Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture
Organization
Found in 71 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence, 1988 - 1989
File — Box 145, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Contains The Bulletin Newsletter published by the Avery Institute Board.
Dates:
1988 - 1989
Found in:
Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture
/
Lucille Simmons Whipper papers
/
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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5.6.1.2: Correspondence and Newsletters
Correspondence, 1990
File — Box 145, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Contains The Bulletin Newsletter published by the Avery Institute Board.
Dates:
1990
Found in:
Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture
/
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
/
5.6.1.2: Correspondence and Newsletters
Correspondence, 1991 - 1993
File — Box 145, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Contains The Bulletin Newsletter published by the Avery Institute Board.
Dates:
1991 - 1993
Found in:
Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture
/
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
/
5.6.1.2: Correspondence and Newsletters
Correspondence, 1994 - 1995
File — Box 145, Folder: 17
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Contains The Bulletin Newsletter published by the Avery Institute Board.
Dates:
1994 - 1995
Found in:
Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture
/
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
/
5.6.1.2: Correspondence and Newsletters
Correspondence, 2005 - 2011
File — Box 145, Folder: 18
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Contains The Bulletin Newsletter published by the Avery Institute Board.
Dates:
2005 - 2011
Found in:
Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture
/
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
/
5.6.1.2: Correspondence and Newsletters
Correspondence and newspaper articles, 1985 - 1987
File — Box 145, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Contains The Bulletin Newsletter published by the Avery Institute Board.
Dates:
1985 - 1987
Found in:
Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture
/
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
/
5.6.1.2: Correspondence and Newsletters
Director's Cut Oral History Project
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1209
Abstract
The Director's Cut Oral History Project is a series of six video oral history interviews recorded in 2025 with current and former living directors of the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture. Participants discuss a wide variety of topics including their professional lives, what brought them to Avery, accomplishments and challenges from their tenure, the role the Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture and Averyites from the Avery Normal Institute played...
Dates:
2025
Edmund Lee Drago collection
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1051
Abstract
Scholar, author, and history professor, Edmund Lee Drago began his teaching career at the College of Charleston in 1975. He is the author of "Initiative, Paternalism and Race Relations: Charleston's Avery Normal Institute" (1990), among other books. His research focus is 19th century U.S. History, African American and Charleston history, and the American Civil War and Reconstruction.
The Edmund Lee Drago Papers are organized in three series. The first consists of materials related to his...
Dates:
1784-2009, undated; Majority of material found in 1865-1991
Essays on Various African American Centers and Genealogy, 1979, and undated
File — Box 146, Folder: 10
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:
1979, and undated
Found in:
Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture
/
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
Executive Board: Correspondence, 1979 - 1981
File — Box 145, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Contains The Bulletin Newsletter published by the Avery Institute Board.
Dates:
1979 - 1981
Found in:
Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture
/
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
/
5.6.1.2: Correspondence and Newsletters