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Schaffer, Alan

 Person

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Alan Schaffer Collection of F.B.I. Files Relating to the Lynching of Willie Earle

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Mss-0156
Scope and Contents The collection consists of photocopies of correspondence, memoranda, clippings, teletypes/telegrams, excerpts from the book The F.B.I. Story (by Don Whitehead, 1956) and the New Yorker (June 14, 1947), lab reports and an investigative report concerning the Willie Earle lynching and the F.B.I.'s involvement in the case. Also includes deleted page information sheets. Some of this material is sanitized, with the section of Freedom of Information and Privacy Act permitting sanitization often...
Dates: 1947 - 1988; 1947 - 1947

Clemson Chronology Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Mss-0296
Scope and Contents

On index cards are listed the date, a short synopsis of the event, and usually some citation. Dr. Schaffer may have used this information when preparing his pictorial history of Clemson, Visions: Clemson's Yesteryears, 1880s-1960s.

Dates: 1987 - 1988

College of Liberal Arts Departmental Records

 Collection
Identifier: Series-0081
Abstract

This series contains some of the material/records produced by the College of Liberal Arts.

Dates: 1970 - 1987; 1982 - 1987

Department of History Records

 Collection
Identifier: Series-0068
Scope and Content Note This series contains the records of the History Department at Clemson University. The bulk of the materials are from 1974-1986, with a small amount dating from 1956. The collection contains correspondence (general and specific faculty), departmental memoranda, committee minutes, and information about courses, committees and other administrative matters.Material about courses and booklists reveals the intellectual changes that occurred from the mid-1970's through the mid-1980's....
Dates: 1956 - 1986; 1974 - 1986

Visions Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss-0127
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of positives, negatives and slides that depict the history of Clemson University. There are about 1200 prints, about 1150 negatives and 1200 slides with images that span the period from 1880s to 1960s.

Dates: 1880s-1960s

Women Themselves: Women’s History Sketches for a Radio Series

 Collection
Identifier: Mss-0283
Abstract

"Women Themselves" was a series of 26 half hour radio programs produced and broadcast by WEPR, a national pubic radio station located in Greenville, South Carolina. The project was jointly sponsored by WEPR and Alan Schaffer of the Department of History at Clemson University.

Dates: 1979 - 1980; 1979 - 1979
Subject
African Americans -- Crimes against. 1
American prose literature -- Women authors 1
Antislavery movements -- History -- 19th century. -- United States 1
Audiocassettes. 1
Chronologies (lists) 1