Avery Normal Institute
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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Craft and Crum families papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1102
Abstract
William Craft (1824-1900) and Ellen Smith Craft (1826-1891) were slaves who met on a plantation in Macon, Georgia. Unwilling to raise children in slavery, in December 1848 they devised a plan to escape to Philadephia, Pennsylvania. Ellen dressed as an invalid male, her arm in a sling to avoid writing (neither William nor Ellen could read or write) and face in bandages to obscure her feminine voice and lack of facial hair. William accompanied her as a servant. They arrived in Philadelphia on...
Dates:
1780-2007
Graves family papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1081
Abstract
The Graves family of Charleston, South Carolina, was an African American family consisting largely of educators and Avery Institute graduates. James R. B. Graves, Jr. (1883-1969), a Pullman porter and union member of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, married Rose Laura Winds (1890-1978) in 1915. Together, they raised five children: J. Michael, Pauline, Annette, Robert, and Eugene. J. Michael Graves (1915-1996), a Class of 1932 graduate of the Avery Institute, was an educator and...
Dates:
1884-2004
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- Abolitionists -- Massachusetts -- Boston 1
- Abolitionists -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
- Abolitionists -- United States -- History -- 19th century 1
- African American educators -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African American educators -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Photographs 1
- African American physicians -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century 1
- African Americans -- Photographs 1
- African Americans -- Social conditions 1
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Societies, etc. 1
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Politics and government -- 20th century 1
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Social conditions -- 19th century 1
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Social conditions -- 20th century 1
- Ambassadors -- Liberia 1
- Educators -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Enslaved persons -- Georgia 1
- Free African Americans -- Social conditions 1
- Free African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Societies, etc. 1
- Fugitive slave law (1850) 1
- Fugitive slaves -- United States 1
- High schools -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Plantations -- Georgia 1
- Porters -- Labor unions -- United States -- History 1
- Public schools -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century 1
- Pullman porters -- Photographs 1
- Pullman porters -- United States -- History 1
- Racially mixed people -- United States -- History -- 19th century 1
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