![]() In 1987, The Los Angeles Times newspaper published a half-page feature article about Clark, “She wrote the book on Civil Rights: Ready From Within,” as a result of her participation in Butler’s play this brought Clark to national attention. Clark spoke after each performance of Butler’s play, “Voices of a Sit-In,” which was performed at the Church in Ocean Park in Santa Monica, California during the spring of 19. Her total jail time from all these different events was about 40 days and nights with charges ranging from “Trespassing on Private Property,” “Loitering,” “Conspiracy to Obstruct Trade and Commerce,” to Florida’s “Ejection of Undesirable Guests” state statute.īutler also was a patron of Septima Poinsette Clark, founder of Citizenship Schools, during the last six years of her life. She is also featured in many television documentaries NBC “White Paper Series “SIT-IN” 1960, “Eyes On the Prize” a PBS series produced by Judith Richardson and many others.īutler was an original coordinator and participant the Nashville Sit-Ins, a founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), a coordinator of the 1961 Freedom Rides, a coordinator of voter education and registration drives, a participant in the 1960 Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) “Miami Summer” with James Farmer, an organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, and the Crisfield, Maryland Movement in December 1961. Butler is a contributor to the recently University of Illinois Press publication “Hands on the Freedom Plow:Women in SNCC 1959-1969” and was featured in David Halberstam”s book “The Children” (1998). Supervisor Yvonne Birthwaite Burke and Millicent Moore Hill for help in founding the museum. Museum at the Crenshaw High School in Los Angeles acknowleged Septima Poinsette Clark, Angeline Butler. Butler has received many awards and wide acclaim for her work in Civil Rights: 2011 A Freedom Rider 50 th Anniversary Conference and Reunion Award in Jackson Mississippi 2010 A Freedom Flame Award from the National Voting Rights Museum and the Selma Jubilee 2009 John Jay Republican Student Association Award The “Nashville Room”1 of the Davidson County Library “Oral History Project,” and the publication of her “ Music: A Scrapbook of Performer, Educator, and Civil Rights Activist Angeline Butler” on permenant exhibition in the Nashville Room The City of Nashville presented an award to her as a Sit-In organizer 1960 and in 1987 The Martin Luther King Jr. ![]() She is too a recording artist and sold over 500,000 units on CoBurt –MGM Records “Angeline Butler/Impressions.” ![]() Her credits are extensive in theatre and commercials, among them are Joseph Papp’s NY Public Theatre, Ireland’s Cork Opera House and Gaiety Theatre in “Jesus Christ Superstar” and a two minute commercial for Ultra Sheen on the “And Beautiful” TV Specials. She toured with “Johnny Carson In Concert” and worked with The late Great Duke Ellington and the Late Great Count Basie. Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show, Hugh Hefner’s Playboy After Dark, The Virginia Graham Show, and the ABC Dick Cavett hired Angeline with recurring performances. The 4H clubs taught Angeline the cooking and sewing arts and made her more aware of nature and the outdoor though Summer camp.Īngeline Butler’s singing and acting talents have taken thru a very successful career in television, theatre, and on recordings. Her parents had always noticed her very talented gifts and groomed them with piano lessons, dance lessons, speech competitions and by entering her in the 4- H Clubs. In addition, she studied acting at the Herbert Berghof School, the Gene Frankel Theatre Workshop, the Renata Mannhardt Theatre Foundation, the Roger Simon Studio, and was privately coached by Alice Spivak in New York City.Įarly in her life 1957, she was chosen to represent her state to the National Shriner’s Beauty Pageant in Philadelphia. Johnson High School (Columbia, SC), Hopkins High School (Hopkins, SC), Fisk University (Nashville, TN), Juilliard School of Music on scholarship (New York), University of California, Los Angeles, and Columbia University (New York) to complete a Master of Arts Degree in Music and Ethnomusicology. ![]() From this great beginning, Butler went to C.A. Butler was a farmer, a principal of the Crossroads Elementary School in Eastover, a mathematics teacher, a pastor of three churches and a community leader. Butler’s father was the principal of the Cross Roads Elementary School in Eastover, SC, and her mother taught the second grade. They promised to love, cherish and educate her as their first child and later gave birth to five girls: Mary Alice, Mettie Delores, Mildred Elaine, Aretha Louise, and Emma Margaret. Isaac Bartley Butler and wife Emma Harris Butler at three days old. Angeline Butler, born in Columbia, South Carolina, was received by Rev. ![]()
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