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Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture Oral History Project

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Identifier: AMN 1057
Abstract The Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture Oral History Project brings together oral history projects coordinated by the Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture (AIAAHC) as well as individual oral histories conducted by members of the Institute. The majority of the oral histories were done as a part of the Avery Normal Institute Oral History Project which sought to document the experiences and perceptions of former students, teachers, principals, and community...
Dates: 1980-1996

Avery Research Center Averyite oral histories

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Identifier: AMN 1193
Abstract The Avery Research Center Averyite oral histories collection brings together individual oral histories conducted by Avery Research Center employees with Averyites (students, graduates, teachers, and descendants) to discuss their time at the Avery Normal Institute and their professional and personal lives after they attended the school. A handful of oral histories with Averyites that were donated to the Avery Research Center, but not conducted by Avery Research Center employees, are also...
Dates: 1976-2009

Avery Research Center Lowcountry oral histories

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Identifier: AMN 1195
Abstract The Avery Research Center Lowcountry oral histories collection brings together individual oral history interviews mostly conducted by Avery Research Center employees with people who are from the South Carolina Lowcountry or lived and worked in the Lowcountry while adults. A handful of oral histories that were donated to the Avery Research Center, but not conducted by Avery Research Center employees, are also included in this collection. A wide range of topics are discussed in these oral...
Dates: 1976-2019

Avery Research Center Midlands oral histories

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Identifier: AMN 1201
Abstract The Avery Research Center Midlands oral histories collection brings together individual oral history interviews conducted by Avery Research Center employees with people who are from the South Carolina Midlands or lived and worked in the Midlands while adults. A handful of oral histories that were donated to the Avery Research Center, but not conducted by Avery Research Center employees, are also included in this collection. A wide range of topics are discussed in these oral histories...
Dates: 1981-2019

Jean Claude Bouffard Civil Rights Interviews

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Identifier: AMN 1204
Abstract The Jean Claude Bouffard Civil Rights interviews collection, 1982, contains five oral history interviews with Septima Clark, Mary Moultrie, and Bernice Robinson as well as recordings of lectures that Septima Clark and Thomas R. Waring, Jr. gave to Bouffard's College of Charleston class in the summer of 1982. Participants discuss a wide range of topics including their family history and upbringing, their involvement in the Civil Rights Movement and organizing, African American leaders during...
Dates: 1982

Guy and Candie Carawan Sea Island recordings

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Identifier: AMN 1203
Abstract

The Guy and Candie Carawan Sea Island recordings, 1960-1969, collection contains field recordings and oral history interviews documenting Gullah Geechee life and culture in rural Johns Island. The recordings were created, first, during the Carawan's time assisting the Island's Citizenship School and, later, when they lived on the Island from 1963 to 1965. The collection consists of reel-to-reel tapes, audiocassettes, and transcripts.

Dates: circa 1959-1969

Curriculum package for South Carolina Voices

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Identifier: Mss 1070
Collection Overview

This collection consists of 12 videocassettes of taped interviews with South Carolinians who survived the Holocaust, participated in liberating the camps, or otherwise witnessed the Holocaust and 2 copies of the resource guide, South Carolina voices: lessons from the Holocaust. The curriculum package is provided by South Carolina Educational Television (ETV) as part of its Holocaust forum.

Dates: 1991-1992, 1999

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

Director's Cut Oral History Project

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Identifier: AMN 1209
Abstract The Director's Cut Oral History Project is a series of six video oral history interviews recorded in 2025 with current and former living directors of the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture. Participants discuss a wide variety of topics including their professional lives, what brought them to Avery, accomplishments and challenges from their tenure, the role the Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture and Averyites from the Avery Normal Institute played...
Dates: 2025

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

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African Americans -- Civil rights -- South Carolina -- Charleston 4
Civil rights demonstrations 4
Hospital Workers' Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1969 4
Gullahs -- South Carolina -- Social life and customs 3
African American activists 2
African American civil rights workers -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century 2
African American educators -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
African American families -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
African American neighborhoods -- South Carolina 2
African American soldiers 2
African American women civil rights workers 2
African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
African Americans -- Music 2
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Segregation 2
Cigar Factory Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1945-1946 2
Civil rights movements -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
Community organizers 2
Geechees -- South Carolina -- Social life and customs 2
Gospel music 2
Gullahs 2
Segregation in education -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
audiocassettes 2
interviews 2
school yearbooks 2
African American Baptists 1
African American academic libraries 1
African American basket makers 1
African American business enterprises 1
African American children -- Education -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American churches -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American churches -- South Carolina -- Johns Island (Island) 1
African American educators 1
African American educators -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Photographs 1
African American families -- South Carolina 1
African American high school students -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American jazz musicians -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American judges 1
African American leadership 1
African American librarians -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American musicians 1
African American nurses -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American political activists -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American politicians 1
African American school administrators -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American school principals -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American teachers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American teachers -- Training of -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American women politicians 1
African Americans -- Civil rights -- South Carolina 1
African Americans -- Civil rights -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 20th century 1
African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina 1
African Americans -- Relations with Jews 1
African Americans -- Religion 1
African Americans -- Sea Islands -- Social life and customs 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Atlantic Beach -- History 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Social life and customs 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Johns Island (Island) -- Social conditions 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Johns Island (Island) -- Social life and customs 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Politics and government -- 20th century 1
African Americans in the civil service 1
Architecture -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Archives -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Archives and education 1
Atlantic Beach (S.C.) 1
Barnwell County (S.C.) 1
Bridge clubs 1
Charleston (S.C.) -- Genealogy 1
Church music 1
Clothing and dress -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- 20th century 1
Columbia (S.C.) 1
Dance halls 1
Direct action 1
Discrimination in public accommodations 1
Drayton Hall (S.C.) -- History 1
East Side (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Enslaved persons -- South Carolina -- Colleton County 1
Field recordings 1
Geechees 1
Gentrification -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Historic buildings -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Holocaust survivors -- South Carolina 1
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives 1
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Study and teaching (Secondary) 1
Hospitals -- Employees -- Labor unions -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Israel -- Description and travel 1
Jewish camps 1
Jewish youth -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Societies and clubs 1
Jews -- Social life and customs 1
Jews -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Johns Island (S.C.) 1
Labor unions -- United States -- Officials and employees -- Interviews 1
Libraries -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Libraries and Black people 1
McLeod Plantation (Charleston County, S.C.) 1
Mexico -- Description and travel 1
Mount Pleasant (S.C.) 1
Museum directors 1
Myrtle Grove Plantation (Colleton County, S.C.) 1
Names
Avery Normal Institute 4
Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture 3
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Charleston Branch (Charleston, S.C.) 3
Avery Research Center 2
College of Charleston 2
Fielding, Herbert U., 1923-2015 2
Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.) 2
Moultrie, Mary, 1943-2015 2
Robinson, Bernice, 1914-1994 2
Saunders, William, 1935- 2
Southern Christian Leadership Conference 2
Washington, McKinley, Jr., Rev., 1936-2022 2
Allen University 1
Alston, Elizabeth 1
American Missionary Association 1
Amistad Research Center 1
Amos-Frazier, Marjorie, 1926-2010 1
Benedict College 1
Blake, James G., Rev., 1942-1999 1
Bouffard, Jean Claude 1
Brown, Mattie 1
Brown, Millicent E. 1
Butler, Tamara T. 1
Byrd, Alma W. 1
Carawan, Candie 1
Carawan, Guy 1
Chandler, Karen A. 1
Charleston County School District 1
Clark, Septima Poinsette, 1898-1987 1
Cornwell, Ruby Pendergrass, 1902-2003 1
Crawford, Robert, 1953- 1
Daise, Natalie 1
Daise, Ron 1
Dart Hall (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Davis, Norma Hoffman, 1940- 1
DeReef family 1
Doster, Lillie M., 1922-2015 1
Drago, Edmund L. 1
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 1
Dulaney, W. Marvin, 1950- 1
Edison, Robert 1
Fielding, Bernard R., Sr., 1932-2020 1
Fields, Richard E., 1920- 1
Finney, Ernest A., Jr. (Ernest Adolphus), 1931-2017 1
Fordham, Lorraine 1
Friendly Moralist Society (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Garfinkel family 1
Glascoe, Myrtle Gonza 1
Glover, Maggie W., 1948- 1
Goforth, Gladys B., 1927-2019 1
Goodwin, Willis 1
Greene, Sylvia 1
Hill, Lily 1
Hunt, Eugene C. 1
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union 1
Jenkins, Esau, 1910-1972 1
John L. Dart Library (Charleston, S.C.) 1
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 1
Laing School (Mount Pleasant, S.C.) 1
Lee, Brenda, 1948- 1
Mack, David J., III, 1953-2023 1
Mack, Frances T., 1919-2015 1
McCottry-Smith, Cynthia 1
McCray, Jack 1
Metz, Francis P., Rev., 1909-1999 1
Moore, Fred H., 1934- 1
National Council of Negro Women 1
Oakes, Ziba B., 1806-1871 1
Olivet Presbyterian Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Richard, Carole M., 1948- 1
Richardson, Irene, 1913-2015 1
Riley, Joseph P., 1943- 1
Russell, Maggie 1
Scher, Linda 1
Service Employees International Union 1
Shapiro family 1
Shapiro, Morton Henry, 1928-2007 1
Shapiro, Sandra Garfinkel, 1935- 1
Simkins, Modjeska Monteith, 1899-1992 1
Simmons, Philip, 1912-2009 1
Smyth, William D. 1
South Carolina Educational Television Network 1
South Carolina Legislative Black Caucus 1
Stewart, Hazel Murray 1
Taylor, Leonard 1
Turpin, Caroll 1
United States. Marine Corps 1
Waring, Thomas R. 1
Whipper, Jackson Seth, 1949- 1
Whipper, Lucille, 1928-2021 1
Williams Dockery, Patricia 1
Wine, Albertha 1
Young Judaea, Inc. 1
Zimmerman, Geraldyne P., 1911-2011 1