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Box 11

 Container

Contains 16 Results:

Manuscripts from Centenary Methodist Episcopal Church, Charleston, South Carolina Records, Volume 6, undated

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

Contains Drago's handwritten notes.

Dates: 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> / 1.10: Manuscripts from Various Repositories

Manuscripts from Charleston Public Library-John L. Dart Library, 1933-1974, and undated

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents

Holds documents from Dart Library's vertical files: photocopied brochure, "The School That Sings: Avery Institute," (circa 1933); Susan Dart Butler's essay, "Making a Way to Start a Library," (circa 1950s); "Burke High School 1974-1975 Student Bulletin;" newspaper articles regarding the fate of Avery and reunion celebrations (undated and 1975); typed biography of (Reverend) Charles Avery, the person Avery Institute is named after (circa 1886); and Drago's handwritten notes.

Dates: 1933-1974, 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> / 1.10: Manuscripts from Various Repositories

Manuscripts from Charleston Public Library-King Street Branch, 1934-1983, and undated

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

Holds documents from Library's Biography File and Death Records: newspaper clippings regarding John Bennett (1934, 1966, and undated); funeral program and newspaper article of Mae Holloway Purcell (1982, 1983); newspaper articles regarding William Courtney (1945, 1956); and Augustine Smythe (1946).

Dates: 1934-1983, 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> / 1.10: Manuscripts from Various Repositories

Manuscripts from Charleston County Register of Mesne and Conveyance (Folder 1 of 2), 1869-1973

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents

Holds various deeds of property from the American Missionary Association of New York, Samuel Holloway to The Friendly Union Society, and Palmer College.

Dates: 1869-1973
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> / 1.10: Manuscripts from Various Repositories

Manuscripts from Charleston County Register of Mesne and Conveyance (Folder 2 of 2), 1867-1876

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

Contains deeds and conveyance in Trust of the American Missionary Association, George Whiffle (New York State); John and Charles Farrar to Thurston Chase; William McKinlay; and Edward Deane to A. Toomer Porter, George Trenholm and Samuel L. Bennett.

Dates: 1867-1876
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> / 1.10: Manuscripts from Various Repositories

Manuscripts from Charleston Library Society, undated

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents

Holds handwritten notes on index cards regarding "Tax Book Free Person of Color, 1862, and photocopied manuscript, "Life and Recollections of Joseph W. Barnwell, Volume 2.," which discusses his affiliation with the St. Cecilia Society.

Dates: 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> / 1.10: Manuscripts from Various Repositories

Handwritten notes from City Archives and Grace Episcopal Church, Charleston, South Carolina, undated

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents

Holds handwritten notes on index cards regarding "Tax Book Free Persons of Color, 1864," and handwritten notes from "Council Journal." Also contains handwritten notes on index cards from Grace Episcopal Church's "Parish Register."

Dates: 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> / 1.10: Manuscripts from Various Repositories

Manuscripts from Highland Research Center, 1963, 1967

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents

Contains typescript, "The Charleston Movement N.A.A.C.P.: Report to the Coummunity, (circa 1963); "Lowcountry Newsletter," Johns Island, SC (1 September 1967, 4 November 1967).

Dates: 1963, 1967
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> / 1.10: Manuscripts from Various Repositories

Manuscripts from Library of Congress Manuscript Division, 1917-1954, and undated

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents

Holds membership records, correspondence, reports, newspaper clippings from the Charleston Branch of the National Assoication for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) (1917-1954) with Drago's handwritten notes on the NAACP, and the Carter G. Woodson Collection.

Dates: 1917-1954, 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> / 1.10: Manuscripts from Various Repositories

Manuscripts from Moorland-Spingarn Research Center (Folder 1 of 2), 1923-1952, and undated

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents

Holds correspondence and typescripts from the Stewart-Flippin Papers, E. Franklin Frazier Papers, Archibald H. Grimke Papers, Howardsian File, Ernest Everett Just Papers, Kelly Miller Papers, J. Waites Waring Papers. Also holds newspaper clippings regarding Dr. Edward P. Davis, Dean of Liberal Arts at Howard University, and Drago's handwritten notes regarding the collections.

Dates: 1923-1952, 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> / 1.10: Manuscripts from Various Repositories
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