980 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
- Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 1
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 1
- Mather Academy (Camden, S.C.) 1
- McCray, John Henry, 1910-1987 1
- McGovern, George S. (George Stanley), 1922-2012 1
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. South Carolina State Conference 1
- Northminster Presbyterian Church (Columbia, S.C.) 1
- Operation PUSH (U.S.) 1
- Redfern II (James Redfern) 1
- Richland Soil and Water Conservation District (S.C.) 1
- Russell, Donald Stuart, 1906-1998 1
- Second Presbyterian Church (Camden, S.C.) 1
- Thurmond, Strom, 1902-2003 1
- United Citizens Party 1
- University of South Carolina 1
- University of South Carolina. School of Law 1
- Voter Education Project (Southern Regional Council) 1
- WIS-TV (Firm) 1
- Waring, Julius Waties, 1880-1968 1
- Wickenberg, Charles H., 1923- 1
- Williams, Arthur M. 1 + ∧ less
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