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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
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
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- African American Presbyterians -- South Carolina. 1
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- Black on Nation 1
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- Harper, John Roy, II, 1939-2003 1
- Harper, John Roy, Sr., 1911 - 1980 1
- Mather Academy (Camden, S.C.) 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
- Second Presbyterian Church (Camden, S.C.) 1
- Simkins, Andrew 1
- Simkins, Modjeska Monteith, 1899-1992 1
- Stuckey, J. Elspeth 1
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