Avery Normal Institute
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Edmund Lee Drago collection
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1051
Abstract
Scholar, author, and history professor, Edmund Lee Drago began his teaching career at the College of Charleston in 1975. He is the author of "Initiative, Paternalism and Race Relations: Charleston's Avery Normal Institute" (1990), among other books. His research focus is 19th century U.S. History, African American and Charleston history, and the American Civil War and Reconstruction.
The Edmund Lee Drago Papers are organized in three series. The first consists of materials related to his...
Dates:
1784-2009, undated; Majority of material found in 1865-1991
Lucille Roper Edwards papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1143
Abstract
Lucille Roper Edwards (1924-) worked as an African-American elementary schoolteacher teaching second graders in the Miami, Florida area for forty-seven years. Originally from Cordesville, South Carolina, Roper Edwards attended the Berkeley Training School (Moncks Corner, 1938), and the Avery Normal Institute (1940-1942).The majority of the collection holds Roper Edwards' lesson plans written when she was a second grade teacher at Poinciana Park Elementary School, Dade County,...
Dates:
1942-1994, undated; Majority of material found within 1961-1985
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- African American women teachers -- Florida -- Miami 1
- African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Hospital Workers' Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1969 1
- Miami-Dade County (Fla.) 1
- Oral histories 1
- Photographs 1
- annual reports 1
- articles 1
- clippings files 1
- doctoral dissertations 1
- essays 1
- financial records 1
- interviews 1
- lesson plans 1
- manuscripts (documents) 1
- manuscripts for publication 1
- newspapers 1
- poetry 1
- reports 1
- school yearbooks 1
- typescripts 1
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