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John F. Potts Sr. papers

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Identifier: AMN 1036
Abstract John Foster Potts, Sr. (1908-1998), African American educator and author, was born in Hot Springs, Arkansas to Leila Snead and John Moultrie Potts. Potts worked as a teacher and principal in numerous schools including Avery Institute, where he served until it closed in 1954. Potts married Muriel Logan and had five children.The collection includes material relating to Potts' personal and professional life. His biographical papers include an unpublished autobiography, as well as...
Dates: 1885-2005

Muriel Logan Potts papers

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Identifier: AMN 1191
Abstract Muriel Logan Potts, an educator, school librarian, and the wife of John Foster Potts, Sr. the last principal of Avery Institute.The collections contain brief and scattered documents relating to Muriel Potts, the Logan and Potts Families. Holds several documents pertaining Logan Potts' education at Virginia State College, and her affilation with Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority (AKA). Of interest are letters to and from her husband, John F. Potts, Sr. to American Missionary Association...
Dates: 1928-1994, and undated

Research notes on education in Charleston

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Identifier: Mss 0100
Collection Overview The collection consists of typescripts from the Charleston newspapers noting anything related to education. The information included is primarily about all aspects of the College of Charleston, but is often about private grammar schools and is sometimes about local scientific work. Meetings of scientific and literary organizations were regularly noted particularly those of the Literary and Philosophical Society of South Carolina, whose museum became the basis for the College of Charleston...
Dates: approximately 1934-approximately 1948

Research on education in Charleston, S.C.

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Identifier: Mss 0014
Collection Overview

Typescript annotated listing and abstracts of articles (1767-1886) from South Carolina periodicals concerning various aspects of education in Charleston (S.C.). Periodicals used include the South Carolina Gazette, the Southern Patriot, the Charleston Courier, the Columbian Herald, and the News and Courier. These materials may have been part of the research for J.H. Easterby's A History of the College of Charleston (1935).

Dates: approximately 1930

Lois A. Simms papers

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Identifier: AMN 1118
Abstract Lois A. Simms was born in Charleston, S.C. She was the 1937 class valedictorian at the Avery Normal Institute. Simms continued her education at Barber Scotia Junior College and later received a B.A. in English and Social Studies at Johnson C. Smith University in 1941. She completed her Master of Arts in Education at Howard University in 1954 and did postgraduate work at Syracuse University and The Citadel. Simms has taught at various schools in the Charleston, SC area including the Avery...
Dates: 1920-2003, undated

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

Wilmot J. Fraser Elementary School collection

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Identifier: AMN 1129
Abstract The former Wilmot J. Fraser Elementary School was located at 63 Columbus Street, on the downtown peninsula of Charleston, South Carolina. The predominately African-American public school was opened in 1957. As a part of the Charleston School District 20's redesign plan, Fraser Elementary closed at the conclusion of the 2008-2009 school year. Initially know as the Columbus Street School, the institution was renamed for Wilmot Jefferson Fraser (1905-1979), an African-American educator and...
Dates: 1987-1994; Majority of material found within 1990-1993

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Charleston (S.C.) -- History 2
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Hospital Workers' Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1969 2
annual reports 2
correspondence 2
financial records 2
minutes (administrative records) 2
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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