Avery Normal Institute
Organization
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Gracie B. Dobbins papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1075
Abstract
Gracie B. Dobbins (1905-2001) was an African American school teacher. She was born Gracie Lee Burns in 1905 and graduated Avery Institute in 1924 with a teaching certificate. She later married a Mr. Dobbins and taught at Minnie Hughes Elementary School on Yonges Island and possibly elsewhere. She served as Chairman of Annual Appeal of Dimes for the City Federation of Colored Women's Clubs in the 1960s. Dobbins died in Charleston in 2001.The collection contains materials related...
Dates:
1924-1986; Majority of material found within 1965-1986
Lucille Roper Edwards papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1143
Abstract
Lucille Roper Edwards (1924-) worked as an African-American elementary schoolteacher teaching second graders in the Miami, Florida area for forty-seven years. Originally from Cordesville, South Carolina, Roper Edwards attended the Berkeley Training School (Moncks Corner, 1938), and the Avery Normal Institute (1940-1942).The majority of the collection holds Roper Edwards' lesson plans written when she was a second grade teacher at Poinciana Park Elementary School, Dade County,...
Dates:
1942-1994, undated; Majority of material found within 1961-1985
Entre Nous Bridge Club papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1025
Abstract
The Entre Nous Bridge Club was founded May 27, 1924 in Charleston, South Carolina by sixteen women to play a card game known as Five Hundred. The group, with membership limited to sixteen, met monthly in members' homes. The club rotated officers yearly and hosted annual celebrations and special parties for their 40th, 50th, 60th, and 70th anniversaries. The club continues to this day (2006).The Entre Nous Bridge Club Papers (1924-1994) consist of minute books; official and financial records;...
Dates:
1924-1994
Julia Alston Gourdine papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1130
Abstract
Julia Waites Alston Gourdine (1923-2009), an African-American elementary school educator who worked in the Charleston County School District for thirty-five years. Alston Gourdine was also an integral Senior Trustee Board member of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church in Charleston, South Carolina. She married Robert H. Gourdine, Jr. in 1944, and they had one son, Robert H. Gourdine, III.The collection contains documents and photographs relating to Gourdine's...
Dates:
1880-2002; Majority of material found within 1950-1996
Phillis Wheatley Literary and Social Club papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1031
Abstract
The Phillis Wheatley Literary and Social Club was formed in 1916 under the direction of Jeannette Cox, wife of Avery Normal Institute principal Benjamin Cox. The club consisted of nineteen women members meeting to discuss literary works by such authors as W.E.B. DuBois, Carter G. Woodson and others. The club women also helped fulfill their mission to "lift as we climb" by taking an active role in Charleston's African American community by donating funds to such organizations as the YWCA,...
Dates:
1916-2011
Inez Richardson papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1161
Abstract
Inez A. Richardson, born in 1911, was the first licensed Black female barber in South Carolina. This collection concentrates primarily on Inez Richardson, however it also includes documents pertaining to the rest of the Richardson family. The collection documents Richardson’s involvement in the Rose of Sharon Tent, Southern District No. 4, from 1952 to 1984. The Rose of Sharon Tent was one of the Tents of the United Order of Tents, which is the only Christian Black women’s secret society....
Dates:
1951-1990
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
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- African American women -- South Carolina -- Societies and clubs -- Photographs 2
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 2
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Religion 2
- correspondence 2
- Adolescence 1
- Affirmative Action programs 1
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- African American churches -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Photographs 1
- African American elementary schools -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African American fraternal organizations 1
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- African American men 1
- African American photographers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African American political activists 1
- African American schools -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African American teachers -- Florida -- Miami 1
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- African American universities and colleges 1
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- African American women -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Intellectual life 1
- African American women -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Social life and customs 1
- African American women teachers -- Florida -- Miami 1
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- African American youth 1
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- African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century 1
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- African Americans -- Societies, etc. -- History 1
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- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
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- Associations, institutions, etc. -- African American membership 1
- Boards of directors 1
- Buildings -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
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- Charleston (S.C.) -- History 1
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- Family-owned business enterprises -- South Carolina 1
- Fraternal organizations -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Fraternal organizations -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Photographs 1
- High schools -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Hospital Workers' Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1969 1
- Hospital Workers' Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1969 -- Photographs 1
- Miami-Dade County (Fla.) 1
- Minorities -- Political activity 1
- School buildings -- South Carolina -- Photographs 1
- Sea Islands -- Photographs 1
- Social service -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- South Carolina -- History -- 1865- 1
- Women -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Societies and clubs 1
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- audiotapes 1
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- certificates 1
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