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Box 9

 Container

Contains 13 Results:

Manuscripts from the National Archives (Folder 1 of 4), 1865-1870, and undated

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

Holds "Records of the Bureau-RG 105:" holds photocopied broadside,"Rules and Regulation for the Government of the Scholars of the Franklin Street High School," (circa 1870s); correspondence and "Reports of Schools for Freemen," (1865-1866); "Superintendent's Monthly School Report,"(1866,1869-1870); and Drago's typed and handwritten notes.

Dates: 1865-1870, and undated
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Edmund Lee Drago collection / Series 1: Research Documents for <title render="italic">Initiative, Paternalism, and Race Relations</title> / 1.5: Manuscripts from the National Archives, Washington, D.C.

Manuscripts from the National Archives (Folder 2 of 4), 1986, 1842-1849, and undated

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents

Records from General Accounting Office-Record Group 217: Includes "Treasury accounts regarding Richard and Gilbert Wall," (1842-1849); correspondence,with Drago's typed notes.

Dates: 1986, 1842-1849, and undated
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Edmund Lee Drago collection / Series 1: Research Documents for <title render="italic">Initiative, Paternalism, and Race Relations</title> / 1.5: Manuscripts from the National Archives, Washington, D.C.

Manuscripts from the National Archives (Folder 3 of 4), 1790-1849

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

Records from Gerneral Accounting Office-Record Group 217: Holds photocopied correspondence, petitions and miscellaneous treasury accounts of Richard Wall, (1790-1849)

Dates: 1790-1849
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Edmund Lee Drago collection / Series 1: Research Documents for <title render="italic">Initiative, Paternalism, and Race Relations</title> / 1.5: Manuscripts from the National Archives, Washington, D.C.

Manuscripts from the National Archives (Folder 4 of 4), 1787-1838

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents

Records from General Accounting Office-Record Group 217: Contains photocopied correspondence, petitions and miscellaneous treasury accounts of Richard Wall, (1787-1838).

Dates: 1787-1838
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Edmund Lee Drago collection / Series 1: Research Documents for <title render="italic">Initiative, Paternalism, and Race Relations</title> / 1.5: Manuscripts from the National Archives, Washington, D.C.

Manuscripts from the Office of Archives and Records, Charleston County School District (Folder 1 of 4), 1922-1987, and undated

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents Documents from Avery Institute Box 891, Picnic Playground-Colored Box 896, Principals Reports Box 900, and Naming Columbus Street School, Box 863. Holds correspondence and memorandums regards Avery's intergation into the Charleston public school system, and the potiental merger with Burke High School. Also includes, "List of teachers Employed at Avery Institute," (circa 1947); report, "Reasons for Abandoning Avery High School, (undated); report, "Annual Report to Superintendent: Efforts of...
Dates: 1922-1987, and undated
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Edmund Lee Drago collection / Series 1: Research Documents for <title render="italic">Initiative, Paternalism, and Race Relations</title> / 1.6: Manuscripts from the Office of Archives and Records, Charleston County School District

Manuscripts from the Office of Archives and Records, Charleston County School District (Folder 2 of 4), 1928-1929, 1935-1936, 1941-1942, and undated

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents

Holds "Lists of Colored Schools: Names and Addresses of Teachers for Charleston County," (1928-1929, 1935-1936, 1941-1942); with Drago's handwritten notes.

Dates: 1928-1929, 1935-1936, 1941-1942, and undated
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Edmund Lee Drago collection / Series 1: Research Documents for <title render="italic">Initiative, Paternalism, and Race Relations</title> / 1.6: Manuscripts from the Office of Archives and Records, Charleston County School District

Manuscripts from the Office of Archives and Records, Charleston County School District (Folder 3 of 4), 1944-1955, and undated

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents

Contains the Simonton School newspaper, The Chatter-Box, (February 1944); correspondence, and "Petition of some 46 colored parents for admission of their children into the white schools of this district" (#20 Charleston, SC)(1955); with Drago's handwritten notes.

Dates: 1944-1955, and undated
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Edmund Lee Drago collection / Series 1: Research Documents for <title render="italic">Initiative, Paternalism, and Race Relations</title> / 1.6: Manuscripts from the Office of Archives and Records, Charleston County School District

Manuscripts from the Office of Archives and Records, Charleston County School District (Folder 4 of 4), 1956-1958, and undated

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents

Holds selected Constituent Board Minutes, from District #20, with Drago's handwritten notes.

Dates: 1956-1958, and undated
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Edmund Lee Drago collection / Series 1: Research Documents for <title render="italic">Initiative, Paternalism, and Race Relations</title> / 1.6: Manuscripts from the Office of Archives and Records, Charleston County School District

Robert F. Morrison papers, 1953-1985, and undated

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents

Holds correspondence, poem about St. Michaels Church in Charleston, SC, "How He Saved St. Michaels;" biographical sketch of Robert F. Morrison; newspaper article regarding "a Negro team won the Little League baseball championship of South Carolina by default...(1955); manuscript, "The Negroes Desire;" and Morrison's "Letter to the Editor," regarding Charleston's School District #20.

Dates: 1953-1985, and undated
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Edmund Lee Drago collection / Series 1: Research Documents for <title render="italic">Initiative, Paternalism, and Race Relations</title> / 1.7: Records in the possession of private individuals

J. Andrew Simmons papers, 1945-1986, and undated

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents

Holds newspaper clippings and event programs about Simmons as Executive Director of Hillcrest Center for Children, Inc.; completed questionaire by Drago regarding Simmons' family, upbringing, and his time at Avery (1986); and newspaper articles regarding South Carolina NAACP (The Lighthouse and Informer, 11 February 1945), and successful graduates of Booker T. Washington High School, Columbia, South Carolina (undated).

Dates: 1945-1986, and undated
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Edmund Lee Drago collection / Series 1: Research Documents for <title render="italic">Initiative, Paternalism, and Race Relations</title> / 1.7: Records in the possession of private individuals
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