Avery Normal Institute
Organization
Found in 40 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
Frank Augustus DeCosta papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1106
Abstract
Frank Augustus DeCosta (1910-1972) was an African-American educator, administrator and scholar born in Charleston, South Carolina. In a career that spanned four decades, DeCosta served as a teacher and principal of two high schools, supervisor and chairman of an education department, director of instruction and of student teaching, foreign service statistical officer, and organizing dean of two graduate schools.The collection includes correspondence, research notes, essays,...
Dates:
1847-2000; Majority of material found within 1940-1972
Gracie B. Dobbins papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1075
Abstract
Gracie B. Dobbins (1905-2001) was an African American school teacher. She was born Gracie Lee Burns in 1905 and graduated Avery Institute in 1924 with a teaching certificate. She later married a Mr. Dobbins and taught at Minnie Hughes Elementary School on Yonges Island and possibly elsewhere. She served as Chairman of Annual Appeal of Dimes for the City Federation of Colored Women's Clubs in the 1960s. Dobbins died in Charleston in 2001.The collection contains materials related...
Dates:
1924-1986; Majority of material found within 1965-1986
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
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- Archival Object 2
- 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
- African American educators -- South Carolina -- Charleston 3
- African American teachers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 3
- African American women -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Societies and clubs 3
- African American women -- South Carolina -- Societies and clubs -- History 3
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Religion 3
- Avery Tiger 3
- memorabilia 3
- programs (documents) 3
- scrapbooks 3
- African American children -- Education -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
- African American churches -- 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 schools -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
- African American teachers -- South Carolina -- Yonges Island 2
- African American teenagers -- Education -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
- African American women -- South Carolina -- Societies and clubs 2
- African American women -- South Carolina -- Societies and clubs -- Photographs 2
- African American women teachers -- South Carolina -- Yonges Island 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
- Bridge clubs 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
- Pullman porters -- United States -- History 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 cemeteries -- South Carolina 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 nursing schools 1
- African American photographers 1
- African American photographers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African American police -- 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 slaveholders 1
- African American soldiers 1
- African American teachers -- Florida -- Miami 1
- African American teachers -- South Carolina -- Mount Pleasant 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 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 + ∧ less
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