I. DeQuincey Newman (1911-1985)
Newman helped organize the Orangeburg branch of the NAACP in 1943, was a founding member of the Progressive Democratic Party, and served the South Carolina NAACP as vice-president, secretary and president. In 1983, at age 72, he was elected to the South Carolina Senate, becoming the first African American to serve in that body since Reconstruction. The Newman papers are available online. They consist of 2.5 linear feet of material, 1929-2003.