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Isabelle Smalls Griffin papers
Collection
Identifier: 00-00000
Abstract
This collection contains transcripts of speeches, programs and other memorabilia from Avery Normal Institute (1940s) and Baptist Hill High School (1960-1985).
Dates:
approximately 1945-1985
Lonnie Hamilton III papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1096
Abstract
Lonnie Hamilton, III was a musician, educator, and community leader. Notably, Hamilton was the first African American to serve on the Charleston County Council.The collection includes material related to Hamilton's personal life and professional career as an educator, musician, and Charleston County Councilman. The material in the personal series includes feature articles on his life, his involvement with community organizations including Spoleto Festival, U.S.A., and political...
Dates:
1950-2001
Harleston Funeral Home records
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1014
Abstract
The original Harleston Funeral Home was established in Charleston, South Carolina in 1901 by Edwin G. Captain Harleston (1854-1931) and his brother, Robert Harleston (1846-1915), under the name Harleston Brothers Funeral Home. It was one of the first funeral homes for African Americans in Charleston.
The Harleston Funeral Home Papers consist of 17 volumes which document the deceased, customers, and funeral expenses. They are organized into three series. The Funeral...
Dates:
1900-1976
Helen Evangeline Banks Harrison papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1032
Abstract
Helen Evangeline Banks Harrison was born in Hampton, Virginia in 1898, to Issiah and Anna DeCosta Banks. Often called Evangeline, or Vangi, she attended city schools in Charleston, South Carolina, as well as Avery Normal Institute, and Howard University. In 1922 she married Armistead B. Harrison and in 1935, she began working as a clerk in the out patient clinic of Charleston's segregated Hospital and Training School for Nurses. Harrison became Medical Records Librarian...
Dates:
approximately 1850-1985
Dr. Louis Hassell papers
Collection
Identifier: 30029
Abstract
This collection contains information from Cuspids, Inc., a book of newspaper clippings and photographs of 1896 Black History Month at the Naval Weapons Station.
Dates:
1896
Dr. Frank G. Hayne papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1135
Abstract
Frank George Hayne (1909-1984) was an African American dentist in Charleston, South Carolina. He attended Avery Institute, Immaculate Conception High School, Fisk University and Meharry Medical College.The majority of this collection is comprised of black and white photographs from disassembled scrapbooks of Hayne and his wife Anita (Cole) Hayne's family members. Most of the photographs are unidentified. The collection also contains correspondence and documents from Fisk...
Dates:
1911-1987; Majority of material found within 1930-1982
Holloway family scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1065
Abstract
James Harrison Holloway, compiler of the family scrapbook, collected materials in the early twentieth century to preserve a record of his family’s legacy as free prominent African Americans in Charleston, South Carolina, from their arrival in the late eighteenth century. In the wake of Reconstruction and the dawn of Jim Crow, Holloway, whose vocations ranged between preacher, postmaster, and harness maker, sought to assert his family's legacy against the economic, social, and political...
Dates:
1776-1977, undated
Mrs. F. Holmes scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: 30051
Abstract
Mrs. F. Holmes collected materials that show her broad range of interests and reflect the life of African Americans in the Lowcountry and South Carolina. Mr. Holmes was an educator, doctor, and an activist with the NAACP. This collection contains articles, pictures, correspondence and memorabilia that follow the lives of the Holmes family. Included is information about Mr. Fordham, a black police officer in Charleston, South Carolina at the end of the nineteenth century and Thomas E. Miller,...
Dates:
approximately 1880-1940
Alphonso W. Hoursey papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN-1156
Abstract
Alphonso W. Hoursey was born in 1900 and raised in Charleston. He attended the Avery Normal Institute, Fisk University (1926), and the University of Michigan. After graduating from Fisk, Hoursey taught at the Avery Normal Institute, organized the HI-Y Club, which prioritized a ‘Protestant Ethic’ and sportsmanship. With Avery’s closure in 1954, Hoursey went to teach at Burke High School until his retirement in 1966. This collection of memorabilia of Hoursey highlights his career as an...
Dates:
1907-1972 ; Majority of material found within 1940-1960
Humane and Friendly Society records
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1114
Abstract
The Humane and Friendly Society was a benevolent society of free African American men in Charleston, South Carolina. The Society served as a way to provide for widows, orphaned children, a burial place for its members, and it also arranged apprenticeships and educational opportunities for African American men.The collection consists of administrative materials of the Humane and Friendly Society including meeting minutes, correspondence, and membership lists. Topics of discussion...
Dates:
1934-1966, 1981
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- Southern States -- Race relations 3
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- annual reports 3
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- Avery Normal Institute 34
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Charleston Branch (Charleston, S.C.) 12
- Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture 8
- Avery Research Center 7
- Clark, Septima Poinsette, 1898-1987 7
- Centenary United Methodist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 6
- Voorhees College 6
- DeCosta family 5
- Harleston, Edwin Augustus, 1882-1931 5
- Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.) 5
- Waring, Elizabeth 5
- Burke High School (Charleston, S.C.) 4
- Charleston County School District 4
- Clyburn, James 4
- Emanuel AME Church (Charleston, S.C.) 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
- Omega Psi Phi Fraternity 4
- South Carolina Federation of Colored Women's Clubs 4
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference 4
- Waring, Julius Waties, 1880-1968 4
- Whipper, Lucille, 1928-2021 4
- African Methodist Episcopal Church 3
- Allen University 3
- American Missionary Association 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, Millicent E. 3
- Butler, Susan Dart, 1888-1959 3
- Carawan, Guy 3
- College of Charleston 3
- Cornwell, Ruby Pendergrass, 1902-2003 3
- DeCosta, Emily, 1923-2011 3
- Douglas, Rosslee Tenetha Green, 1928-2011 3
- Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 3
- Graves, J. Michael (James Michael), 1915-1996 3
- Harleston family 3
- Harleston, Edwin Gailliard, 1854-1931 3
- Hunt, Eugene C. 3
- Immaculate Conception School (Charleston, S.C.) 3
- King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006 3
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 3
- Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) 3
- McClennan-Banks Memorial Hospital (Charleston, S.C.) 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
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 3
- Robinson, Bernice, 1914-1994 3
- South Carolina. General Assembly. House of Representatives 3
- St. Mark's Protestant Episcopal Church (Charleston, S.C.) 3
- Thurmond, Strom, 1902-2003 3
- Williams, Hosea, 1926-2000 3
- Young, Andrew, 1932- 3
- Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990 2
- Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority 2
- Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity 2
- Amistad Research Center 2
- Anderson, Leroy Frederick, Dr., 1916-1989 2
- Anderson, Marian, 1897-1993 2
- Atlanta University 2
- Banks, Anna DeCosta, 1863-1911 2
- Bennett, Isaiah, 1926-2002 2
- Bethel United Methodist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 2
- Black Panther Party 2
- Blacks United for Action 2
- Brown family 2
- Brown, J. Arthur, 1914-1988 2
- Caffey family 2
- Calvary Episcopal Church (Charleston, S.C.) 2
- Campbell, James E., 1925-2021 2
- Carawan, Candie 2
- Carmichael, Stokely, 1941-1998 2
- Carr, Thomas Tobias, III, 1930-2017 2
- Carr, Thomas Tobias, Sr. 2
- Charleston Naval Shipyard 2
- Childs, Margaretta Pringle, 1912-2000 2
- Citizens' Committee of Charleston (Charleston, S.C.) 2
- Coards Studio 2
- College of Charleston. Governor's School 2
- Coming Street YWCA (Charleston, S.C.) 2
- Committee on Better Racial Assurance 2
- Congress of African Peoples 2
- Craft family 2
- Craft, Ellen 2
- Craft, William 2
- Crum, William Demos, 1859-1912 2
- Crump family 2
- Davis, Julia-Ellen 2
- DeCosta, Frank A. 2
- DeCosta, Herbert A., Sr., 1894-1960 2
- DeReef family 2
- Douglas, Walter Earl, 1923-1979 2
- Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal Church (Charleston, S.C.) 2
- Edwards, James B., 1927-2014 2 + ∧ less
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