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Ludwig Lewisohn papers

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Identifier: Mss 0028
Collection Overview Papers document mostly Lewisohn's friendship and early homosexual love affair with poet George Sylvester Viereck and Lewisohn's later marriage to Edna Manley. Correspondence (1903-1955) between Lewisohn and Viereck is mostly on literary matters; but early holograph poems by Lewisohn refer to their love affair. Other poems include printed and typescript copies and his English translations of some poems by Rainer Maria Rilke.Most of the collection documents the relationship of...
Dates: 1903-1980s; Majority of material found within 1940s

Charlotte A. Myers collection

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Identifier: Mss 0213
Abstract The collection contains correspondence and newspaper clippings relating to Charlotte A. Myers’ divorce from literary critic and poet Rufus Wilmot Griswold. Materials also relate to Caroline Griswold, a writer and Griswold’s daughter from his first marriage, who was raised by Myers. There are also daguerreotype portraits of Myers and Caroline Griswold and a commonplace book assembled by Myers. The papers also cover correspondence between Griswold’s grandchildren and Joy Bayless, author of the...
Dates: 1818-1943

Hugo Schiller papers

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Identifier: Mss 1065-006
Abstract

Correspondence, newspaper clippings, memoirs, and other papers of Hugo Schiller. Materials relate to Schiller's rescue from the Gurs concentration camp in France by Alice Resch Synnestvedt, a Quaker volunteer from Norway; his time at Aspet, the Quaker children's home; and his eventual escape from France to the United States. Correspondence includes letters from his parents and aunt while he was at Aspet, discussing their life in Gurs and advice for Schiller after his rescue.

Dates: 1942-2001

Vera Nathans Semel papers

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Identifier: Mss 1065-016
Abstract Photographs, birth certificates, marriage certificates, identity cards, passports, and other papers of Vera Nathans Semel, a Dutch Jew who survived World War II in hiding. Most papers, including birth and marriage certificates, relate to Nathans's maternal family, the Paerls. Pre-war photographs show Nathans's maternal grandparents and uncle in Amsterdam; post-war photographs show her, her parents, husband, and children in Beverwijk and Bussum, both in the Netherlands, and in Scarsdale, New...
Dates: 1830-1996

South Carolina Voices of the Civil Rights Movement Conference

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Identifier: AMN 1196
Abstract The South Carolina Voices of the Civil Rights Movement Conference collection documents the 1982 conference held by the Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture. The conference hosted community organizers and scholars to discuss the Civil Rights Movement in South Carolina with sessions on voting and political action, labor, education, the culture of the movement, the Highlander influence, the youth movement, civic and political action, and redress and protest. Oral histories were...
Dates: 1982

Francine Ajzensztark Taylor papers

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Identifier: Mss 1065-010
Abstract

Photographs and false identification papers of Francine Ajzensztark Taylor, a Polish-born Jew raised in France before World War II. Photographs depict her and her family members in pre-war England and Poland, as well as in France before, during, and after the war. Also includes four videocassette programs, including two detailed interviews with Taylor in which she discusses her life in France before, during, and after the war.

Dates: 1913-1998

Lucille Simmons Whipper papers

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Identifier: AMN 1146
Abstract Lucille Simmons Whipper (1928-2021), an educator, guidance counselor, academic administrator, community, and religious leader and the first African-American woman to serve as an State of South Carolina House of Representatives in Charleston's District 109 (1986-1996). She exercised her activism with her graduating class at Avery Institute in their attempts to desegregate the College of Charleston in 1944. Decades later, Whipper was instrumental in working with the State of South Carolina and...
Dates: 1900-2016, undated

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African American children -- Education -- South Carolina -- Charleston 6
clippings (information artifacts) 6
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) 5
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correspondence 5
photocopies 4
African American teenagers -- Education -- South Carolina -- Charleston 3
African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- Charleston 3
black-and-white negatives 3
black-and-white slides 3
photographs 3
African American churches 2
Bussum (Netherlands) 2
Charleston (S.C.) 2
Charleston County (S.C.) 2
Custody of children -- United States 2
Hidden children (Holocaust) -- Netherlands 2
Holocaust survivors -- Netherlands 2
Jewish children in the Holocaust -- France 2
Jewish children in the Holocaust -- Netherlands 2
Photographs 2
Private schools -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
South Carolina -- History -- 1865- 2
diaries 2
digital images 2
facsimiles (reproductions) 2
identity cards 2
memoirs 2
transcripts 2
videocassettes 2
Adolescence 1
Affirmative Action programs 1
African American Activists 1
African American History Month 1
African American Methodists 1
African American children -- Institutional care -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American children -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American civil rights workers -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century 1
African American educators -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American elementary schools -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American families -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American high school students -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American labor union members -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
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African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- Mount Pleasant 1
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Amsterdam (Netherlands) 1
Aspet (France) 1
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Avery Tiger 1
Beverwijk (Netherlands) 1
Boards of directors 1
Bricklayers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
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Charleston (S.C.) -- Race relations 1
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Children and adults -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- 20th century 1
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Cigar Factory Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1945-1946 1
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France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 1
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Gay people -- Violence against -- South Carolina 1
Gay people in advertising -- South Carolina 1
Gay rights -- South Carolina 1
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Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture 4
Avery Normal Institute 4
Avery Research Center 2
Whipper, Benjamin James, 1912-1998 2
100 Black Men of America, Inc. 1
100 Black Men of Charleston 1
Adkins, Diny K., 1938- 1
Alliance for Full Acceptance 1
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. Gamma Xi Omega Chapter (Charleston, S.C.) 1
American Friends Service Committee 1
Angress, Werner T. 1
Baptist Ministers' Wives and Ministers' Widows of Charleston County (S.C.) 1
Bayless, Joy 1
Benedict College 1
Berkeley-Charleston-Dorchester Council of Governments 1
Boroughs, Zig 1
Brown, J. Arthur, 1914-1988 1
Charleston County Legislative Delegation 1
Charleston County School District 1
Charleston Pride Festival, Inc. 1
Chisholm, Shirley, 1924-2005 1
Cole, John S. 1
Cupp, Ruth Williams, 1928- 1
Feuchtwanger, Lion, 1884-1958 1
Freeman Foundation 1
Glenn, Chase 1
Griswold, M. Caroline 1
Griswold, Rufus W. (Rufus Wilmot), 1815-1857 1
Gurs (Concentration camp) 1
Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.) 1
Immaculate Conception School (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Jakobs, Edith 1
Jenkins Orphanage (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Jenkins' Orphanage Band 1
Jenkins, Daniel Joseph, 1862-1937 1
Jervey, Theodore D. (Theodore Dehon), 1859-1947 1
Ketner, Linda 1
Laing School (Mount Pleasant, S.C.) 1
Lecque family 1
Lewisohn, Edna, 1908- 1
Lewisohn, James 1
Lewisohn, Ludwig, 1882-1955 1
Lewisohn, Thelma Spear 1
McCray, John Henry, 1910-1987 1
Melnick, Ralph 1
Miller, Henry, 1891-1980 1
Myers, Charlotte 1
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Charleston Branch (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Orphan Aid Society (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Paerl family 1
Perdix, Elizabeth 1
Redman-Gress, Warren 1
Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926 1
Schiller, Hugo, 1931- 1
Semel, Vera Nathans, 1943- 1
Smith, Charlie 1
South Carolina Equality Coalition 1
Synnestvedt, Alice Resch, 1908- 1
Taylor, Francine Ajzensztark, 1928- 1
United States. Army. Parachute Infantry Regiment, 508th 1
Viereck, George Sylvester, 1884-1962 1
We Are Family (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Whipper, Lucille, 1928-2021 1
Wise, Stephen S. (Stephen Samuel), 1874-1949 1
Woods, Delbert L., 1913-1991 1