Avery Normal Institute
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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
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
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- African American fraternal organizations -- 20th century -- Photographs 1
- African American fraternal organizations -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African American photographers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African American women -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Intellectual life 1
- African American women -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Social life and customs 1
- African American women -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Societies and clubs 1
- African American women -- South Carolina -- Societies and clubs 1
- African American women -- South Carolina -- Societies and clubs -- History 1
- African American women -- South Carolina -- Societies and clubs -- Photographs 1
- African American women teachers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- History 1
- African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century 1
- African Americans -- Societies, etc. -- Photographs 1
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 19th century 1
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 20th century 1
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- Buildings -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
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- Hospital Workers' Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1969 1
- Hospital Workers' Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1969 -- Photographs 1
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