Activism
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Documenting the Arc Oral History Collection
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1168
Abstract
The Documenting the Arc Oral History Collection is a series of video oral history interviews conducted between fall 2021 and summer 2022 by Dr. Millicent Brown and Cedar Wolf Media using grant funds from the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation. The interviews document the experiences of activists, organizers, artists, clergy, journalists, and other community members who were members or affiliates of Black Lives Matter Charleston (2014-2018) and other local grassroots organizations in...
Dates:
2021-2022
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