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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

Isaiah Bennett papers

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Identifier: AMN 1056
Abstract Isaiah Bennett (1926-2002) served as a union representative for tobacco workers at the American Tobacco Company's Cigar Factory and as a leader and negotiator of the Charleston Hospital Workers' Strike of 1969. Bennett also founded and was president of the Charleston chapter of the A. Phillip Randolph Institute, an umbrella organization for black trade unions.This collection contains five small series that pertain to the life and career of Isaiah Bennett. 1.)...
Dates: 1932-2002

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

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

Millicent E. Brown papers

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Identifier: AMN 1003
Abstract Millicent Ellison Brown (b. 1948) is an educator and civil rights activist. Born in Charleston to MaeDe and J. Arthur Brown, local and state president of NAACP (1955-1965), Brown, in 1963, replaced her older sister Minerva as the primary plaintiff in a NAACP-sponsored lawsuit (Millicent Brown vs. Charleston County School District #20).The collection consists of personal and professional documents, correspondence, and newspaper clippings relating to Millicent Brown's experience...
Dates: 1907-2024

James E. Campbell papers

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Identifier: AMN 1113
Abstract James E. Campbell (1925-2021) was an African American educator, human rights activist, and Pan-African Marxist who held membership in multiple Communist parties including the Communist Party of USA and later the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism.self-identified Marxist. He worked as a teacher in Baltimore, Maryland; New York, New York; and Tanzania and became an administrator with the New York City public school system. Campbell served as contributing editor for W. E....
Dates: 1930-2009

Charleston Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People records

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Identifier: AMN 1117
Abstract The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was started on February 12, 1909, partly in response to the prevalence of lynching of African-Americans in America and the 1908 race riot that occurred in Springfield, Illinois. The Charleston Branch of the NAACP was founded in February 1917 by Edwin Harleston. The branch was established to advocate for the rights of African-Americans in South Carolina and Charleston. The Charleston NAACP serves as a space for...
Dates: 1920-1995, undated; Majority of material found within 1973-1994

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

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Hospital Workers' Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1969 10
African Americans -- Civil rights -- South Carolina -- Charleston 9
African Americans -- Civil rights -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 20th century 6
Civil rights movements -- South Carolina -- Charleston 6
Oral histories 6
African Americans -- Civil rights -- South Carolina 5
Civil rights demonstrations 5
transcripts 5
African American activists 4
African American civil rights workers -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century 4
African Americans -- Civil rights 4
Civil rights 4
Civil rights movements -- United States 4
African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina 3
African Americans -- Politics and government -- 20th century 3
Charleston (S.C.) -- Race relations 3
Cigar Factory Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1945-1946 3
Civil rights workers -- United States 3
Community organizers 3
Gullahs 3
Hospitals -- Employees -- Labor unions -- South Carolina -- Charleston 3
Political action committees -- South Carolina 3
Southern States -- Race relations 3
Voter registration -- Southern States 3
African American churches -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
African American civil rights workers 2
African American civil rights workers -- United States 2
African American college teachers 2
African American labor union members -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
African American political activists -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
African American soldiers 2
African American universities and colleges 2
African American women civil rights workers 2
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century 2
African Americans -- Education 2
African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
African Americans -- Politics and government 2
African Americans -- South Carolina 2
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 2
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 20th century 2
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Segregation 2
African Americans -- Suffrage -- South Carolina 2
Bridge clubs 2
Civic leaders -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
Civil rights lawyers -- South Carolina 2
Conferences 2
Discrimination in education -- South Carolina 2
Education -- South Carolina -- Johns Island (Island) 2
Geechees 2
Gullahs -- South Carolina -- Social life and customs 2
Political participation 2
Race discrimination -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 2
Race discrimination -- South Carolina -- History 2
School integration 2
School integration -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 2
Segregation -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
Segregation in education -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
South Carolina -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century 2
Activism 1
Activists 1
Africa -- Periodicals 1
African American Baptists 1
African American Congregationalists 1
African American basket makers 1
African American business enterprises 1
African American businesspeople -- South Carolina 1
African American businesspeople -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American children -- Education -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American civic leaders -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American college students 1
African American dentists 1
African American educators 1
African American educators -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American educators -- United States -- 20th century 1
African American families -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American jazz musicians -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American musicians 1
African American neighborhoods -- South Carolina 1
African American nurses -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American police -- South Carolina -- Charleston County -- Biography 1
African American political activists -- United States -- 20th century 1
African American politicians 1
African American radio stations -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American religious leaders 1
African American school principals -- New York (State) -- New York -- 20th century 1
African American social reformers -- United States -- 20th century 1
African American stevedores -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 21st century 1
African American students -- Mississippi -- 20th century 1
African American teachers -- New York (State) -- New York -- 20th century 1
African American teachers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American teachers -- Tanzania -- 20th century 1
African American women -- Social conditions 1
African American women -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Societies and clubs 1
African American women -- South Carolina -- Societies and clubs 1
African American women teachers 1
African American youth 1
African Americans -- Civil rights -- South Carolina -- Rock Hill -- History 1
African Americans -- Civil rights -- United States 1
African Americans -- History -- Study and teaching 1
African Americans -- Music 1
Names
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Charleston Branch (Charleston, S.C.) 11
Brown, Millicent E. 5
Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.) 5
Southern Christian Leadership Conference 5
Avery Normal Institute 4
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 4
Robinson, Bernice, 1914-1994 4
Allen University 3
Brown, J. Arthur, 1914-1988 3
Clark, Septima Poinsette, 1898-1987 3
International Longshoremen's Association 3
Jenkins, Esau, 1910-1972 3
Moultrie, Mary, 1943-2015 3
Saunders, William, 1935- 3
Voorhees College 3
Williams, Hosea, 1926-2000 3
Young, Andrew, 1932- 3
Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990 2
Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture 2
Avery Research Center 2
Bennett, Isaiah, 1926-2002 2
Bethel United Methodist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 2
Blacks United for Action 2
Brown family 2
Brown, MaeDe E. M., 1918-2012 2
Carawan, Candie 2
Carawan, Guy 2
Carmichael, Stokely, 1941-1998 2
Charleston County School District 2
Citizens' Committee of Charleston (Charleston, S.C.) 2
Committee on Better Racial Assurance 2
Cornwell, Ruby Pendergrass, 1902-2003 2
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 2
Horton, Myles, 1905-1990 2
Jackson, Jesse, 1941- 2
King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006 2
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 2
Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005 2
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.) 2
United States Commission on Civil Rights. South Carolina Advisory Committee 2
Waring, Elizabeth 2
Waring, Julius Waties, 1880-1968 2
A. Philip Randolph Institute 1
African American Education and Research Organization 1
Al-Amin, Jamil, 1943- 1
Alexander, Camille D. 1
All-African People's Revolutionary Party 1
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority 1
American Civil Liberties Union 1
American Civil Liberties Union of South Carolina 1
American Tobacco Company 1
Amos-Frazier, Marjorie, 1926-2010 1
Beecher Congregational Church (New Orleans, La.) 1
Benedict College 1
Bennett College (Greensboro, N.C.) 1
Black Lives Matter Charleston (2014-2018) (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Black Panther Party 1
Blake, J. Herman 1
Blake, James G., Rev., 1942-1999 1
Bouffard, Jean Claude 1
Brown, Mattie 1
Campbell, James E., 1925-2021 1
Carson, Josephine, 1919- 1
Carter, Rosalynn 1
Centenary United Methodist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Charleston Area Community Relations Committee (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Charleston City Paper (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Charleston County (S.C.). Police Department 1
Charleston County School District No. 20 (S.C.) 1
Charleston Jewish Federation (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina 1
Claflin University 1
Cleaver, Eldridge, 1935-1998 1
Clyburn, James 1
Cole, John S. 1
College of Charleston 1
College of Charleston. Governor's School 1
Coming Street YWCA (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Communist Workers Party (U.S.) 1
Community Action Program (U.S.) 1
Community Organization Credit Union 1
Community Organization Federal Credit Union. 1
Concerned Clergy Committee (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Congress of African Peoples 1
Cottonreader, R. B. 1
Crawford, Robert, 1953- 1
Curnell, Denzel, 1995-2014 1
Curry, Constance, 1933- 1
Dabbs, James McBride, 1896-1970 1
Daise, Natalie 1
Daise, Ron 1
Derfner, Armand 1
Deweese family 1
Doster, Lillie M., 1922-2015 1
Duckett, Dewey M., 1900-1964 1
Duckett, Dewey M., 1929-2012 1
Emanuel AME Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Enwright, John T., 1904-1975 1
Estes, Steve, 1972- 1
Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925-1963 1