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Septima P. Clark Papers -- Inventory |
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Avery Manuscript Number 1000 |
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Biographical Papers |
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Typed resumes, brief outlines of life and accomplishments |
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Biographical Tribute by Dr. Alvin P. Anderson |
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Biographical Tribute by J. Herman Blake |
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Biographical Tribute by W. H. "Buck" Godfrey |
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"Reflections of Two Black Southern Women: Septima Clark & Ann Moody" by Kathleen Taylor. Mimeographs of typescripts |
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Scrapbook documenting Clark's life complied by Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. Laminated clippings, photos, photocopies of correspondence, etc. |
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Transcript of interview of Clark by Judy Barton, Martin L. King, Jr. Memorial Center; Charleston, SC, November 9, 1971. Photocopy of typescript with Clark's corrections. 80pp. Topics discussed include her parents, teaching on John's Island, SC; evolution of adult education programs; knowing Eartha Kitt in Columbia, SC; early NAACP work in Charleston and Columbia, SC; her work at Highlander; white Citizenship Councils, especially in Orangeburg, SC; her opinions of the personality and work of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Ralph David Abernathy; and management of Southern Christian Leader-ship Council being unfriendly to women. |
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Transcript of interview with Clark by Jacquelyn Hall for Southern Oral History Program. Charleston, SC, July 25 1976. With related correspondence. 109 pp.Topics include her segregated schooling in Charleston; her parents, including her father, raised on Joel Poinsett's plantation, with a mention of him possibly being on the ship Wanderer; her strict upbringing; courtship by Nerie David Clark; her religious beliefs; her despair at the death of her child; Judge and Mrs. J. Waties Waring, and their differences; NAACP in Charleston and Columbia; Edwin Harleston; Myles Horton; Rosa Parks; Stokely Carmichael; Dorothy Cotton; Ella Baker; losing her teaching job in 1956; work in the mSouthern Christian Leadership Conference; Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; conflicts between the Conference and the Student Non Violent Coordinating Committee; both group's unfriendly attitude to women; the 1969 Charleston hospital workers' strike; creating a credit union for teachers; conflicts between African American men and women; and lack of appreciation for her in Charleston. With many mentions of various other topics and events in her personal and professional life. |
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Transcript of interview with Clark by Eugene Walker for Southern Oral History Program; Atlanta, GA, 30 July 1976. 40 pp, 1 page missing. Interview focuses mostly on Southern Christian Leadership Conference, its programs transferred from the Highlander Center, and Clark's estimation of SCLC staff including Dorothy Cotton, Ella Baker, James Woods; Wyatt T. Walker, Hosea Williams, Jesse Jacksommmn, Andrew Young; and other civil rights workers such as Stokely Carmichael. She mentions government spying on activities at Highlander and its being shut down, comments on the movement's successes and failures, and testifies to Martin Luther King's true nonviolence. With references to the unfriendly attitudes towards women by SCLC staff (especially Ralph Abernathy), Martin Luther King's visit to Charleston in 1967, his giving away of his Nobel Prize money and experiences such as a Ku Klux Klan mob in Natchez, Miss. |
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Transcript of interview with Clark by Eliot Wigginton. She discusses how her father's non-violence made her docile and accepting; how Highlander changed her and allowed her to stand up against unjust laws. There is a lengthy discussion of responsibility of teachers to educate re injustice. Clark discusses her work on the Charleston County School Board and relates an anecdote re W.E.B. DuBois, among other things. 18 pp. photocopy. |
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Transcript of 1981 interview of Clark by Peter Wood. Topics include her childhood, parents, her memories of the WWI era race riot in Charleston, her work at Highlander, and with people such as Myles and Zilphia Horton, Bernice Robinson, Rosa Parks, Stokely Carmichael, Esau Jenkins, Andrew Young and Edwin Harleston; Citizenship Schools, the importance of music in such workshops, with a reference to "We Shall Overcome;" her work on the Charleston County School Board; the Charleston Hospital Workers' strike; religion; the fear of the black middle class in the civil rights era, her schooling at Avery and other related topics. |
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Transcript of undated interview of Clark by unidentified interviewer. Clark details her life chronologically, speaking of the difference between her mother and father, the effect of poverty on them, her childhood, the meaning of being a lady in her era, her schooling at Avery and elsewhere, her teaching career, membership in the NAACP, her husband and children, living with the Clarks in North Carolina, her work with the YWCA, Judge and Mrs. J. Waties Waring, work at Highlander Center, the transfer of Citizenship Schools to Southern Christian Leadership Conference, her work with Andrew Young, Martin Luther King, Jr., Dorothy Cotton, Ella Baker, and others there, SCLC's treatment of women, non-violence and her estimation of the current situation in Charleston and the country. Two transcripts, 30 pp and 39 pp. |
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Edited version of a transcript of interview, with no interviewer named; it deals mostly with Clark's segregated schooling and her teaching on John's Island, SC, with descriptions of poverty, disease, etc. With Clark's corrections; and one interviewer form. |
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Requests for information for biographical profiles of Septima Clark |
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Lists of Clark's awards and citations; handwritten and typed. |
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Clippings, correspondence, program and photocopies re Clark's receiving of the National Educational Association's H. Councill Trenholm Memorial Award (1976) |
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Correspondence and related matter re Clark's honorary degrees |
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Program and misc. re dedication (1988) of Septima P. Clark auditorium at College of Charleston |
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Various paper certificates and awards of merit (1965-1987) given to Clark; including Berkeley, CA school district resolution re Clark and Rosa Parks (see also 1000-20-6) |
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Charlotte, NC proclamation of Septima Clark Days (18 June 1979 & 21 March, 1985), latter signed by Mayor Harvey Gannt; and key to city of Lenoir, NC |
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Correspondence and misc. (1960, 1976-77) re Utility Club of NYC and its naming Clark 1960 "Woman of the Year" |
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Paul Harris Fellow certificate awarded to Septima Clark by Rotary Foundation |
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Metal plates (1975-1987, nd) removed from wooden plaques given to Clark in tribute for her various activities, gifts to the community, etc. |
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Newspaper clippings and photocopies, mostly 1970s & 80s, documenting Clark's life |
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Newspaper clippings and photocopies, mostly 1970s & 80s, documenting Clark's life |
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Misc. family papers, including invitations, letters, obits, etc. of Clark and Poinsette family members |
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Letters and forms re Clark's grandsons, David Clark and Eli Clark |
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Letters re various pension plans, and Septima Clark's problems with the plans |
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Clippings, program, etc. re Septima Clark's funeral, death and gravesite; with metal plaques removed from empty memorial funeral scrapbooks |
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Papers re death (1975) & estate of Susie L. V. Bailey, Septima Clark, executrix |
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Papers re death (1961) of Septima Clark's sister Ethel Poinsette Fouse and problems re settling the estate in New Jersey |
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Misc. legal letters re Henrietta St. house in Charleston; Clark's witnessing of a traffic accident, and helping someone with unethical loan company |
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Clark's Christmas holiday greetings (1962, 63, 65, 69, 71, 74, 76, 78, 82, 83, 85, nd) |
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Misc. lists of organizations and names (for greeting cards?), members of unknown class, schedules of appointments and things to do, mostly handwritten, undated |
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Misc. printed programs of events attended, including 1976 dedication of Denmark Vesey portrait in Charleston, funeral programs, and others |
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Photocopies of articles and recipes by writers other than Septima Clark |
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Mounted photocopies and exhibit label from a Septima Clark exhibit |
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