Box 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.

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).

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Edmund Lee Drago Papers are organized in five series. The first series consists of materials related to Drago’s Initiative, Paternalism, and Race Relations research, documenting the Avery Normal Institute. This includes research done in collections round the country such as the Avery Research Center, the National Archives, Amistad Research Center, Mooreland-Spingarn Research Center. The files are mostly arranged by topic and consist of photocopies and...