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J. Mitchell Reames papers
Collection
Identifier: SCL-MS-11084
Scope and Contents
The papers of James Mitchell Reames (1920-1987) span the years 1907 through 1990. Included in the papers are correspondence, writings, reports, news clippings, scrapbooks, and audio tapes. Units of material in the collection reveal Reames's dedication to librarianship and Methodism in South Carolina, and the collection focuses principally upon these two lifelong commitments.
The primary focus of the collection is Reames's professional career as an academic librarian working in and for South...
Dates:
1907 - 1990
Found in:
South Caroliniana Library
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
William D. Workman, Jr. Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCU-SCPC-WDW
Abstract
William D. Workman, Jr. is best remembered for his pivotal role in the emergence of the Republican Party as a viable alternative to the Democratic Party in South Carolina. In 1962, when the Democrats were the dominant political power in the state, he made a serious bid for the U.S. Senate as a Republican. Although ultimately unsuccessful, Workman received enough votes to signal to others of like mind that a Republican could win a state-wide race. In his career as a journalist, he wrote for...
Dates:
1915 - 1997
Found in:
South Carolina Political Collections
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- United Methodist Church (U.S.) 2
- Byrnes, James F. (James Francis), 1882-1972 1
- Christian Action Council (Columbia, S.C.) 1
- Claflin College (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1
- Dabbs, James McBride, 1896-1970 1
- Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005 1
- Easterby, J. H. (James Harold), 1898-1960 1
- Finney, Ernest A., Jr. (Ernest Adolphus), 1931-2017 1
- Gittman, James Thornton 1
- Graham, Frank Porter, 1886-1972 1
- Hollings, Ernest F. (Ernest Frederick), 1922-2019 1
- Jackson, Rhett 1
- James, Weldon 1
- Martin, Arthur Morrison 1
- Morris, Earle E., Jr. 1
- Morris, Jack 1
- Murray, George W. (George Washington), 1853-1926 1
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 1
- Newman, I. DeQuincy, 1911-1985 1
- Outler, Albert C. (Albert Cook), 1908-1989 1
- Poole, Robert F. (Robert Franklin), 1893-1958 1
- Poteat, Edwin McNeill, 1892-1955 1
- Reames, J. Mitchell (James Mitchell), 1920-1987 1
- South Carolina Library Association 1
- Southwestern Library Association 1
- Spears, R. Wright (Robert Wright), 1912-2015 1
- Taylor, Eben 1
- Thomas family 1
- Thomas, Heber 1
- Thomas, Ruth Dorrill 1
- United Methodist Church (U.S.). South Carolina Conference 1
- Walker, Estellene P. 1
- Workman family 1
- Workman, Rhea Thomas 1
- Workman, Virginia W. 1
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