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Avery Normal Institute records

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Identifier: AMN 1012
Abstract The Avery Normal Institute was established by the American Missionary Association (AMA) in Charleston, South Carolina in 1865. The Institute originally served as a school for former slaves and free persons of color, providing normal (or, teacher) training to students pursuing careers in education. The school eventually became known just as Avery Institute, operating as a high school with financial support from the AMA until 1947, when it became part of Charleston's segregated public school...
Dates: 1862-1978
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

Avery photograph collection

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Identifier: AMN 1112
Dates: approximately 1890s-2012
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

Avery School Memorabilia collection

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Identifier: AMN 1159
Abstract The Avery School Memorabilia collection contains documents that pertain to the activities at the Avery Normal Institute. These items include programs from musical and dramatic performances given by the students, commencements, invitations, dance cards and other memorabilia from extra-curricula activities. It also includes some copies of the Avery yearbook and student newspaper. Portions of this collection are available digitally on the College of Charleston’s Lowcountry Digital Library...
Dates: approximately 1865-2005 ; Majority of material found within 1869 - 1954
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

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
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

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
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

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
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

Donald Fraser papers

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Identifier: 00-000
Abstract

In the 1940s, Donald Fraser attended the Avery Normal Institute, as had his brother, James, as well as his father, aunt and uncles. Before that, Fraser attended Immaculate Conception School. This collection contains items related to the Avery Normal Institute and Immaculate Conception School, including report cards and tuition receipts.

Dates: 1940-1950
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

Graves family papers

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Identifier: AMN 1081
Abstract The Graves family of Charleston, South Carolina, was an African American family consisting largely of educators and Avery Institute graduates. James R. B. Graves, Jr. (1883-1969), a Pullman porter and union member of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, married Rose Laura Winds (1890-1978) in 1915. Together, they raised five children: J. Michael, Pauline, Annette, Robert, and Eugene. J. Michael Graves (1915-1996), a Class of 1932 graduate of the Avery Institute, was an educator and...
Dates: 1884-2004
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

Isabelle Smalls Griffin papers

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Identifier: AMN-1171
Abstract

This collection contains transcripts of speeches, programs and other memorabilia from Avery Normal Institute and Baptist Hill High School.

Dates: 1947-1984
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

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Brownlee, Frederick Leslie, 1883-1962 1
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Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 1
Friendly Moralist Society (Charleston, S.C.) 1
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Graves, J. Michael (James Michael), 1915-1996 1
Graves, James R. B., 1883-1969 1
Graves, Pauline 1
Graves, Robert Blackburne 1
Graves, Rose L., 1890-1978 1
Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.) 1
Hoursey, Alphonso H., 1900-1977 1
Immaculate Conception School (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Laing Elementary School (Mount Pleasant, S.C.) 1
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Morton, Ruth, 1900-1989 1
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Charleston Branch (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Oakes, Ziba B., 1806-1871 1
Potts, John F., Sr., 1908-1998 1
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Smalls Griffin, Isabelle 1
Washington, Samuel Walter, 1901-1978 1
Wilson, Etta Winds, 1907-1995 1
Wilson, John T., 1910-1994 1
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