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Albertha Murray papers

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Identifier: AMN 1020
Abstract Albertha Johnston Murray (1889-1969) was an African American educator born in Charleston, South Carolina to William Henry and Mary Ellen Virgin Johnston. Murray retired from the teaching profession in 1959, and remained active in numerous educational, social, and humanitarian organizations. Murray-LaSaine Elementary School was named in her honor along with Mary Alice LaSaine. She married Richard Gailliard Murray and had one daughter, Hazel Albertha Murray Stewart. The collection consist of...
Dates: 1909-1970
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

Old Slave Mart Museum collection

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Identifier: AMN 1092
Abstract The Old Slave Mart Museum in Charleston, South Carolina was founded in 1937 by Miriam B. Wilson as a museum of black slave crafts and related African artifacts. The museum was operated as a private, non-profit organization until her death in 1959. After Wilson's death, the Miriam B. Wilson Foundation was created to operate and manage the Old Slave Mart Museum.The Old Slave Mart Museum Collection is largely comprised of photocopied material, consisting of meeting minutes from the...
Dates: 1929-1987
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

Order of the Eastern Star, Prince Hall Chapter No. 41 records

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Identifier: AMN 1076
Abstract The membership of the Order of the Eastern Star (O.E.S.) Prince Hall affiliated chapters are comprised of female relatives of men who are in the Prince Hall Masonry. In 1875, the first subordinate chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star Prince Hall affliated chapter was created by Ancient Free and Accepted Masons (A.F & A.M.), Brother Thornton A. Jackson in Washington, D.C. The Charleston chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star began circa 1912 and are known as Prince Hall Chapter No....
Dates: 1921-2000
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

Owl's Whist Club records

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Identifier: AMN 1091
Abstract The Owl's Whist Club was founded by sixteen African American men on February 14, 1914 in Charleston, South Carolina. The purpose of the club was to provide these men an opportunity to play cards, socialize, and discuss social issues. The Owl's Whist Club remains a social organization for professional African American men and is still active today.The collection documents the history of the Owl's Whist Club of Charleston, South Carolina, from 1924-1989. Materials include...
Dates: 1924-1989
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

Walter Pantovic slavery collection

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Identifier: AMN 1041
Dates: 1687-1968; Majority of material found within 1800-1900
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

Ethelyn Murray Parker papers

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Identifier: AMN 1029
Abstract Ethelyn Murray was born in 1895 to Georgie Westcott and Robert J. Murray, in Charleston, S.C. Murray attended the Simonton School and the Avery Normal Institute, graduating in 1914. Murray worked at Voorhees for nine years and in 1936, she moved back to Charleston. She married Sebastian L. Parker in 1939. In the 1940s, Parker took a writing correspondence course and upon completion, she began a column for The Lighthouse and Informer, an African American...
Dates: 1899-1992; Majority of material found within 1920-1980
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

Jane and William Pease papers

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Identifier: AMN 1019
Abstract Jane H. Pease (born 1929) and William H. Pease (born 1924), professors emeritus from the the University of Maine, Orono, and former associate professors at the College of Charleston, wrote numerous books and articles on abolition, slavery, the history of Charleston, and many other topics.The collection consists of research material created and collected by the Peases for numerous projects. The materials document the enslaved and free blacks in Charleston, South Carolina, national...
Dates: 1804-1992
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

Phillis Wheatley Literary and Social Club records

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Identifier: AMN 1031
Abstract The Phillis Wheatley Literary and Social Club was formed in 1916 under the direction of Jeannette Cox, wife of Avery Normal Institute principal Benjamin Cox. The club consisted of nineteen women members meeting to discuss literary works by such authors as W.E.B. DuBois, Carter G. Woodson and others. The club women also helped fulfill their mission to "lift as we climb" by taking an active role in Charleston's African American community by donating funds to such organizations as the YWCA,...
Dates: 1907-2017
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

Esther Kaplan Pivnick collection

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Identifier: AMN 1138
Abstract Esther Kaplan Pivnick (1913-2001), a former patternmaker from New York, retired on Johns Island, South Carolina in the mid-1970s. Along with historian Elizabeth "Betty" Stringfellow, she embarked on an ambitious project to write an inclusive history of Johns Island, (the largest Sea Island in South Carolina, approximately thirty miles south of Charleston), and incorporating the adjoining islands of Edisto, Wadmalaw, Kiawah and Seabrook. Their goal was to write a "peoples'...
Dates: 1663-2000, undated; Majority of material found within 1863-1999
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

Leila Potts Campbell papers

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Identifier: AMN 1174
Abstract

The personal and professional papers of former associate director of Avery Research Center, Leila Potts Campbell.

Dates: approximately 1830s-2009
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

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correspondence 20
African American churches -- South Carolina -- Charleston 15
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African American children -- Education -- South Carolina -- Charleston 6
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Civil rights movements -- United States 4
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Avery Normal Institute 47
Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture 16
Avery Research Center 15
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Charleston Branch (Charleston, S.C.) 15
Clark, Septima Poinsette, 1898-1987 7
DeCosta family 7
Centenary United Methodist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 6
College of Charleston 6
Harleston, Edwin Augustus, 1882-1931 6
Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.) 6
Voorhees College 6
African Methodist Episcopal Church 5
Emanuel AME Church (Charleston, S.C.) 5
Links, Inc. Charleston Chapter 5
McClennan-Banks Memorial Hospital (Charleston, S.C.) 5
South Carolina Federation of Colored Women's Clubs 5
Southern Christian Leadership Conference 5
Waring, Elizabeth 5
Whipper, Lucille, 1928-2021 5
Allen University 4
American Missionary Association 4
Brown, Millicent E. 4
Burke High School (Charleston, S.C.) 4
Charleston County School District 4
Clyburn, James 4
Hospital and Training School for Nurses (Charleston, S.C.) 4
Howard University 4
Jenkins, Esau, 1910-1972 4
Morris Street Baptist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 4
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 4
Omega Psi Phi Fraternity 4
Palmetto Medical, Dental, and Pharmaceutical Association 4
Phillis Wheatley Literary and Social Club (Charleston, S.C.) 4
Potts family 4
Potts, John F., Sr., 1908-1998 4
St. Mark's Protestant Episcopal Church (Charleston, S.C.) 4
Waring, Julius Waties, 1880-1968 4
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority 3
Amistad Research Center 3
Baskervill Ministries (Pawleys Island, S.C.) 3
Benedict College 3
Bonds-Wilson High School (Charleston, S.C.) 3
Brown Fellowship Society (Charleston, S.C.) 3
Brown family 3
Brown, J. Arthur, 1914-1988 3
Butler, Susan Dart, 1888-1959 3
Calvary Episcopal Church (Charleston, S.C.) 3
Carawan, Guy 3
Cornwell, Ruby Pendergrass, 1902-2003 3
DeCosta, Emily, 1923-2011 3
DeCosta-Willis, Miriam 3
Douglas, Rosslee Tenetha Green, 1928-2011 3
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 3
Dulaney, W. Marvin, 1950- 3
Fielding, Herbert U., 1923-2015 3
Graves, J. Michael (James Michael), 1915-1996 3
Harleston family 3
Harleston, Edwin Gailliard, 1854-1931 3
Holloway family 3
Hunt, Eugene C. 3
Immaculate Conception School (Charleston, S.C.) 3
International Longshoremen's Association 3
King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006 3
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 3
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) 3
McFall, Thomas Carr, 1908-1969 3
Medical University of South Carolina 3
Mickey family 3
Morris College (Sumter, S.C.) 3
Mt. Zion A.M.E. Church (Charleston, S.C.) 3
Robinson, Bernice, 1914-1994 3
Saunders, William, 1935- 3
South Carolina. General Assembly. House of Representatives 3
Thurmond, Strom, 1902-2003 3
Whipper, Benjamin James, 1912-1998 3
Williams, Hosea, 1926-2000 3
Young Women's Christian Associations. Charleston, S.C 3
Young, Andrew, 1932- 3
Zion-Olivet United Presbyterian Church (Charleston, S.C.) 3
Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990 2
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. Gamma Xi Omega Chapter (Charleston, S.C.) 2
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity 2
Amos-Frazier, Marjorie, 1926-2010 2
Anderson, Leroy Frederick, Dr., 1916-1989 2
Anderson, Marian, 1897-1993 2
Atlanta University 2
Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture. Board of Directors 2
Banks, Anna DeCosta, 1869-1930 2
Baptist Educational & Missionary Convention of South Carolina 2
Bennett College (Greensboro, N.C.) 2
Bennett, Isaiah, 1926-2002 2
Bethel United Methodist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 2
Black Panther Party 2
Blacks United for Action 2
Brown, MaeDe E. M., 1918-2012 2
Brown, W. Melvin, Jr., 1934-1994 2
Brownlee, Frederick Leslie, 1883-1962 2
Buist Elementary School (Charleston, S.C.) 2
Caffey family 2
Campbell, James E., 1925-2021 2
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