Dream Makers Foundation
We want to thank you for your interest and support in the development of the Dream Makers Scholarship Fund. The fund is intended to support and encourage higher education attainment of our state’s best and brightest college bound seniors living in the state’s rural areas. Our initial efforts will focus on the most financially depressed counties in the state.
Given Reverend I. DeQuincey Newman’s lifelong commitment to improve the overall wellbeing of families in rural South Carolina, we have decided that at this juncture of fund development to use all proceeds from the book published by the University of South Carolina Press that details Reverend Newman life and work: The Spirit of an Activist to launch this philanthropic effort. Your contribution provides a significant financial support to the scholarship fund. The Living the Dream booklet and "In Their Own Voices" will be sent as a gift with a donation of $25.00 or more.
Thank you for your ongoing encouragement and support of this important and very necessary project designed to support the educational needs of student of color.
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The Spirit of an Activist
The Spirit of an Activist chronicles the life and distinguished career of Isaiah DeQuincey Newman (1911–1985), a Protestant pastor, civil rights leader, and South Carolina statesman. Known as a tenacious advocate for racial equality, His leadership and dedication to peaceful change played an important role in the dismantling of segregation in South Carolina.
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The Living the Dream booklet highlights the presence of African Americans (students, faculty, staff, administrators and alumni) as a part of the University of South Carolina1873-1877 (The Reconstruction) and 1963-2001 (Reintegration).
Living the Dream BookLette
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In Their Own Voices Documentary
The ten African American women featured in the documentary have contributed to social change and have shaped lives in their communities, the state and the nation through ordinary acts of courage. The documentary captures a profile of each woman from early childhood to present. The ten honorees are: Mrs. Emily England Clyburn, native of Moncks Corner, SC, Mrs. Frances Davenport Finney, native of Newberry, SC, Dr. Barbara Williams Jenkins, native of Union, SC, Mrs. Carrie Allen McCray of Columbia, SC, Mrs. Anne Pauline Hinton Newman of Columbia, SC, Mrs. Hallie Bacote Perry, native of Timmonsville, SC, Mrs. Maude Ford Ross of Winnsboro, SC, Mrs. Margaret A. Thornton, of Columbia, SC, Dr. Clemmie Embly Webber, a native of St. Mathews, SC, Mrs. Esther Nell K. Glymph Witherspoon, a native of Gaffney, SC.