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Avery photograph collection

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Identifier: AMN 1112
Dates: approximately 1890s-2012

Charleston Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People records

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Identifier: AMN 1117
Abstract The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was started on February 12, 1909, partly in response to the prevalence of lynching of African-Americans in America and the 1908 race riot that occurred in Springfield, Illinois. The Charleston Branch of the NAACP was founded in February 1917 by Edwin Harleston. The branch was established to advocate for the rights of African-Americans in South Carolina and Charleston. The Charleston NAACP serves as a space for...
Dates: 1920-1995, undated; Majority of material found within 1973-1994

Septima P. Clark papers

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Identifier: AMN 1000
Abstract Septima Poinsette Clark (1898-1987) was born in Charleston, South Carolina to Peter Porcher Poinsette and Victoria Anderson. Clark attended small private schools and Avery Institute, getting a teacher's certificate in 1916. She married Nerie Clark (1889-1925) of North Carolina, a navy cook in 1920; they had one surviving child Nerie Clark, Jr. (born 1925). Clark received her BA from Benedict College in 1942 and an MA from Hampton Institute in 1946. She taught in various schools throughout...
Dates: approximately 1910-1990

Edmund Lee Drago collection

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Identifier: AMN 1051
Abstract Scholar, author, and history professor, Edmund Lee Drago began his teaching career at the College of Charleston in 1975. He is the author of "Initiative, Paternalism and Race Relations: Charleston's Avery Normal Institute" (1990), among other books. His research focus is 19th century U.S. History, African American and Charleston history, and the American Civil War and Reconstruction. The Edmund Lee Drago Papers are organized in three series. The first consists of materials related to his...
Dates: 1784-2009, undated; Majority of material found in 1865-1991

Herb Frazier papers

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Identifier: AMN 1088
Abstract Herb Frazier, an African American journalist based in the Lowcountry, has reported and edited for various newspapers in South Carolina and elsewhere since 1972. Frazier has been active in professional journalism associations and in education initiatives for minority journalism.The collection includes materials related to the personal and professional life of Herb Frazier. A small portion of the collection contains biographical, educational, and other personal information. The...
Dates: 1972-2006

Virginia Geraty papers

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Identifier: AMN 1123
Abstract Virginia Mixson Geraty (1915-2004) was born in Summerville, South Carolina to Edward Miles Mixson and his wife Ethel Sarah Ray Mixson. Geraty attended Immaculate Catholic School at Hendersonville, North Carolina, where her family lived during part of her childhood. After the passing of her younger brother and father, Geraty and her family moved to Yonges Island, South Carolina. It was there on the island that Geraty became interested in Gullah, when she heard it being spoken by a family...
Dates: 1915-2007; Majority of material found within 1978-2004

Esau Jenkins papers, 1963-2003

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Identifier: AMN 1004
Abstract Esau Jenkins (1910-1972) was born and raised on Johns Island, South Carolina. With very little formal education, he became a businessman and civil rights leader.The collection contains biographical papers, correspondence, writings, and information about his affliations, including the Progressive Club, Citizen's Committee of Charleston, Community Organization Credit Union, Political Action Committee of Charleston County, Political Awareness League of Charleston County, and the...
Dates: 1963-2003

Millicent E. Brown collection of the Somebody Had To Do It Project

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Identifier: AMN 1148
Abstract The Somebody Had to Do It (SHTDI) Project brought to Claflin University in 2008, under the auspices of the Jonathan Jasper Wright Institute for the Study of Southern African-American History, Culture and Policy. This initiative was designed as a multi-disciplinary research project to identify the “first children” who “sacrificed their youth” in implementing the Brown vs. Board of Education decision of 1954. After the creation of a database identifying the names,...
Dates: 2003-2013, and undated; Majority of material found within 2006 - 2013

Bernice Robinson papers

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Identifier: AMN 1018
Abstract Bernice Violanthe Robinson (1914-1994) was born in Charleston, South Carolina to James C. and Martha Elizabeth Robinson. She was a cosmetologist, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Secretary and Chairperson of Membership, Highlander's first Citizenship School teacher for adult education on John's Island, South Carolina. She held political education and voter registration workshops in Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, and other southern states for the...
Dates: 1920-1989; Majority of material found within 1950-1989

Benjamin James Whipper, Sr., papers

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Identifier: AMN 1147
Abstract Benjamin James Whipper, Sr., (1912-1998), a minister, religious leader, educator, and civic activist. A native of Charleston, South Carolina, Reverend Whipper pastored two churches, Charity Baptist (1949), and Saint Matthew Baptist (1940). Whipper was the Moderator of the Charleston County Baptist Association; the treasurer with the Baptist Educational and Missionary Convention of South Carolina; and the Assistant Secretary on the Executive Board of the National Baptist Convention, USA,...
Dates: approximately 1865-2008, undated

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Hospital Workers' Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1969 4
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African Americans -- Civil rights -- South Carolina 2
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correspondence 2
essays 2
typescripts 2
African American businesspeople -- South Carolina 1
African American churches 1
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African American churches -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Photographs 1
African American educators -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Photographs 1
African American fraternal organizations 1
African American fraternal organizations -- 20th century -- Photographs 1
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African American journalists -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American photographers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
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African American women -- Social conditions 1
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African American women teachers 1
African American youth 1
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Charleston County (S.C.) 1
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Charlotte observer (Charlotte, N.C. : 1916) 1
Church buildings 1
Civic leaders -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Civil rights 1
Civil rights -- Societies, etc. 1
Civil rights movements -- Southern States 1
Civil rights workers -- United States 1
Community organization 1
Conferences 1
Creole dialects, English -- South Carolina 1
Daufuskie Island (S.C.) -- Social conditions 1
Day care centers -- South Carolina -- Yonges Island 1
Discrimination in education -- South Carolina 1
Discrimination in employment -- United States 1
Education -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
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Fraternal organizations -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Fraternal organizations -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Photographs 1
Functional literacy -- United States 1
Gullah cooking 1
Gullah women 1
Gullahs -- History 1
Gullahs -- South Carolina -- Folklore 1
Gullahs -- South Carolina -- Social life and customs 1
Hazing -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Hospital Workers' Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1969 -- Photographs 1
James Island (S.C.) -- History -- 20th century 1
Johns Island (S.C. : Island) -- Economic conditions 1
Journalism -- South Carolina 1
Journalism -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Journalism -- Study and teaching -- United States 1
Journalists -- South Carolina 1
Journalists -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Law enforcement -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century 1
Legal assistance to the poor -- South Carolina 1
Literacy -- South Carolina -- History 1
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Names
Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.) 4
Charleston County School District 3
Jenkins, Esau, 1910-1972 3
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Charleston Branch (Charleston, S.C.) 3
Avery Normal Institute 2
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Avery Research Center 2
Bethel United Methodist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 2
Carawan, Candie 2
Carawan, Guy 2
Citizens' Committee of Charleston (Charleston, S.C.) 2
Clark, Septima Poinsette, 1898-1987 2
Horton, Myles, 1905-1990 2
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 2
Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005 2
Robinson, Bernice, 1914-1994 2
Southern Christian Leadership Conference 2
Williams, Hosea, 1926-2000 2
Young, Andrew, 1932- 2
Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990 1
African American Education and Research Organization 1
Allen University 1
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority 1
American Missionary Association 1
Amistad Research Center 1
Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture 1
Baptist Education Center Foundation (North Charleston, S.C.) 1
Baptist Educational & Missionary Convention of South Carolina 1
Benedict College 1
Blacks United for Action 1
Blake, J. Herman 1
Brown, Millicent E. 1
Carmichael, Stokely, 1941-1998 1
Carson, Josephine, 1919- 1
Charity Baptist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Charleston Area Community Relations Committee (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Charleston County Baptist Association (S.C.) 1
Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina 1
Claflin University 1
Clyburn, James 1
College of Charleston 1
Community Action Program (U.S.) 1
Community Organization Credit Union 1
Curry, Constance, 1933- 1
Drago, Edmund L. 1
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 1
Evans, Virginia Geraty, 1939-2021 1
Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925-1963 1
Fleet and Industrial Supply Center (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Frazier, Herb, 1950- 1
Friendly Moralist Society (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Geraty, Edward Mixson 1
Geraty, Virginia Mixson 1
Hamer, Fannie Lou 1
Hicks, Judith Geraty, 1940-2011 1
Highlander Research and Education Center (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1
Horton, Zilphia, 1910-1956 1
IDEAS (Firm : Washington, D.C.) 1
Jackson, Jesse, 1941- 1
Jenkins Orphanage Institute (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Jenkins family 1
King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006 1
Lewis, John, 1940-2020 1
Massenburg, Joyce 1
McGehearty family 1
Medical University of South Carolina 1
Methodist Church (U.S.). South Carolina Conference 1
Morris College (Sumter, S.C.) 1
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Freedom Fund Program 1
National Association of Black Journalists 1
National Baptist Convention of the United States of America 1
National League of American Pen Women 1
Oakes, Ziba B., 1806-1871 1
Orphan Aid Society (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Palfi, Marion, 1907-1978 1
Penn Community Services 1
Political Action Committee of Charleston County (Charleston County, S.C.) 1
Progressive Club (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Ravenel, Charles Dufort, 1938- 1
Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority 1
Somebody Had To Do It (Project) 1
South Carolina Association of Black Journalists 1
South Carolina Commission for Farm Workers 1
South Carolina Educational Television Network 1
South Carolina Federation of Colored Women's Clubs 1
Southern Regional Council 1
St. Matthew Baptist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
United Methodist Church (U.S.) 1
United Methodist Women (U.S.). South Carolina Conference 1
United States Commission on Civil Rights. South Carolina Advisory Committee 1
United States. Brown v. Board of Education 50th Anniversary Commission 1
University of South Carolina 1
Volunteers in Service to America 1
Voorhees College 1
Waring, Elizabeth 1
Waring, Julius Waties, 1880-1968 1
Whipper, Benjamin James, 1912-1998 1
Whipper, Lucille, 1928-2021 1
Yonges Island Day Care Center (S.C.) 1
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