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Miriam M. Brown papers

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Identifier: AMN 1098
Abstract Miriam M. Brown (1901-2002) worked as an educator for fifty-two years at multiple schools in Charleston and Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. She received numerous recognitions for her work in the community, including a proclamation from the town of Mount Pleasant declaring October 12th of each year as Miriam Brown Memorial Day. Miriam married Arthur Felder Brown in 1928 and had two children, Arthur Felder Brown, Jr. and Jeanne Albertha Brown Morris.The collection includes personal...
Dates: 1922-2002

Elmore M. Browne papers

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Identifier: AMN 1177
Abstract The Elmore M. Browne papers, 1929-2006, document Elmore's biographical information, correspondence, professional and personal affiliations, homegoing celebrations and funeral services for friends, family members, and colleagues, as well as miscellaneous periodicals, event programs, newspaper clippings and artifacts collected by Elmore. Contained in his affiliations are records of his twenty year career in the United States Army, time as a student at Hampton Institute (now Hampton University)...
Dates: 1929-2006

Craft and Crum families papers

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Identifier: AMN 1102
Abstract William Craft (1824-1900) and Ellen Smith Craft (1826-1891) were slaves who met on a plantation in Macon, Georgia. Unwilling to raise children in slavery, in December 1848 they devised a plan to escape to Philadephia, Pennsylvania. Ellen dressed as an invalid male, her arm in a sling to avoid writing (neither William nor Ellen could read or write) and face in bandages to obscure her feminine voice and lack of facial hair. William accompanied her as a servant. They arrived in Philadelphia on...
Dates: 1780-2007

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

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

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

Gracie B. Dobbins papers

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Identifier: AMN 1075
Abstract Gracie B. Dobbins (1905-2001) was an African American school teacher. She was born Gracie Lee Burns in 1905 and graduated Avery Institute in 1924 with a teaching certificate. She later married a Mr. Dobbins and taught at Minnie Hughes Elementary School on Yonges Island and possibly elsewhere. She served as Chairman of Annual Appeal of Dimes for the City Federation of Colored Women's Clubs in the 1960s. Dobbins died in Charleston in 2001.The collection contains materials related...
Dates: 1924-1986; Majority of material found within 1965-1986

Rosslee Tenetha Green Douglas papers

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Identifier: AMN 1132
Abstract Rosslee Tenetha Green Douglas, (1928-2011) was an African-American nurse, health administrator, and two-time presidential appointee during the Ronald Reagan Presidential Administration. Green Douglas attended Avery Institute, Class of 1947; Lincoln School for Nurses (1952) and was the first African-American graduate from the College of Nursing, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston (M.U.S.C) in 1972. She served as an administrator for the Franklin Fetter Family Health Center, and...
Dates: 1934-2005; Majority of material found within 1981-2002

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

Lucille Roper Edwards papers

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Identifier: AMN 1143
Abstract Lucille Roper Edwards (1924-) worked as an African-American elementary schoolteacher teaching second graders in the Miami, Florida area for forty-seven years. Originally from Cordesville, South Carolina, Roper Edwards attended the Berkeley Training School (Moncks Corner, 1938), and the Avery Normal Institute (1940-1942).The majority of the collection holds Roper Edwards' lesson plans written when she was a second grade teacher at Poinciana Park Elementary School, Dade County,...
Dates: 1942-1994, undated; Majority of material found within 1961-1985

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African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- Charleston 8
African American educators -- South Carolina -- Charleston 5
African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century 5
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston 5
correspondence 5
scrapbooks 5
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 4
Oral histories 4
African American children -- Education -- South Carolina -- Charleston 3
African American high school students -- South Carolina -- Charleston 3
African American school principals -- South Carolina -- Charleston 3
African American teachers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 3
African American women -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Societies and clubs 3
African American women -- South Carolina -- Societies and clubs -- History 3
African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- History 3
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Religion 3
Avery Tiger 3
Bridge clubs 3
Private schools -- South Carolina -- Charleston 3
Segregation in education -- South Carolina -- Charleston 3
memorabilia 3
programs (documents) 3
transcripts 3
African American business enterprises 2
African American businesspeople -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
African American churches -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
African American educators -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Photographs 2
African American families -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
African American fraternal organizations 2
African American newspapers 2
African American physicians -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
African American school administrators -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
African American schools -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
African American soldiers 2
African American teachers -- South Carolina -- Yonges Island 2
African American teachers -- Training of -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
African American teenagers -- Education -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
African American women 2
African American women -- South Carolina -- Societies and clubs 2
African American women -- South Carolina -- Societies and clubs -- Photographs 2
African American women teachers -- South Carolina -- Yonges Island 2
African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- Mount Pleasant 2
African Americans -- Photographs 2
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 19th century 2
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 20th century 2
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Social life and customs 2
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Societies, etc. 2
Boards of directors 2
High schools -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
Hospital Workers' Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1969 2
Nonprofit organizations -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
Public schools -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century 2
Pullman porters -- United States -- History 2
Real property -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
South Carolina -- History -- 1865- 2
Teachers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
administrative records 2
annual reports 2
awards 2
brochures 2
financial records 2
masters theses 2
personnel records 2
school yearbooks 2
Abolitionists -- Massachusetts -- Boston 1
Abolitionists -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
Abolitionists -- United States -- History -- 19th century 1
Adolescence 1
Affirmative Action programs 1
Africa -- Social life and customs 1
African American History Month 1
African American air pilots 1
African American art -- South Carolina -- 20th century 1
African American artists -- South Carolina 1
African American bankers 1
African American beauty operators 1
African American cemeteries -- South Carolina 1
African American churches 1
African American churches -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Photographs 1
African American civil rights workers -- United States 1
African American clergy 1
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African American educators 1
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African American families -- South Carolina 1
African American fraternal organizations -- 20th century -- Photographs 1
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African American legislators 1
African American librarians -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American men 1
African American musicians -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American nursing schools 1
African American photographers 1
African American photographers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American police -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American political activists 1
African American politicians -- New York (State) -- New York 1
African American school principals -- South Carolina -- Mount Pleasant 1
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Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture 12
Avery Research Center 7
DeCosta family 5
American Missionary Association 4
College of Charleston 4
Amistad Research Center 3
Centenary United Methodist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 3
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 3
Harleston, Edwin Augustus, 1882-1931 3
Immaculate Conception School (Charleston, S.C.) 3
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Charleston Branch (Charleston, S.C.) 3
Omega Psi Phi Fraternity 3
Palmetto Medical, Dental, and Pharmaceutical Association 3
Phillis Wheatley Literary and Social Club (Charleston, S.C.) 3
Potts, John F., Sr., 1908-1998 3
African Methodist Episcopal Church 2
Allen University 2
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority 2
Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture. Board of Directors 2
Brown Fellowship Society (Charleston, S.C.) 2
Brownlee, Frederick Leslie, 1883-1962 2
Buist Elementary School (Charleston, S.C.) 2
Burke High School (Charleston, S.C.) 2
Charleston County School District 2
Coming Street YWCA (Charleston, S.C.) 2
DeCosta, Frank A. 2
DeCosta-Willis, Miriam 2
Emanuel AME Church (Charleston, S.C.) 2
Hospital and Training School for Nurses (Charleston, S.C.) 2
Hoursey, Alphonso H., 1900-1977 2
McCottry-Smith, Cynthia 2
Morris Street Baptist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 2
Potts family 2
Pullman Company 2
Sanders-Clyde Elementary School (Charleston, S.C.) 2
Seabrook family 2
St. Mark's Protestant Episcopal Church (Charleston, S.C.) 2
Talladega College 2
Voorhees College 2
Young Women's Christian Associations. Charleston, S.C 2
African Methodist Episcopal Church. Seventh Episcopal District 1
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. Gamma Xi Omega Chapter (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity 1
Alston, Addie Middleton 1
Anderson, Steward Eugene, Jr., 1911-1997 1
Anderson, Vivienne Edwards, 1913-2005 1
Atkins, Maude Henrietta Smith, 1898-1998 1
Ball, Edward, 1958- 1
Baptist Hill High School 1
Baptist Ministers' Wives and Ministers' Widows of Charleston County (S.C.) 1
Bell family 1
Bell, Hiram Lewis 1
Bell, James A. (James Augustus) 1
Bell, Louise Purvis 1
Benedict College 1
Bennett College (Greensboro, N.C.) 1
Berkeley-Charleston-Dorchester Council of Governments 1
Bonds-Wilson High School (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Bricklayers, Masons, and Plasterers International Union of America. Local No. 1 (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters 1
Brown family 1
Brown, Arthur Felder, Jr. 1
Brown, J. Arthur, 1914-1988 1
Brown, James E., D.D.S., 1925-2003 1
Brown, MaeDe E. M., 1918-2012 1
Brown, Millicent E. 1
Brown, Miriam M., 1901-2002 1
Browne, Elmore M., 1914-2006 1
Burke High School (Charleston, S.C.). Fields-Sims-Wright Vocational Center 1
Caffey family 1
Caffey, Daisy A., 1892-1977 1
Calvary Episcopal Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Campbell, James E., 1925-2021 1
Chambers, Annette Graves, 1983- 1
Charleston County Legislative Delegation 1
Charleston Neighborhood Housing Services of South Carolina (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Cheyney State College 1
Chisholm, Shirley, 1924-2005 1
City Federation of Colored Women's Clubs (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Clark, Septima Poinsette, 1898-1987 1
Cole family 1
College of Charleston. Governor's School 1
Committee on Better Racial Assurance 1
Community Owned Federal Credit Union (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Cornwell family 1
Craft family 1
Craft, Ellen 1
Craft, William 1
Crum family 1
Crum, William Demos, 1859-1912 1
Crump family 1
Dart Hall (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Davis, Julia-Ellen 1
Davis, Norma Hoffman, 1940- 1
Davis, Vicki Lorraine 1
DeCosta Higgins, Eugenia N., 1898-1993 1
DeCosta Higgins, Robert S., 1932-1964 1
DeCosta, Anna H., 1868-1928 1
DeCosta, Beautine Hubert, 1913-2008 1