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Charleston County Black School Directory records

 Collection
Identifier: 30019
Abstract The Charleston County Black School Directory is an extension of the 1989 Research Conference, "The History of African American Education in Charleston, South Carolina." The purpose of this Avery Research Center project is to begin documenting the long struggle of African Americans in the South Carolina Lowcountry to educate their children despite the laws and customs that hindered them. This collection contains information on individual historically African American schools in the area,...
Dates: approximately 1882-1990

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

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

Mamie E. Garvin Fields papers

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Identifier: AMN 1023
Abstract Mamie Elizabeth Garvin Fields (1888-1987) was an African-American educator, civic and religious activist born in Charleston, South Carolina. Fields was an influential leader in the South Carolina African-American women's club movement. A culmination of Fields' life is detailed in her memoir, Lemon Swamp and Other Places, co-written with her granddaughter, Karen Fields.The majority of the collection details Fields' involvement with the National...
Dates: 1894-1987; Majority of material found within 1945-1985

Donald Fraser papers

 Collection
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

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

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

"Inequities In Education In South Carolina" speech excerpts

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Identifier: Mss 0034-053
Collection Overview The folder contains a typescript copy of excerpts from a speech entitled "Inequities in Education in South Carolina." The speech was given by Butler to the Richland County Southern Regional Council. The speech was originally given on January 25, 1949 at Benedict College. In the speech, Butler outlines the inequities between segregated African American schools and white schools in South Carolina. The typescript is signed by James M. Hinton, who was the President of the South Carolina Chapter...
Dates: 1949

Esau Jenkins papers, 1963-2003

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Identifier: AMN 1004
Abstract Esau Jenkins (1910-1972) was born and raised on Johns Island, South Carolina. With very little formal education, he became a businessman and civil rights leader.The collection contains biographical papers, correspondence, writings, and information about his affliations, including the Progressive Club, Citizen's Committee of Charleston, Community Organization Credit Union, Political Action Committee of Charleston County, Political Awareness League of Charleston County, and the...
Dates: 1963-2003

Laing School records

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Identifier: AMN 1059
Abstract Laing School was founded January 29, 1866 by Cornelia Hancock (1839-1926), under the auspices of the Friends Association for the Aid and Elevation of the Freedmen of Philadelphia. The school began with 50 African American students in the damaged remains of the Mount Pleasant Presbyterian church in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. At different times, Laing served as an industrial school, a high school, middle school, and elementary school. In the early 1970s, the Charleston school system...
Dates: 1883-1990

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African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century 8
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African American children -- Education -- South Carolina -- Charleston 4
African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- History 4
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Public schools -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century 4
African American teenagers -- Education -- South Carolina -- Charleston 3
African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- Mount Pleasant 3
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston 3
Hospital Workers' Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1969 3
School buildings -- South Carolina -- Photographs 3
African American college teachers 2
African American educators -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
African American educators -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Photographs 2
African American schools -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
African American teachers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
African American universities and colleges 2
African American women -- South Carolina -- Societies and clubs 2
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 20th century 2
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston County -- History 2
Educators -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
High schools -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
Private schools -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
annual reports 2
correspondence 2
Africa -- Periodicals 1
Africa -- Social life and customs 1
African American businesspeople -- South Carolina 1
African American churches -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American churches -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Photographs 1
African American civil rights workers -- United States 1
African American college students 1
African American elementary schools -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American fraternal organizations 1
African American fraternal organizations -- 20th century -- Photographs 1
African American fraternal organizations -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American high school students -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American midwives -- South Carolina 1
African American photographers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American school administrators -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American school principals -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American school principals -- South Carolina -- James Island 1
African American school principals -- South Carolina -- Mount Pleasant 1
African American teachers -- South Carolina -- Mount Pleasant 1
African American teachers -- South Carolina -- Yonges Island 1
African American teachers -- Training of -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American women -- South Carolina -- Societies and clubs -- Photographs 1
African American women teachers -- South Carolina -- Yonges Island 1
African American women--Religious life 1
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century 1
African Americans -- Civil rights -- South Carolina 1
African Americans -- Civil rights -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African Americans -- Education 1
African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- James Island 1
African Americans -- Museums 1
African Americans -- Politics and government 1
African Americans -- Politics and government -- 20th century 1
African Americans -- Politics and government -- South Carolina 1
African Americans -- Race relations 1
African Americans -- Social conditions 1
African Americans -- Societies, etc. -- Photographs 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 19th century 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Social conditions 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Societies, etc. -- Photographs 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Johns Island (Island) -- Social conditions 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Mount Pleasant 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Segregation 1
African Americans -- Suffrage -- South Carolina 1
Archives 1
Avery Tiger 1
Bamberg County (S.C.) -- History 1
Black nationalism 1
Black people -- Congresses 1
Black people -- Periodicals 1
Black power -- United States 1
Black race -- Congresses 1
Boards of directors 1
Buildings -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Charleston County (S.C.) 1
Civil rights workers -- United States 1
College students -- Political activity -- History -- 20th century 1
Commencement ceremonies 1
Denmark (S.C.) -- History 1
Education -- South Carolina -- James Island 1
Education -- Study and teaching 1
Education -- 19th century 1
Education, Secondary -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Fraternal organizations -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Fraternal organizations -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Photographs 1
Fund raising 1
Hospital Workers' Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1969 -- Photographs 1
James Island (S.C.) -- History -- 20th century 1
Legal assistance to the poor -- South Carolina 1
Literacy tests (Election law) -- South Carolina 1
Oral histories 1
Photographs 1
Police-community relations -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Political action committees -- South Carolina 1
Porters -- Labor unions -- United States -- History 1
Pullman porters -- Photographs 1
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Names
Avery Normal Institute 9
Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture 5
Avery Research Center 4
American Missionary Association 2
Amistad Research Center 2
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Bonds-Wilson High School (Charleston, S.C.) 2
Butler, Susan Dart, 1888-1959 2
College of Charleston 2
DeCosta, Frank A. 2
Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.) 2
Murray, Albertha J., 1889-1969 2
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Charleston Branch (Charleston, S.C.) 2
South Carolina Federation of Colored Women's Clubs 2
Wilson, John T., 1910-1994 2
Al-Amin, Jamil, 1943- 1
All-African People's Revolutionary Party 1
Allen University 1
American Development Corporation (North Charleston, South Carolina) 1
Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture. Board of Directors 1
Baptist Hill High School 1
Bear, Elizabeth M. 1
Bennett College (Greensboro, N.C.) 1
Bethune, Mary McLeod, 1875-1955 1
Bettis Academy (Aiken County, S.C.) 1
Black Panther Party 1
Blacks United for Action 1
Bonds, J. R. (James Roosevelt), 1904-1992 1
Bonds, Lacy, 1910-1973 1
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters 1
Brown family 1
Brown, Arthur Felder, Jr. 1
Brown, J. Arthur, 1914-1988 1
Brown, Juanita W., 1937-2006 1
Brown, MaeDe E. M., 1918-2012 1
Brown, Millicent E. 1
Brown, Miriam M., 1901-2002 1
Brown, W. Melvin, Jr., 1934-1994 1
Brownlee, Frederick Leslie, 1883-1962 1
Butler, A. T. 1
Callen, Maude E., 1898-1990 1
Carmichael, Stokely, 1941-1998 1
Centenary United Methodist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Central Baptist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Chambers, Annette Graves, 1983- 1
Charleston Area Community Relations Committee (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Charleston County School District 1
Charleston County School District No. 20 (S.C.) 1
Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina 1
Citizens' Committee of Charleston (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Claflin College (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1
Clark, Septima Poinsette, 1898-1987 1
Cleaver, Eldridge, 1935-1998 1
Coastal Community Foundation 1
College of Charleston. Governor's School 1
Communist Workers Party (U.S.) 1
Community Organization Credit Union 1
Congress of African Peoples 1
Cut Gap Elementary School (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Dart Grammar and Primary School (Charleston, S.C.) 1
DeCosta family 1
DeCosta, Beautine Hubert, 1913-2008 1
DeCosta, Frank Augustus, Jr., 1935-1999 1
DeCosta-Willis, Miriam 1
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority 1
Drago, Edmund L. 1
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 1
Fields, Alfred B. 1
Fields, Karen E. (Karen Elise), 1945- 1
Fields, Mamie E. Garvin, 1888-1987 1
Florida State University 1
Friendly Moralist Society (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Friends' Association of Philadelphia for the Aid and Elevation of the Freedmen 1
Graves family 1
Graves, Eugene 1
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
Guilford College 1
Hampton Institute 1
Hancock, Cornelia, 1840-1927 1
Harvard University 1
Hinton, James M. 1
Hoursey, Alphonso H., 1900-1977 1
Howard University 1
Immaculate Conception School (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Jackson, Jesse, 1941- 1
Jenkins Orphanage Institute (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Jenkins family 1
Jenkins, Esau, 1910-1972 1
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 1
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) 1
LaSaine, Mary Alice, 1886-1957 1
Laing Elementary School (Mount Pleasant, S.C.) 1
Laing High School (Mount Pleasant, S.C.) 1
Laing Normal and Industrial School (Mount Pleasant, S.C.) 1
Laing School (Mount Pleasant, S.C.) 1
Links, Inc. Charleston Chapter 1
Malcolm X Liberation University 1
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