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Avery Normal Institute

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Found in 37 Collections and/or Records:

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

Smith Atkins family papers

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1142
Abstract The Smith Atkins family members included in this collection are William Henry Smith (1865-1941), his wife Anna Priscilla McLeish Smith (1870-1940), her father, James Wilkinson McLeish (1839-1897), and William and Anna's daughter, Maude Henrietta Smith Atkins (1898-1998). The bulk of the collection is comprised of materials created or collected by Maude Smith Atkins, as an Avery Normal Institute student, and as an organist. Smith Atkins co-authored "The Avery Song," in which the Library of...
Dates: 1877-1981, undated; Majority of material found within 1900-1950

Sterrett-Hodge family papers

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1060
Abstract Bascom Franklin Hodge (1898-1978), a WWI veteran and WWII Tuskegee Airman, was the grandson of Reverend Norman Bascom Sterrett (1841-1921), founder and pastor of Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, S.C. Hodge was born in New York, the son of Gertrude Minerva Sterrett (1866-1946) and her husband Leander Watson Hodge (1861-1934). He attended the Charles Reynaud School for Embalming and embarked in the funeral home business with his mother and cousin, Norman B. Sterrett, Jr. (1879-1944), an...
Dates: 1886-1978

Lucille Simmons Whipper papers

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1146
Abstract Lucille Simmons Whipper (1928-2021), an educator, guidance counselor, academic administrator, community, and religious leader and the first African-American woman to serve as an State of South Carolina House of Representatives in Charleston's District 109 (1986-1996). She exercised her activism with her graduating class at Avery Institute in their attempts to desegregate the College of Charleston in 1944. Decades later, Whipper was instrumental in working with the State of South Carolina and...
Dates: 1900-2016, undated

Edwina Harleston Whitlock papers

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1120
Abstract Edwina Augusta Harleston Whitlock was born Gussie Louise Harleston on September 28, 1916 in Charleston, South Carolina, to Robert Othello Harleston and his wife, Marie Isabelle Forrest. She was raised by her uncle, Edwin Augustus Teddy Harleston and his wife Elise Forrest after it was discovered that Whitlock's parents had tuberculosis. Whitlock attended the Avery Normal Institute in Charleston, South Carolina, and Talladega College in Talladega, Alabama, where she...
Dates: 1918-2006

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

Lillian Ransier Wright papers collection

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1042
Abstract Compilation of the Ransier and Wright family history and contribution to the advancement of African-American community. The collection focuses on the contributions of Alonzo Jacob Ransier in the reconstruction era being a congressman and Lt. Gov. of SC. He was also Lillian Ransier Wright’s father. Lillian Ransier Wright was a graduate of the Avery Normal Institute and was teacher by profession and was involved in St. Mark’s Episcopal Church whereas her husband William G. Wright taught...
Dates: 1924-1995

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Subject
African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- Charleston 6
African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century 5
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston 5
correspondence 5
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 4
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African American teachers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 3
African American women -- South Carolina -- Societies and clubs -- History 3
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Religion 3
programs (documents) 3
African American children -- Education -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
African American churches -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
African American educators -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
African American educators -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Photographs 2
African American fraternal organizations 2
African American high school students -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
African American newspapers 2
African American physicians -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
African American school principals -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
African American teenagers -- Education -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
African American women -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Societies and clubs 2
African American women -- South Carolina -- Societies and clubs 2
African American women -- South Carolina -- Societies and clubs -- Photographs 2
African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- History 2
African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- Mount Pleasant 2
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 19th century 2
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 20th century 2
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Societies, etc. 2
Avery Tiger 2
Charleston County (S.C.) 2
High schools -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
Hospital Workers' Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1969 2
Private schools -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
Public schools -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century 2
Real property -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
Segregation in education -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
South Carolina -- History -- 1865- 2
Teachers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
annual reports 2
booklets 2
masters theses 2
typescripts 2
Abolitionists -- Massachusetts -- Boston 1
Abolitionists -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
Abolitionists -- United States -- History -- 19th century 1
Adolescence 1
Affirmative Action programs 1
Africa -- Social life and customs 1
African American History Month 1
African American air pilots 1
African American art -- South Carolina -- 20th century 1
African American artists -- South Carolina 1
African American beauty operators 1
African American business enterprises 1
African American businesspeople -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American churches 1
African American churches -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Photographs 1
African American civil rights workers -- United States 1
African American clergy 1
African American educators -- United States -- 20th century 1
African American elementary schools -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American families -- South Carolina 1
African American families -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American fraternal organizations -- 20th century -- Photographs 1
African American fraternal organizations -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American high school students -- Societies and clubs 1
African American legislators 1
African American men 1
African American musicians -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American photographers 1
African American photographers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American political activists 1
African American politicians -- New York (State) -- New York 1
African American school administrators -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American school principals -- South Carolina -- Mount Pleasant 1
African American schools -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American slaveholders 1
African American teachers -- Florida -- Miami 1
African American teachers -- South Carolina -- Mount Pleasant 1
African American teachers -- South Carolina -- Yonges Island 1
African American teachers -- Training of -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American universities and colleges 1
African American women 1
African American women -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Intellectual life 1
African American women -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Social life and customs 1
African American women teachers -- Florida -- Miami 1
African American women teachers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American women teachers -- South Carolina -- Yonges Island 1
African American youth 1
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century 1
African Americans -- Civil rights -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 20th century 1
African Americans -- Genealogy 1
African Americans -- History 1
African Americans -- Music 1
African Americans -- Periodicals 1
African Americans -- Photographs 1
African Americans -- Politics and government -- 20th century 1
African Americans -- Social conditions 1
African Americans -- Social conditions -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century 1
African Americans -- Societies, etc. -- History 1
African Americans -- Societies, etc. -- Photographs 1
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