Edison, Robert
Person
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture records
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1103
Abstract
The collection contains the institutional records of the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture at the College of Charleston, established in 1985. The records are arranged chronologically by administration and then into sub-series consisting of administration and operations, archival holdings, and outreach and programs. Included are administrative and organizational records, records of archival holdings, and records reflecting the many programs and other outreach...
Dates:
1980-2019
Director's Cut Oral History Project
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1209
Abstract
The Director's Cut Oral History Project is a series of six video oral history interviews recorded in 2025 with current and former living directors of the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture. Participants discuss a wide variety of topics including their professional lives, what brought them to Avery, accomplishments and challenges from their tenure, the role the Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture and Averyites from the Avery Normal Institute played...
Dates:
2025
Robert D. Edison papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1183
Abstract
The papers of Robert D. Edison, educator and former director of Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture.
Dates:
1987-2001
Eva Jessye papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN-1208
Abstract
Eva Jessye was born in Coffeyville, Kansas on January 20, 1895. She attended Western University and Langston University, receiving her BA in 1919. In 1935, Jessye became the choral director for the premiere production of George Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess. In the 1980s, Jessye was appointed the Kansas Ambassdaor for the Arts by Governor John Carlin who created the post for her.
Dates:
1942-1987, and undated
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- African American academic libraries 1
- African American composers 1
- African American leadership 1
- African Americans -- Kansas 1
- African Americans -- Museums 1
- Archives -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Archives and education 1
- Composers -- Correspondence 1
- Museum directors 1
- Oral histories 1
- Women museum directors 1
- administrative records 1
- agendas (administrative records) 1
- annual reports 1
- awards 1
- brochures 1
- calendars (documents) 1
- circulars (fliers) 1
- financial records 1
- financial statements 1
- fliers (printed matter) 1
- inventories 1
- journals (periodicals) 1
- minutes (administrative records) 1
- newsletters 1
- papers (documents) 1
- personnel records 1
- poems 1
- programs (documents) 1
- transcripts 1