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Martha Schofield Scholarship Fund
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-048
Overview
This small collection contains papers relating to the Martha Schofield Scholarship Fund, named after Quaker educator Martha Schofield, and restricted to students from Aiken County, South Carolina.
Dates:
1975-1980
Martha Schofield Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-134
Overview
Martha Schofield (1839-1916) was a Hicksite Quaker teacher from Pennsylvania who founded the Schofield Normal and Industrial School in Aiken, S. C., in 1868 to provide education for formerly enslaved people. The School gradually evolved into a boarding school for training young blacks in industrial trades or to become teachers. It was absorbed into the public school system in 1952. Martha Fell Schofield was born Feb. 1, 1839, near Newtown, Bucks County, PA. She was the daughter of Oliver W....
Dates:
1853-1944 (bulk 1856-1916)
Schofield Normal and Industrial School (Aiken, S.C.) Records
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-060
Overview
The Schofield Normal and Industrial School was founded in 1868 by Martha Schofield (1839-1916), a Pennsylvania Quaker. Her intention initially was to provide education for formerly enslaved people. The School gradually evolved into a boarding school for training young blacks in industrial trades or to become teachers. It was absorbed into the public school system in 1952. The collection contains minutes of the board of trustees (1886-1942), legal documents, financial records, correspondence and...
Dates:
1870-1957
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- African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina 2
- Aiken (S.C.) -- Social conditions -- History -- 19th century 2
- Education -- South Carolina 2
- Education -- South Carolina -- Aiken 2
- Freedmen -- Education -- South Carolina 2
- Quakers -- Social life and customs 2
- Quakers -- South Carolina 2
- Society of Friends -- Charities 2
- Society of Friends -- Education 2
- African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- Aiken 1
- African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- History -- 19th century 1
- African Americans -- South Carolina 1
- African Americans -- Vocational education -- South Carolina 1
- Anti-fascist movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Boarding Schools -- South Carolina 1
- Johns Island (S.C.) -- History -- 19th century 1
- Missionaries -- South Carolina -- History -- 19th century 1
- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- Europe -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Quaker women -- Education 1
- Quakers -- Diaries 1
- Quakers -- South Carolina -- History -- 19th century 1
- Reconstruction -- South Carolina 1
- Saint Helena Island (S.C.) -- History -- 19th Century 1
- Schools -- South Carolina 1
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- Sea Islands -- Social conditions -- 19th century 1
- South Carolina -- Social conditions -- 19th century 1
- Teachers colleges -- South Carolina 1
- Trade schools -- South Carolina 1
- Vocational education -- South Carolina 1
- Wadmalaw Island (S.C.) -- History -- 19th century 1
- War resistance movements -- History -- Sources 1
- Women -- South Carolina -- Diaries 1
- Women missionaries -- South Carolina -- History -- 19th century 1
- Women social workers -- South Carolina 1 ∧ less
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- Schofield Normal and Industrial School (Aiken, S.C.) 2
- Schofield, Martha 2
- American League against War and Fascism 1
- American League for Peace and Democracy 1
- American Peace Society 1
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