Avery Normal Institute
Organization
Found in 35 Collections and/or Records:
Rosslee Tenetha Green Douglas papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1132
Abstract
Rosslee Tenetha Green Douglas, (1928-2011) was an African-American nurse, health administrator, and two-time presidential appointee during the Ronald Reagan Presidential Administration. Green Douglas attended Avery Institute, Class of 1947; Lincoln School for Nurses (1952) and was the first African-American graduate from the College of Nursing, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston (M.U.S.C) in 1972. She served as an administrator for the Franklin Fetter Family Health Center, and...
Dates:
1934-2005; Majority of material found within 1981-2002
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
Entre Nous Bridge Club papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1025
Abstract
The Entre Nous Bridge Club was founded May 27, 1924 in Charleston, South Carolina by sixteen women to play a card game known as Five Hundred. The group, with membership limited to sixteen, met monthly in members' homes. The club rotated officers yearly and hosted annual celebrations and special parties for their 40th, 50th, 60th, and 70th anniversaries. The club continues to this day (2006).The Entre Nous Bridge Club Papers (1924-1994) consist of minute books; official and financial records;...
Dates:
1924-1994
Donald Fraser papers
Collection
Identifier: 00-000
Abstract
In the 1940s, Donald Fraser attended the Avery Normal Institute, as had his brother, James, as well as his father, aunt and uncles. Before that, Fraser attended Immaculate Conception School. This collection contains items related to the Avery Normal Institute and Immaculate Conception School, including report cards and tuition receipts.
Dates:
1940-1950
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
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
Isabelle Smalls Griffin papers
Collection
Identifier: 00-00000
Abstract
This collection contains transcripts of speeches, programs and other memorabilia from Avery Normal Institute (1940s) and Baptist Hill High School (1960-1985).
Dates:
approximately 1945-1985
Dr. Frank G. Hayne papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1135
Abstract
Frank George Hayne (1909-1984) was an African American dentist in Charleston, South Carolina. He attended Avery Institute, Immaculate Conception High School, Fisk University and Meharry Medical College.The majority of this collection is comprised of black and white photographs from disassembled scrapbooks of Hayne and his wife Anita (Cole) Hayne's family members. Most of the photographs are unidentified. The collection also contains correspondence and documents from Fisk...
Dates:
1911-1987; Majority of material found within 1930-1982
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 legislators 1
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- African American youth 1
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century 1
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- African Americans -- Genealogy 1
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- African Americans -- Music 1
- African Americans -- Periodicals 1
- African Americans -- Photographs 1
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