New Insights in the American Civil Rights Movement: South Carolina Council on Human Relations Records
South Carolina Council on Human Relations (SCCHR) played a key role in fostering better living and social conditions for African Americans and promoting racial harmony within South Carolina and the South generally.
Briggs v. Elliott
Comprised of special collections and archives from UofSC’s South Caroliniana Library and South Carolina Political Political Collections, South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Richland County Public Library, and the S.C. State Library, this digital collection provides a contextual glance into primary sources surrounding the legal case Briggs v. Elliott.
Moving Image Research Collections
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Civil Rights Films from Moving Image Research Collections
This curated collection brings together diverse archival footage documenting the Civil Rights movement.
Equality of Educational Opportunity
This report is submitted in response to Section 402 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Eugene Avery Adams Papers, 1892-1968
Papers documenting the life of a twentieth century AME minister and leader in the fields of education, civil rights, and business.
Fairfield High School Oral History Collection
The thirty-six interviewees in this collection describe community, family, educational experiences, and race relations in Winnsboro, Ridgeway, Simpson and surrounding areas of Fairfield County, South Carolina.
Isaiah DeQuincey Newman (1911-1985), Papers, 1929-2003
I. DeQuincey Newman was a Methodist pastor, activist, entrepreneur, and a leading figure in the Civil Rights movement in South Carolina.
John Henry McCray Papers, 1929-1989
This collection of manuscripts and photographs documents the life and work of journalist and politician John H. McCray (1910-1987).
Joseph A. De Laine Papers ca. 1918 – 2000
This core unit of three hundred fifty items covers chiefly the period from 1942, when Joseph Armstrong DeLaine submitted his annual report as secretary of the Clarendon County Citizen[s] Committee, to 1974, when he delivered an address entitled “History leading up to the U.S. Supreme Court’s Decision outlawing Segregation in Public Schools.”
Local Television Newsfilm Collections
The Local Television News Collections at Moving Image Research Collections (MIRC) comprise approximately 1.5 million feet of 16mm motion picture film outtakes dating from the late 1950s to the early 1980s, donated by several South Carolina television stations.
M. Hayes Mizell Papers
This digital collection consists chiefly of reports relating to implementation of school desegregation that were sent to M. Hayes Mizell in his role with the American Friends Service Committee, his own speeches and writings, and photographs.