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Box 10

 Container

Contains 9 Results:

General Assembly petitions , 1817, 1820, 1893, and undated

 File — Box: 10, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

Includes "Citizens of Charleston," (undated); "Committee on Incorporation Report," (1817); and "The Sub-Committee of the Charleston Delegation...petition of free people of colour in Charleston" (1820)

Dates: 1817, 1820, 1893, 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> / 1.8: Manuscripts from the South Carolina Department of Archives and History

Notes on Master-in-Equity files and State Free Negro Capitation Books , 1982

 File — Box: 10, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents

Holds Drago's handwritten notes on index cards regarding the years (1811-1860).

Dates: 1982
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> / 1.8: Manuscripts from the South Carolina Department of Archives and History

State Superintendent of Education correspondence, 1874-1901, and undated

 File — Box: 10, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

Holds correspondence including "Letter to the Colored Teachers of Charleston," (1 July 1902); Letter "concerning the establishment of high schools," (30 November 1874); letter with "List of Colored teachers in Charleston County" as of 31 January, and 2 February 1901; and letter regarding "repairs on the State Normal School building," 16 February 1874, with Drago's handwritten notes.

Dates: 1874-1901, 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> / 1.8: Manuscripts from the South Carolina Department of Archives and History

Board of Trustees Minutes, Chrestomathic Literary Society, 1847-1851, 1865, and undated

 File — Box: 10, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents

Holds "Journal of the Proceedings of the Board of Trustees of the College of Charleston" (8 November 1865); typescript of "Debate Topics, Chrestomathic Literary Society, College of Charleston" (1847-1851), with Drago's handwritten notes on index cards.

Dates: 1847-1851, 1865, 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> / 1.9: Manuscripts from Robert Scott Small Library-Special Collections

Correspondence relating to the application by Negroes for entrance into the College of Charleston (Folder 1 of 3), 1943-1945

 File — Box: 10, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

Holds letters written by John Wrighten, and fellow Avery student with John A. McFall, pharmacist, to College of Charleston administration regarding application to the institution. Also includes "Suggested -amendment of the Constitution and Bylaws of "Avery Institute" Incorporated," sent by in his letter dated 12 September 1944.

Dates: 1943-1945
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> / 1.9: Manuscripts from Robert Scott Small Library-Special Collections

Correspondence relating to the application by Negroes for entrance into the College of Charleston (Folder 2 of 2), 1945-1948, and undated

 File — Box: 10, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents

Holds letters of Negro students inquring about applications to the College, the debate of admitting Negro students to the College, and discussion of financial appropriations for Avery through the state, county and/or city.

Dates: 1945-1948, 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> / 1.9: Manuscripts from Robert Scott Small Library-Special Collections

Correspondence relating to the application by Negroes for entrance into the College of Charleston (Folder 3 of 3), 1947, 1966, and undated

 File — Box: 10, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents Includes "Memorandum: Municipal Colleges-Savannah, Georgia, and Jacksonville, Florida," comparing these junior colleges with the College of Charleston regarding a "moral offset" in their relations with Negroes not seeking application to their institutions (30 August 1947); newspaper article regarding Black tenor, Sidney Woodward performing at Zion Presbyterian Church, Charleston, SC (undated); listing of Black female civil rights leaders (circa 1960s); letter and "Gift and Bequest" document...
Dates: 1947, 1966, 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> / 1.9: Manuscripts from Robert Scott Small Library-Special Collections

Holloway Family papers (Folder 1 of 2)

 File — Box: 10, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents

Holds selected documents: wills (of Richard Holloway), and correspondence (many of which are transcribed and typed by Drago); with Drago's handwritten notes on index cards.

Also refer to the Holloway Family Scrapbook on the Lowcountry Digital Library: https://lcdl.library.cofc.edu/lcdl/catalog/lcdl:20264

Dates: 1817-1966, and undated; Majority of material found in 1847-1948
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> / 1.9: Manuscripts from Robert Scott Small Library-Special Collections

Holloway Family papers (Folder 2 of 2)

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

Holds selected documents: wills (of Richard Holloway), photocopied newspaper articles, correspondence (many of which are transcribed and typed by Drago); typescript by Drago, "Holloway Connections," with Drago's handwritten notes on index cards.

Also refer to the Holloway Family Scrapbook on the Lowcountry Digital Library: https://lcdl.library.cofc.edu/lcdl/catalog/lcdl:20264

Dates: 1817-1966, and undated; Majority of material found in 1847-1948
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> / 1.9: Manuscripts from Robert Scott Small Library-Special Collections
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