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100 Black Men of Charleston records

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Identifier: AMN 1085
Abstract 100 Black Men of Charleston, Inc., established in 1996, is a local chapter of 100 Black Men of America, a national organization that dedicates time and financial assistance to programs and facilities that assist youth in communities of particular need. Many programs implemented by the organization involve mentoring and education. The collection consists of materials relating to the establishment, operation, and development of 100 Black Men of Charleston, Inc. Administrative records include...
Dates: 1995-2008

Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture Oral History Project

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Identifier: AMN 1057
Abstract The Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture Oral History Project brings together oral history projects coordinated by the Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture (AIAAHC) as well as individual oral histories conducted by members of the Institute. The majority of the oral histories were done as a part of the Avery Normal Institute Oral History Project which sought to document the experiences and perceptions of former students, teachers, principals, and community...
Dates: 1980-1996

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

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 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

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

Juanita W. Brown papers

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Identifier: AMN 1178
Abstract Juanita Washington Brown (1937-2006), a Charleston, South Carolina native was an educator, business owner and philanthropist. After her husband, William Melvin Brown, Jr. passed in 1994, Juanita became the Chief Executive Officer of their company, American Development Corporation (ADCOR), a defense contractor in North Charleston.Brown's papers highlight her life as an educator, religious, civic, and social organizational leader, and philanthropist. A majority of the collection...
Dates: 1900-2011, and undated; Majority of material found in 1955-2005

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 County Black School Directory collection

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Identifier: AMN 1181
Abstract

Originally titled, "The Directory of Charleston County Black Schools," this project was organized by staff and volunteers at the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture, circa 1991. The goal was to identify and research Charleston School District public elementary and high schools which taught Black students. The project also included the identification of kindergartens, private residential and parochial schools.

Dates: 1930-1991, and undated; Majority of material found in 1989-1991, and undated

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African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- Charleston 13
Education -- South Carolina -- Charleston 7
African American children -- Education -- South Carolina -- Charleston 6
Private schools -- South Carolina -- Charleston 4
African American school principals -- South Carolina -- Charleston 3
African American teachers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 3
African American teenagers -- Education -- South Carolina -- Charleston 3
Oral histories 3
Segregation in education -- South Carolina -- Charleston 3
scrapbooks 3
transcripts 3
African American educators -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
African American high school students -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
African American school administrators -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
African American schools -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
African American teachers -- Training of -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
African Americans -- Civil rights -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
African Americans -- Civil rights -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 20th century 2
African Americans -- Sea Islands -- Social life and customs 2
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
Bridge clubs 2
Charleston (S.C.) -- History 2
Civil rights movements -- United States 2
Education -- Study and teaching 2
Hospital Workers' Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1969 2
annual reports 2
correspondence 2
financial records 2
minutes (administrative records) 2
African American Activists 1
African American bankers 1
African American business enterprises 1
African American businesspeople -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American civil rights workers 1
African American civil rights workers -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century 1
African American civil rights workers -- United States 1
African American college teachers 1
African American educators -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Photographs 1
African American educators -- United States -- 20th century 1
African American elementary schools -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American fraternal organizations 1
African American high school students -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Periodicals 1
African American labor union members -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American political activists -- United States -- 20th century 1
African American school principals -- New York (State) -- New York -- 20th century 1
African American school principals -- South Carolina -- James Island 1
African American social reformers -- United States -- 20th century 1
African American soldiers 1
African American teachers -- New York (State) -- New York -- 20th century 1
African American teachers -- South Carolina -- Yonges Island 1
African American teachers -- Tanzania -- 20th century 1
African American universities and colleges 1
African American women 1
African American women -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Societies and clubs 1
African American women -- South Carolina -- Societies and clubs 1
African American women teachers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 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 -- Education -- South Carolina -- James Island 1
African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina 1
African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- History 1
African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century 1
African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- Mount Pleasant 1
African Americans -- History -- Study and teaching 1
African Americans -- North Carolina -- Flat Rock 1
African Americans -- Poetry 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 20th century 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Social life and customs 1
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Algebra -- Study and teaching (Middle school) -- South Carolina 1
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Avery Tiger 1
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Charleston (S.C.) -- Drama 1
Charleston (S.C.) -- Intellectual life 1
Charleston County (S.C.) 1
Children and adults -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- 20th century 1
Cigar Factory Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1945-1946 1
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Civil rights lawyers -- South Carolina 1
Civil rights movements -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Civil rights workers -- United States 1
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Creole dialects, English -- South Carolina 1
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Education -- South Carolina -- James Island 1
Education -- 19th century 1
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Education -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 1
Education -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Research 1
Education, Secondary -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Flat Rock (Henderson County, N.C.) 1
Gullah cooking 1
Gullah women 1
Gullahs 1
Gullahs -- History 1
Names
Avery Normal Institute 11
Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture 6
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Charleston Branch (Charleston, S.C.) 5
American Missionary Association 4
College of Charleston 4
Avery Research Center 3
Brown, J. Arthur, 1914-1988 3
Potts, John F., Sr., 1908-1998 3
Amistad Research Center 2
Brown family 2
Brown, MaeDe E. M., 1918-2012 2
Brown, Millicent E. 2
Brownlee, Frederick Leslie, 1883-1962 2
Butler, Susan Dart, 1888-1959 2
Harleston, Edwin Augustus, 1882-1931 2
Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.) 2
Murray, Albertha J., 1889-1969 2
Omega Psi Phi Fraternity 2
Potts family 2
South Carolina Federation of Colored Women's Clubs 2
Voorhees College 2
100 Black Men of America, Inc. 1
100 Black Men of Charleston 1
American Development Corporation (North Charleston, S.C.) 1
Baptist Hill High School 1
Bennett College (Greensboro, N.C.) 1
Bethune, Mary McLeod, 1875-1955 1
Bettis Academy (Trenton, S.C.) 1
Brown, Juanita W., 1937-2006 1
Brown, W. Melvin, Jr., 1934-1994 1
Burke High School (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Campbell, James E., 1925-2021 1
Career Conference for Women. Steering Committee 1
Centenary United Methodist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Central Baptist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Charleston County School District 1
Charleston County School District No. 20 (S.C.) 1
Charleston Museum (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina 1
Claflin College (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1
Clark, Septima Poinsette, 1898-1987 1
Coastal Community Foundation 1
Cole, John S. 1
College of Charleston. Governor's School 1
College of Charleston. Museum 1
Coming Street Cemetery (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Committee on Better Racial Assurance 1
Cut Gap Elementary School (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Dart Grammar and Primary School (Charleston, S.C.) 1
DeCosta, Frank A. 1
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority 1
Drago, Edmund L. 1
Easterby, J. H. (James Harold), 1898-1960 1
Evans, Virginia Geraty, 1939-2021 1
Fields, Alfred B. 1
Fields, Karen E. (Karen Elise), 1945- 1
Fields, Mamie E. Garvin, 1888-1987 1
Florida State University 1
Fraser, Wilmot Jefferson, 1905-1979 1
Friendly Moralist Society (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Geraty, Edward Mixson 1
Geraty, Virginia Mixson 1
Greene, Richard T., 1913-2006 1
Guilford College 1
Harby, Isaac, 1788-1828 1
Hicks, Judith Geraty, 1940-2011 1
High School of Charleston (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Hoursey, Alphonso H., 1900-1977 1
Howard University 1
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 1
Immaculate Conception School (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Jenkins Orphanage Institute (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim (Charleston, S.C.) Brotherhood 1
Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim (Charleston, S.C.). Sisterhood 1
LaSaine, Mary Alice, 1886-1957 1
Laing School (Mount Pleasant, S.C.) 1
Links, Inc. Charleston Chapter 1
Literary and Philosophical Society of South-Carolina 1
Logan family 1
Mandela, Nelson, 1918-2013 1
Marion Birnie Wilkinson Home for Girls (Cayce, S.C.) 1
Massenburg, Joyce 1
McClennan-Banks Memorial Hospital (Charleston, S.C.) 1
McCray, John Henry, 1910-1987 1
McGehearty family 1
Morton, Ruth, 1900-1989 1
Murray-LaSaine Elementary School (Charleston, S.C.) 1
National League of American Pen Women 1
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University 1
Oakes, Ziba B., 1806-1871 1
Organization of Afro-American Unity 1
Pennington, Maggie Thurman 1
Phillis Wheatley Literary and Social Club (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Potts, Muriel Logan, 1920-2008 1
Reformed Society of Israelites (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Rivers High School (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Rosenberg, Anita Moïse Rosefield 1
Shabazz, Betty 1
Shearith Israel Congregation (Charleston, S.C.) 1