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Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture

 Organization

Found in 67 Collections and/or Records:

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

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

"Woman of the Year" Scrapbook, 1981

 File — Scrapbook 160
Scope and Contents

The Charleston Chapter of the Links' tribute to Whipper includes documents pertaining to the implementation of the Avery Research Center, the Governor's appointment to the South Carolina Advisory Committee, and Planning Committee for the First Governor's Conference on Equal Opportunity in Higher Education, along with additional and recognition for her civic and Links activities.

Dates: 1981