Avery Normal Institute
Organization
Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:
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
Filtered By
- Subject: African Americans -- South Carolina X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston 5
- African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century 4
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 4
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Religion 3
- African American churches -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
- African American physicians -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
- African American women -- South Carolina -- Societies and clubs -- History 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
- Public schools -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century 2
- Teachers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
- programs (documents) 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 art -- South Carolina -- 20th century 1
- African American artists -- South Carolina 1
- African American business enterprises 1
- African American churches 1
- African American churches -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Photographs 1
- African American educators -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African American educators -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Photographs 1
- African American elementary schools -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African American families -- South Carolina 1
- African American fraternal organizations 1
- African American fraternal organizations -- 20th century -- Photographs 1
- African American fraternal organizations -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African American men 1
- African American newspapers 1
- African American photographers 1
- African American photographers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African American school principals -- South Carolina -- Mount Pleasant 1
- African American slaveholders 1
- African American teachers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African American teachers -- South Carolina -- Mount Pleasant 1
- African American universities and colleges 1
- African American women -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Intellectual life 1
- African American women -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Social life and customs 1
- African American women -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Societies and clubs 1
- African American women -- South Carolina -- Societies and clubs 1
- African American women -- South Carolina -- Societies and clubs -- Photographs 1
- African American women teachers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African American youth 1
- African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- History 1
- African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- Mount Pleasant 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
- African Americans -- South Carolina 1
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Social conditions 1
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Social life and customs 1
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Societies, etc. -- Photographs 1
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Mount Pleasant 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
- Associations, institutions, etc. -- African American membership 1
- Boards of directors 1
- Buildings -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Cemeteries -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 1
- Charleston (S.C.) -- History 1
- Charleston (S.C.) -- Race relations 1
- Charleston County (S.C.) 1
- Charleston Neck (S.C.) 1
- Child care 1
- Children 1
- Church buildings 1
- Church music 1
- Civil rights movements -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Civil rights workers -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 20th century 1
- Educators -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Enslaved persons -- Georgia 1
- Enslaved persons -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Fraternal organizations -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Fraternal organizations -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Photographs 1
- Free African Americans -- Social conditions 1
- Free African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Social conditions 1
- Free African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Societies, etc. 1
- Free Black people 1
- Fugitive slave law (1850) 1
- Fugitive slaves -- United States 1
- Funeral homes -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Funeral rites and ceremonies 1
- Genealogy 1
- High schools -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Hospital Workers' Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1969 1
- Hospital Workers' Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1969 -- Photographs 1
- Paper money -- Confederate States of America 1
- Plantations -- Georgia 1
- Porters -- Labor unions -- United States -- History 1 + ∧ less
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