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Avery photograph collection

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Identifier: AMN 1112
Dates: approximately 1890s-2012

Book Lovers' Club records

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Identifier: AMN 1044
Abstract The Book Lover's Club of Charleston was founded in 1927 by African-American Women as a literary club with a purpose of establishing a high literary culture among its members as well as social improvement for Charleston African Americans. It helped battle racism and sexism through community-wide projects as well as neighborhood and youth activities throughout the city of Charleston.Contains organizational documents, including constitution, correspondence, minutes, and account...
Dates: 1927-1969

Ethyl R. Brown papers

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Identifier: AMN 1006
Abstract Ethyl R. Brown (1902-1997) was an African-American beautician, cosmetology instructor, and beauty shop owner in Charleston, South Carolina.The collection includes certificates, awards, photographs, and other documents related to Ethyl Brown's professional and social activities as well as her family. Certificates include a 1945 teaching certificate by South Carolina State Board of Cosmetic Art Examiners. There are also several photographs by Walter Boags, an African-American...
Dates: approximately 1930-1991

J. Arthur and MaeDe Brown papers

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Identifier: AMN 1074
Abstract J. Arthur Brown was born in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1914. After graduating from the Avery Institute in 1932, he continued his education at South Carolina State College in Orangeburg, SC, graduating in 1937. While at SCSC, J. Arthur Brown met his future wife MaeDe Esperanza Myers (1918-2012), marrying in 1940. The couple had three daughters: MaeDe Joenelle Gordon, Minerva King, and Dr. Millicent Brown; and one son, Myles Gregory Brown. He fathered a second son, Albert Wayne Gourdine,...
Dates: 1890-2013; Majority of material found within 1950-1988

Juanita W. Brown papers

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Identifier: AMN 1178
Abstract Juanita Washington Brown (1937-2006), a Charleston, South Carolina native was an educator, business owner and philanthropist. After her husband, William Melvin Brown, Jr. passed in 1994, Juanita became the Chief Executive Officer of their company, American Development Corporation (ADCOR), a defense contractor in North Charleston.Brown's papers highlight her life as an educator, religious, civic, and social organizational leader, and philanthropist. A majority of the collection...
Dates: 1900-2011, and undated; Majority of material found in 1955-2005

Septima P. Clark papers

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Identifier: AMN 1000
Abstract Septima Poinsette Clark (1898-1987) was born in Charleston, South Carolina to Peter Porcher Poinsette and Victoria Anderson. Clark attended small private schools and Avery Institute, getting a teacher's certificate in 1916. She married Nerie Clark (1889-1925) of North Carolina, a navy cook in 1920; they had one surviving child Nerie Clark, Jr. (born 1925). Clark received her BA from Benedict College in 1942 and an MA from Hampton Institute in 1946. She taught in various schools throughout...
Dates: approximately 1910-1990

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

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

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

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 American women -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Societies and clubs 8
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African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston 3
African American arts -- 20th century -- Exhibitions 2
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African American fraternal organizations 2
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African American teachers -- South Carolina -- Yonges Island 2
African American universities and colleges 2
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African American women in church work 2
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African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Religion 2
Bridge clubs 2
Charleston (S.C.) -- Race relations 2
Child care 2
Hospital Workers' Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1969 2
certificates 2
programs (documents) 2
scrapbooks 2
Adolescence 1
Affirmative Action programs 1
African American History Month 1
African American artists 1
African American band directors -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American churches 1
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African American civil rights workers -- United States 1
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African American fraternal organizations -- 20th century -- Photographs 1
African American fraternal organizations -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American freemasonry 1
African American girls 1
African American high school students -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Periodicals 1
African American jazz musicians -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American men 1
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African American nurses 1
African American nurses -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
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African American psychologists -- New Mexico 1
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African American school principals -- South Carolina -- James Island 1
African American teachers -- Florida -- Miami 1
African American teenage girls 1
African American track and field athletes 1
African American women -- Diaries 1
African American women -- Social conditions 1
African American women -- South Carolina -- Beaufort 1
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African American women clergy 1
African American women in the professions 1
African American women physicians 1
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Associations, institutions, etc. -- African American membership 1
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Names
Avery Normal Institute 10
Clark, Septima Poinsette, 1898-1987 3
Links, Inc. Charleston Chapter 3
South Carolina Federation of Colored Women's Clubs 3
Whipper, Lucille, 1928-2021 3
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African Methodist Episcopal Church 2
Allen University 2
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority 2
Avery Research Center 2
Benedict College 2
Charleston County School District 2
DeCosta, Emily, 1923-2011 2
Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.) 2
King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006 2
Martin, Maxine Smith 2
McClennan-Banks Memorial Hospital (Charleston, S.C.) 2
Order of the Eastern Star. Grand Chapter of South Carolina 2
Phillis Wheatley Literary and Social Club (Charleston, S.C.) 2
Voorhees College 2
Young Women's Christian Association of the U.S.A 2
Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990 1
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. Gamma Xi Omega Chapter (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Alston, Addie Middleton 1
American Development Corporation (North Charleston, South Carolina) 1
Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture 1
Banks, Anna DeCosta, 1869-1930 1
Baptist Hill High School 1
Baptist Ministers' Wives and Ministers' Widows of Charleston County (S.C.) 1
Berkeley-Charleston-Dorchester Council of Governments 1
Bethel United Methodist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Bettis Academy (Aiken County, S.C.) 1
Blacks United for Action 1
Blake, J. Herman 1
Bonds-Wilson High School (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Brown family 1
Brown, Ethyl R., 1902-1997 1
Brown, J. Arthur, 1914-1988 1
Brown, Juanita W., 1937-2006 1
Brown, Lucy Hughes, 1863-1911 1
Brown, MaeDe E. M., 1918-2012 1
Brown, Millicent E. 1
Brown, W. Melvin, Jr., 1934-1994 1
Buist Elementary School (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Burke High School (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Butler, Susan Dart, 1888-1959 1
Caffey family 1
Carawan, Candie 1
Carawan, Guy 1
Carmichael, Stokely, 1941-1998 1
Carson, Josephine, 1919- 1
Central Baptist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Charleston County Council 1
Charleston County Legislative Delegation 1
Chisholm, Shirley, 1924-2005 1
Citizens' Committee of Charleston (Charleston, S.C.) 1
City Federation of Colored Women's Clubs (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Claflin College (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1
Coards Studio 1
Coastal Community Foundation 1
Committee on Better Racial Assurance 1
Cornwell family 1
Cornwell, Ruby Pendergrass, 1902-2003 1
Cut Gap Elementary School (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Daly, Frederica Y. 1
Dart Grammar and Primary School (Charleston, S.C.) 1
DeCosta family 1
DeSaussure, Martha 1
DeSaussure, Mary 1
Delfin, Wilfred 1
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority 1
Democratic Party (Charleston County, S.C.) 1
Dixon, Isabel 1
Dobbins, Gracie B., 1905-2001 1
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 1
Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Edwards, Lucille Roper, 1924-2016 1
Emanuel AME Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Entre Nous Bridge Club (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Farr (Family : Beaufort County, S.C.) 1
Farr family 1
Farr, Henrietta E. 1
Farr, Joseph M. 1
Farr, Mary Behn 1
Farr, Minerva 1
Gethsemane Baptist Association 1
Glover, Julia Williams, 1908-2000 1
Gordon, Ethel, 1911-2004 1
Gourdine, Julia Alston 1
Hamilton, Lonnie, III 1
Harleston family 1
High School of Charleston (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Horton, Myles, 1905-1990 1
Horton, Zilphia, 1910-1956 1
Hospital and Training School for Nurses (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Howard University 1
Huff family 1
Immaculate Conception School (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Jackson, Christine Osburn 1
Jackson, Jesse, 1941- 1
James, Carrie, 1904-1974 1
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