Avery Normal Institute
Organization
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
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
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
Filtered By
- Subject: African American women -- South Carolina -- Societies and clubs X
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- African American women -- South Carolina -- Societies and clubs -- History 3
- African American churches -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
- African American women -- South Carolina -- Societies and clubs 2
- African American women -- South Carolina -- Societies and clubs -- Photographs 2
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Religion 2
- Adolescence 1
- Affirmative Action programs 1
- African American History Month 1
- African American churches 1
- African American churches -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Photographs 1
- African American elementary schools -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African American fraternal organizations 1
- African American fraternal organizations -- 20th century -- Photographs 1
- African American fraternal organizations -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African American men 1
- African American photographers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African American universities and colleges 1
- African American women teachers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African American youth 1
- African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- History 1
- African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century 1
- African Americans -- Periodicals 1
- African Americans -- Politics and government -- 20th century 1
- African Americans -- Societies, etc. -- History 1
- African Americans -- Societies, etc. -- Photographs 1
- African Americans -- South Carolina 1
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 1
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 19th century 1
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 20th century 1
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Social conditions 1
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Societies, etc. -- Photographs 1
- Associations, institutions, etc. -- African American membership 1
- Boards of directors 1
- Buildings -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Card games 1
- Charleston (S.C.) -- History 1
- Charleston (S.C.) -- Race relations 1
- Charleston County (S.C.) 1
- Child care 1
- Children 1
- Church buildings 1
- Church music 1
- Fraternal organizations -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Fraternal organizations -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Photographs 1
- Hospital Workers' Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1969 1
- Hospital Workers' Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1969 -- Photographs 1
- School buildings -- South Carolina -- Photographs 1
- Sea Islands -- Photographs 1
- administrative records 1
- audiotapes 1
- awards 1
- booklets 1
- brochures 1
- bylaws (administrative records) 1
- certificates 1
- correspondence 1 + ∧ less
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