Avery Normal Institute
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
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
Edward A. Lawrence family papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1024
Abstract
Edward Lawrence was born in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1858. He graduated from Avery Normal Institute in 1875. He taught at the Avery Normal Institute for almost 20 years and served as interim principal, as well as serving as president of the Avery Alumni Association. He also obtained a degree from South Carolina State College, where he taught psychology and sociology. Lawrence worked as a real-estate agent in Charleston before moving to Brooklyn, New York, in 1920, where he ran a real...
Dates:
1875-1983
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- Subject: Real property -- South Carolina -- Charleston X
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- African American business enterprises 1
- African American slaveholders 1
- African American teachers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 19th century 1
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Religion 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 estate agents 1
- Slave records -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Southern States -- Race relations 1
- Taxation -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Wills -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- correspondence 1 + ∧ less
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