Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Mary Miller collection
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1169
Scope and Contents
This collection was created and donated by Mary S. Miller and features records which she collected during her tenure on the Avery Institute for African American History and Culture administrative board. Although she held leadership roles on the AIAAHC board, much of this collection pertains to Miller's personal historical interests regarding Charleston and the Lowcountry.
Dates:
1879-2011; Majority of material found within 2000 - 2011
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