Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture
Organization
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Avery Board Sponsored Events: "Avery: The Spirit That Would Not Die: A History of Avery Normal Institute from 1865 to 1954", 1981
File — Box 146, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
Includes research typescripts, short version history booklet by Drs. Edmund Drago and Eugene Hunt, and program invitations.
Dates:
1981
Found in:
Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture
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AMN 1146, Lucille Simmons Whipper papers
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Series 5: Civic, Community, and Social Involvement
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5.6: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture
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5.6.1: Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture (ALAAHC): Board of Directors
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5.6.1.4: Workshops and Event Programs
"Charleston Workshop" Seeking and Identifying Black Historical Treasures, 4-5 February 1983
File — Box 146, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Holds the sub-series: Board of Directors Administrative Documents and Committees; Correspondence and Newsletters; Grant Proposals; Workshops and Event Programs; Avery Institute Alumni; and Various Research Documents. Also view the Charleston Chapter of the Links, "Woman of the Year," Oversize Box #160, for additional materials not included in this subseries.
Dates:
4-5 February 1983
Found in:
Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture
/
AMN 1146, Lucille Simmons Whipper papers
/
Series 5: Civic, Community, and Social Involvement
/
5.6: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture
/
5.6.1: Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture (ALAAHC): Board of Directors
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5.6.1.4: Workshops and Event Programs
Typescript: "Two-Hundred and Fifty Years of Afro-American Business in Charleston, South Carolina", bulk: undated
File — Box 146, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Contains documents collected in prepartation for the establishment of the Avery Research Center; a archive, small museum, and cultural center for public programming.
Dates:
Majority of material found in undated
Found in:
Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture
/
AMN 1146, Lucille Simmons Whipper papers
/
Series 5: Civic, Community, and Social Involvement
/
5.6: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture
/
5.6.1: Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture (ALAAHC): Board of Directors
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5.6.1.6: Various Research Documents
Typescripts of Avery Institute's and Avery Research Center's History, 1994-2000, and undated
File — Box 147, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
Includes newspaper and magazine articles.
Dates:
1994-2000, and undated
Found in:
Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture
/
AMN 1146, Lucille Simmons Whipper papers
/
Series 5: Civic, Community, and Social Involvement
/
5.6: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture
/
5.6.2: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture, College of Charleston
Lucille Simmons Whipper papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1146
Abstract
Lucille Simmons Whipper (1928-2021), an educator, guidance counselor, academic administrator, community, and religious leader and the first African-American woman to serve as an State of South Carolina House of Representatives in Charleston's District 109 (1986-1996). She exercised her activism with her graduating class at Avery Institute in their attempts to desegregate the College of Charleston in 1944. Decades later, Whipper was instrumental in working with the State of South Carolina and...
Dates:
1900-2016, undated