Avery Normal Institute
Organization
Found in 7 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
Holloway family scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1065
Abstract
James Harrison Holloway, compiler of the family scrapbook, collected materials in the early twentieth century to preserve a record of his family’s legacy as free prominent African Americans in Charleston, South Carolina, from their arrival in the late eighteenth century. In the wake of Reconstruction and the dawn of Jim Crow, Holloway, whose vocations ranged between preacher, postmaster, and harness maker, sought to assert his family's legacy against the economic, social, and political...
Dates:
1776-1977, undated
Anna D. Kelly papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1083
Abstract
Anna D. Kelly (1913-2007) is known for her efforts to connect Lowcountry African Americans with the Highlander Folk School, most notably recruiting Septima Clark. A graduate of the Avery Normal Institute in Charleston, South Carolina, Kelly was a charter member of the Avery Institute of African American History and Culture. She then played a crucial role in establishment of the Avery Research Center.The collection includes personal papers and photographs related to Anna D. Kelly...
Dates:
1930s-1999
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
Miriam DeCosta Seabrook and Herbert U. Seabrook papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1094
Abstract
Miriam DeCosta Seabrook (1896-1992) was an African-American educator born in Charleston, South Carolina. In 1923, she married Dr. Herbert U. Seabrook (1884-1941), an African American physician who practiced medicine in Charleston. They had one son, Herbert U. Seabrook, Jr., who also became a physician.The collection includes correspondence, certificates, photographs, and other materials related to Miriam DeCosta Seabrook's education at Avery Institute and elsewhere, teaching...
Dates:
1882-1995
William Saxon Wilson papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1038
Abstract
The William Saxon Wilson papers mostly consists of business cards, invitations, event programs, broadsides, and various ephemera created in his business, The Sax Print Shop, which document social, church, educational, and other aspects of African-American life in Charleston, South Carolina.
Dates:
1913-1983; Majority of material found in 1920-1982
Filtered By
- Subject: African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History X
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- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 4
- African American churches -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 19th century 2
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 20th century 2
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Religion 2
- African American business enterprises 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 photographers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African American physicians -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African American slaveholders 1
- African American teachers -- 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 -- Social conditions -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century 1
- African Americans -- Societies, etc. -- Photographs 1
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Social conditions 1
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Social life and customs 1
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Societies, etc. 1
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Societies, etc. -- Photographs 1
- Buildings -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Cemeteries -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 1
- Charleston Neck (S.C.) 1
- Civil rights movements -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Civil rights workers -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 20th century 1
- Enslaved persons -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Fraternal organizations -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Fraternal organizations -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Photographs 1
- Free African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Social conditions 1
- Free Black people 1
- Hospital Workers' Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1969 1
- Hospital Workers' Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1969 -- Photographs 1
- Paper money -- Confederate States of America 1
- Racially mixed people -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Social conditions -- 19th century 1
- Real property -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- School buildings -- South Carolina -- Photographs 1
- Sea Islands -- Photographs 1
- Slave records -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Social service -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- South Carolina -- History -- 1865- 1
- Southern States -- Race relations 1
- Taxation -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Teachers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Wills -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Women -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Societies and clubs 1
- broadsides (notices) 1
- business cards 1
- invitations 1
- printed ephemera 1
- programs (documents) 1 + ∧ less
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