King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1929 January 15 - 1968 April 4
Occupations
Places
- Atlanta (Ga.) (Place of Birth)
- Memphis (Tenn.) (Place of Death)
- United States (Associated Country)
Languages Used
- English
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Jean Claude Bouffard Civil Rights Interviews
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1204
Abstract
The Jean Claude Bouffard Civil Rights interviews collection, 1982, contains five oral history interviews with Septima Clark, Mary Moultrie, and Bernice Robinson as well as recordings of lectures that Septima Clark and Thomas R. Waring, Jr. gave to Bouffard's College of Charleston class in the summer of 1982. Participants discuss a wide range of topics including their family history and upbringing, their involvement in the Civil Rights Movement and organizing, African American leaders during...
Dates:
1982
Septima P. Clark papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1000
Abstract
Septima Poinsette Clark (1898-1987) was born in Charleston, South Carolina to Peter Porcher Poinsette and Victoria Anderson. Clark attended small private schools and Avery Institute, getting a teacher's certificate in 1916. She married Nerie Clark (1889-1925) of North Carolina, a navy cook in 1920; they had one surviving child Nerie Clark, Jr. (born 1925). Clark received her BA from Benedict College in 1942 and an MA from Hampton Institute in 1946. She taught in various schools throughout...
Dates:
approximately 1910-1990
Eugene B. Sloan Civil Rights collection
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1210
Abstract
Eugene Blakely Sloan (1922-1969) was born in Clinton, South Carolina on February 22, 1922 to Janie Pressley Lindsay and Eugene Blakely Sloan. He attended Erskine College where he majored in history and served in the United State Army during World War II. Sloan was a writer, editor, photographer and award-winning journalist for The State newspaper and notable for his coverage of key moments of the civil rights era in South Carolina. His most renouned recording...
Dates:
1952-2019; Majority of material found within 1967-1970
Bernice Robinson papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1018
Abstract
Bernice Violanthe Robinson (1914-1994) was born in Charleston, South Carolina to James C. and Martha Elizabeth Robinson. She was a cosmetologist, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Secretary and Chairperson of Membership, Highlander's first Citizenship School teacher for adult education on John's Island, South Carolina. She held political education and voter registration workshops in Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, and other southern states for the...
Dates:
1920-1989; Majority of material found within 1950-1989
Cleveland L. Sellers, Jr. papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1017
Abstract
Cleveland Sellers, Jr. (born 1944), an African American from Denmark, South Carolina, was a participant and leader of a variety of student, civil rights, leftist, and Pan African movements in the 1960s and 1970s. Sellers alone was indicted and convicted for inciting a riot during the Orangeburg Massacre, in which three students of South Carolina State University died and many others were wounded; Sellers was later pardoned.The majority of the collection details Cleveland L....
Dates:
1934-2003