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Frederica Daly papers

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Identifier: AMN 1111
Abstract Frederica ( Freddy) Daly (born 1925) was a licensed psychologist and educator with over 30 years of teaching, training, counseling, clinical, and administrative experience. Daly specialized in adolescents, veterans, substance abusers, and families in treatment facilities, hospitals, and universities.The collection contains correspondence, writings, and other items documenting the personal and professional interests of Frederica Daly. Personal materials include...
Dates: 1923-2004
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

John L. Dart family papers

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Identifier: AMN 1069
Abstract John Lewis Dart (1854-1915) was born a free person of color in Charleston, South Carolina. He graduated from Avery Normal Institute in 1872 and attended Atlanta University in Georgia, and Newton Theological Seminary in Massachusetts, where he was ordained a Baptist minister. He returned to Charleston in 1886 and became pastor of Morris Street Baptist Church. Sixteen years later, Dart ministered the Shiloh Baptist Church. In 1894, he opened the Charleston Normal and Industrial Institute, a...
Dates: 1844-1947
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

Dart Library Oral History Project

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Identifier: AMN 1200
Abstract The Dart Library Oral History Project contains five oral histories documenting individuals' experiences of using the library at Dart Hall and attending dances in the second floor of the Hall. Participants also discuss family history, their memories of Jim Crow segregration in Charleston, and their professional careers. The oral history project was undertaken by the Avery Research Center as part of the 85th anniversary commemoration of the John L. Dart Library. The oral histories were...
Dates: 2012
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

DeCosta family papers

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Identifier: AMN 1101
Abstract The DeCosta Family papers, 1870-2010, document the lives of four generations of the DeCosta family, beginning with Benjamin Rhodes and Martha Elizabeth Adams DeCosta. The bulk of the collection consists of photographs of various family members and family units within the family lineage. Other materials document family members's educational pursuits and professional and personal lives through diplomas, commencement programs, correspondence, newspaper clippings, obituaries, funeral programs,...
Dates: 1850-2010
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

Frank Augustus DeCosta papers

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Identifier: AMN 1106
Abstract Frank Augustus DeCosta (1910-1972) was an African-American educator, administrator and scholar born in Charleston, South Carolina. In a career that spanned four decades, DeCosta served as a teacher and principal of two high schools, supervisor and chairman of an education department, director of instruction and of student teaching, foreign service statistical officer, and organizing dean of two graduate schools.The collection includes correspondence, research notes, essays,...
Dates: 1847-2000; Majority of material found within 1940-1972
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

Herbert A. DeCosta, Jr. papers

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Identifier: AMN 1084
Abstract Herbert A. DeCosta, Jr. (1923-2008) was a renowned African American architect and contractor based in Charleston, South Carolina. While he served as president of the H. A. DeCosta Company, the company worked on the construction and renovations of numerous churches, apartment complexes, schools, and residences, including some of the most architecturally significant houses in Charleston. The DeCosta Company also did much of the renovation and preservation work for Historic Charleston...
Dates: 1851-2009
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

Miriam D. DeCosta-Willis papers

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Identifier: AMN 1185
Abstract Miriam D. DeCosta-Willis (1934-2021) was an African American educator, academic, and activist born in Florence, Alabama. Her papers contain biographical materials, unpublished genealogical research of her ancestors, ephemera from family reunions and printed materials documenting other DeCosta family members, and photographs of DeCosta ancestors including Benjamin Rhodes DeCosta (1867-1911), Anna Theresa Harrenburg DeCosta (1868-1928), Elizabeth DeCosta (1869-1884), Hammond Harrenburg...
Dates: 1850-2014
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

DeReef Court and Park collection

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Identifier: AMN 1128
Abstract DeReef Court is a former African-American residential housing community in the City of Charleston, South Carolina established in 1854. Named after Joseph and Richard Edward DeReef, free men of color who were successful entrepreneurial brothers. Presently, the residential park known as DeReef Park represents the last green space in the Cannonborough/Elliotborough neighborhood.The collection holds ancestral histories, photocopied deeds and census reports regarding the DeReef...
Dates: 1854-2012; Majority of material found within 1990-2012
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

Armand Derfner legal papers

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Identifier: AMN 1049
Abstract Armand Derfner, b. 1938, has been a litigator in private practice in Charleston, SC, since 1974. He has litigated civil rights cases since the Voting Rights Act of 1965 went into effect in August 1968, when Derfner represented voters in Greenwood, Mississippi. He has gained national renown as a civil rights attorney, having won five cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. The Armand Derfner legal papers document his work since establishing his practice in Charleston in 1974. The papers are...
Dates: 1973-1995
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

Mary DeSaussure papers

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Identifier: AMN 1170
Abstract Mary DeSaussure was the first African American female to compete in the Police Athletic League in 1945 in Brooklyn, NY. She and her twin sister, Martha, were members of the first integrated team and were the original members of the First African American Girls Track Club in Brooklyn. She attended the 1954 Olympic Trials preliminaries at Brown University and formed the Queen Trailblazers, a track team in Brooklyn in 1973. This collection contains one series on the life and achievements of...
Dates: 1920-2002; Majority of material found within 1936 - 2002
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

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Avery Normal Institute 48
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
Allen University 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
American Missionary Association 4
Benedict College 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
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
DeReef family 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
McClennan, Alonzo C., 1855-1912 3
McCottry-Smith, Cynthia 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
Simmons, Philip, 1912-2009 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
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