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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

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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

Virginia Geraty papers

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Identifier: AMN 1123
Abstract Virginia Mixson Geraty (1915-2004) was born in Summerville, South Carolina to Edward Miles Mixson and his wife Ethel Sarah Ray Mixson. Geraty attended Immaculate Catholic School at Hendersonville, North Carolina, where her family lived during part of her childhood. After the passing of her younger brother and father, Geraty and her family moved to Yonges Island, South Carolina. It was there on the island that Geraty became interested in Gullah, when she heard it being spoken by a family...
Dates: 1915-2007; Majority of material found within 1978-2004

Richard T. Greene, Sr. papers

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Identifier: AMN 1190
Abstract

The Richard T. Greene, Sr. papers, 1929-2006, document Richard's biographical information, his time as a student at the Avery Normal Institute, and his affiliation with the Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture. Materials include his resume, a biographical sketch, school event invitations and programs, class notes, school newspaper clippings, a scrapbook, and photographs.

Dates: 1929-2006

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

Harby Academy cashbook

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Identifier: Mss 1117
Abstract

The collection consists of a cashbook for Isaac Harby's academy in Charleston, South Carolina, recording tuition payments for enrolled students, as well as costs for stationary and occasionally firewood, from January 1819 through May 1820.

Dates: 1819-1820

Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim congregation records

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Identifier: Mss 1047
Collection Overview The records are arranged into 13 series: Board of Trustee Minutes (1838-1995) document all aspects of congregational life: hiring and firing staff, fundraising, building, etc. with some data re members, their infractions, marriages, deaths, etc. Financial records (1800-1999) document members, fines, income, salaries, pew assignments, various projects, estates, religious school finances, etc. Trustee and Rabbi Records and Correspondence (1855- 1991, bulk 1930s-1970s) including a few...
Dates: 1798-2002; Majority of material found within 20th century

Albertha Murray papers

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Identifier: AMN 1020
Abstract Albertha Johnston Murray (1889-1969) was an African American educator born in Charleston, South Carolina to William Henry and Mary Ellen Virgin Johnston. Murray retired from the teaching profession in 1959, and remained active in numerous educational, social, and humanitarian organizations. Murray-LaSaine Elementary School was named in her honor along with Mary Alice LaSaine. She married Richard Gailliard Murray and had one daughter, Hazel Albertha Murray Stewart. The collection consist of...
Dates: 1909-1970

Maggie Thurman Pennington papers

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Identifier: Mss 0070
Collection Overview The collection documents Dr. Pennington's career as a Biology teacher at the College of Charleston for 35 years. It includes her provisional appointment for three years, her reappointments on the recommendation of the Faculty Committee on Appointments, her permanent appointment without comment, her promotion to full professor in 1969, letters of appreciation from students, College memos by and to her, publications by her, minutes of the Steering Committee Career Conference for Women in 1974,...
Dates: 1952-1996

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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.) 6
American Missionary Association 4
College of Charleston 4
Avery Research Center 3
Brown, J. Arthur, 1914-1988 3
Brown, Millicent E. 3
Potts, John F., Sr., 1908-1998 3
Amistad Research Center 2
Brown family 2
Brown, MaeDe E. M., 1918-2012 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
Blake, James G., Rev., 1942-1999 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
Cornwell, Ruby Pendergrass, 1902-2003 1
Cut Gap Elementary School (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Daise, Natalie 1
Daise, Ron 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 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
Greene, Sylvia 1
Guilford College 1
Harby, Isaac, 1788-1828 1
Hicks, Judith Geraty, 1940-2011 1
High School of Charleston (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Hill, Lily 1
Hoursey, Alphonso W., 1900-1977 1
Howard University 1
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 1
Hunt, Eugene C. 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
Metz, Francis P., Rev., 1909-1999 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
Olivet Presbyterian Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1