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Julia Alston Gourdine papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1130
Abstract
Julia Waites Alston Gourdine (1923-2009), an African-American elementary school educator who worked in the Charleston County School District for thirty-five years. Alston Gourdine was also an integral Senior Trustee Board member of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church in Charleston, South Carolina. She married Robert H. Gourdine, Jr. in 1944, and they had one son, Robert H. Gourdine, III.The collection contains documents and photographs relating to Gourdine's...
Dates:
1880-2002; Majority of material found within 1950-1996
Esther Kaplan Pivnick collection
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1138
Abstract
Esther Kaplan Pivnick (1913-2001), a former patternmaker from New York, retired on Johns Island, South Carolina in the mid-1970s. Along with historian Elizabeth "Betty" Stringfellow, she embarked on an ambitious project to write an inclusive history of Johns Island, (the largest Sea Island in South Carolina, approximately thirty miles south of Charleston), and incorporating the adjoining islands of Edisto, Wadmalaw, Kiawah and Seabrook. Their goal was to write a "peoples'...
Dates:
1663-2000, undated; Majority of material found within 1863-1999
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- African American cemeteries -- South Carolina 1
- African American churches -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African American churches -- South Carolina -- Johns Island (Island) 1
- African American elementary schools -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African American women -- South Carolina -- Societies and clubs -- History 1
- African American women teachers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African Americans -- Sea Islands -- Social life and customs 1
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 1
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Religion 1
- Edisto Island (S.C.) -- History 1
- Education -- South Carolina -- Johns Island (Island) 1
- Freedmen -- Education -- South Carolina 1
- Johns Island (S.C. : Island) -- Economic conditions 1
- Johns Island (S.C. : Island) -- History -- 19th century 1
- Kiawah Island (S.C.) -- History 1
- Seabrook Island (S.C.) -- History 1
- South Carolina -- History 1
- South Carolina -- Social conditions -- 19th century 1
- Wadmalaw Island (S.C.) -- History 1 ∧ less
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- African Methodist Episcopal Church 1
- Allen University 1
- Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority 1
- Alston, Addie Middleton 1
- Andell, Charles John, 1837-1876 1
- Andell, William, 1845-1932 1
- Avery Normal Institute 1
- Camp Saint Christopher (Seabrook Island, S.C.) 1
- Carawan, Guy 1
- Emanuel AME Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
- Gourdine, Julia Alston 1
- Hebron Presbyterian Church (Johns Island, S.C.) 1
- Immaculate Conception School (Charleston, S.C.) 1
- Jenkins, Esau, 1910-1972 1
- Mitchell, Julian A. (Julian Augustus), 1836-1907 1
- Morawetz, Victor, 1859-1938 1
- Order of the Eastern Star. Grand Chapter of South Carolina 1
- Pennsylvania Freedmen's Relief Association 1
- Pivnick, Esther Kaplan, 1913-2001 1
- Robinson, Bernice, 1914-1994 1
- Schaffer, Ferdinand, 1831-1913 1
- Seabrook Island Natural History Group (S.C.) 1
- Seabrook, William, Sr., 1773-1836 1
- St. John's Parish (S.C.) 1
- Stringfellow, Elizabeth Hamilton, 1920- 1
- United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands 1
- Washington, John Henry, Reverend 1 ∧ less
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