Avery Normal Institute
Organization
Found in 2 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
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- African American business enterprises 1
- African American churches -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African American elementary schools -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African American slaveholders 1
- African American women -- South Carolina -- Societies and clubs -- History 1
- African American women teachers -- 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 -- Social life and customs 1
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Societies, etc. 1
- Cemeteries -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 1
- Charleston Neck (S.C.) 1
- Enslaved persons -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Free African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Social conditions 1
- Free Black people 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
- Slave records -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Southern States -- Race relations 1
- Taxation -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Wills -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1 + ∧ less
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