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Avery photograph collection

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Identifier: AMN 1112
Dates: approximately 1890s-2012

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

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

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Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.) 3
Avery Normal Institute 2
Avery Research Center 2
Charleston County School District 2
Citizens' Committee of Charleston (Charleston, S.C.) 2
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Jenkins, Esau, 1910-1972 2
Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990 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
Bethel United Methodist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Blacks United for Action 1
Blake, J. Herman 1
Carawan, Candie 1
Carawan, Guy 1
Carmichael, Stokely, 1941-1998 1
Carson, Josephine, 1919- 1
Charleston Area Community Relations Committee (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Clark, Septima Poinsette, 1898-1987 1
College of Charleston 1
Community Organization Credit Union 1
Drago, Edmund L. 1
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 1
Friendly Moralist Society (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Horton, Myles, 1905-1990 1
Horton, Zilphia, 1910-1956 1
Jackson, Jesse, 1941- 1
Jenkins family 1
King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006 1
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 1
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Charleston Branch (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Oakes, Ziba B., 1806-1871 1
Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005 1
Penn Community Services 1
Political Action Committee of Charleston County (Charleston County, S.C.) 1
Progressive Club (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Robinson, Bernice, 1914-1994 1
South Carolina Federation of Colored Women's Clubs 1
Southern Christian Leadership Conference 1
United States Commission on Civil Rights. South Carolina Advisory Committee 1
Voorhees College 1
Waring, Elizabeth 1
Waring, Julius Waties, 1880-1968 1
Williams, Hosea, 1926-2000 1
Young, Andrew, 1932- 1
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