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Anna D. Kelly papers

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Identifier: AMN 1083
Abstract Anna D. Kelly (1913-2007) is known for her efforts to connect Lowcountry African Americans with the Highlander Folk School, most notably recruiting Septima Clark. A graduate of the Avery Normal Institute in Charleston, South Carolina, Kelly was a charter member of the Avery Institute of African American History and Culture. She then played a crucial role in establishment of the Avery Research Center.The collection includes personal papers and photographs related to Anna D. Kelly...
Dates: 1930s-1999

Lecque family papers

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Identifier: AMN 1115
Abstract The Lecque family of Liberty Hill, South Carolina, was an African American family consisting largely of farmers and brickmasons. The family was one of the founding families of the Liberty Hill community (in North Charleston), which was established by Freedmen circa 1864-1867 along the railroad tracks to Mixon Avenue and along Montague Avenue. In 1871, William Lecque along with three other African American men (Ismael Grant, Aaron Middleton, and Plenty Lecque) established the oldest church in...
Dates: 1941-1990, 1997

Jane and William Pease papers

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Identifier: AMN 1019
Abstract Jane H. Pease (born 1929) and William H. Pease (born 1924), professors emeritus from the the University of Maine, Orono, and former associate professors at the College of Charleston, wrote numerous books and articles on abolition, slavery, the history of Charleston, and many other topics.The collection consists of research material created and collected by the Peases for numerous projects. The materials document the enslaved and free blacks in Charleston, South Carolina, national...
Dates: 1804-1992

Phillis Wheatley Literary and Social Club records

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Identifier: AMN 1031
Abstract The Phillis Wheatley Literary and Social Club was formed in 1916 under the direction of Jeannette Cox, wife of Avery Normal Institute principal Benjamin Cox. The club consisted of nineteen women members meeting to discuss literary works by such authors as W.E.B. DuBois, Carter G. Woodson and others. The club women also helped fulfill their mission to "lift as we climb" by taking an active role in Charleston's African American community by donating funds to such organizations as the YWCA,...
Dates: 1907-2017

Esther Kaplan Pivnick collection

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Identifier: AMN 1138
Abstract Esther Kaplan Pivnick (1913-2001), a former patternmaker from New York, retired on Johns Island, South Carolina in the mid-1970s. Along with historian Elizabeth "Betty" Stringfellow, she embarked on an ambitious project to write an inclusive history of Johns Island, (the largest Sea Island in South Carolina, approximately thirty miles south of Charleston), and incorporating the adjoining islands of Edisto, Wadmalaw, Kiawah and Seabrook. Their goal was to write a "peoples'...
Dates: 1663-2000, undated; Majority of material found within 1863-1999

South Carolina Civil and Human Rights Anthology

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Identifier: AMN 1197
Abstract The South Carolina Civil and Human Rights Anthology is an oral history project containing 18 interviews conducted by the Avery Research Center in 2004 and 2007. Participants discuss their family history and their involvement in organizing and activism work in South Carolina. Topics discussed include labor organizing and labor strikes, demonstrations during the Civil Rights Movement such as sit-ins and marches, voter registration and voter turnout efforts, the Orangeburg Massacre, and the...
Dates: 2004-2007

South Carolina Rosenwald Schools collection

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Identifier: AMN 1152
Abstract The Rosenwald Schools Initiative was founded by Tuskegee Institute founder, Booker T. Washington and Sears and Roebuck Co. president, Julius Rosenwald in 1912. Washington saw the need to build schools for African Americans, particularly in rural areas across the South and Rosenwald was looking for a charitable opportunity to support and expressed interest in the plight of the Black community. Although Washington passed away in late 1915, the Rosenwald Fund went on to support the creation of...
Dates: 1912-2005, 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

Judge J. Waties and Elizabeth Waring papers

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Identifier: AMN 1033
Abstract Julius Waties Waring (1880-1968), a Charleston native and attorney became a Federal Judge in 1942. At the time of his divorce and remarriage in 1945 to Elizabeth A. Hoffman (1895-1966), he began to hand down more liberal decisions, such as equalizing the pay of black and white teachers and outlawing South Carolina's white-only Democratic Primary. He soon ruled that separate but equal was per se inequality. Because he and his wife socialized with African Americans and held...
Dates: approximately 1947-1964

Peter H. Wood papers

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Identifier: AMN 1131
Abstract Peter Hutchins Wood (1943-), is a American historian who authored, "Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion." Wood was a Humanities Officer for the Rockefeller Foundation before teaching Colonial American history at Duke University from 1975 to 2008, where he was named Professor Emertius of History. Wood wrote the original version of "Black Majority" as his PhD dissertation at Harvard University, which was published in 1974.The...
Dates: 1964-1974; Majority of material found within 1973-1974

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African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century 8
Hospital Workers' Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1969 6
African American civil rights workers -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century 4
African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- History 4
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 4
Public schools -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century 4
South Carolina -- History -- 1865- 4
African American children -- Education -- South Carolina -- Charleston 3
African Americans -- Civil rights -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 20th century 3
African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- Charleston 3
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston 3
Civil rights demonstrations 3
Civil rights movements -- South Carolina -- Charleston 3
Community organizers 3
Political action committees -- South Carolina 3
Race discrimination -- South Carolina -- History 3
transcripts 3
African American activists 2
African American educators -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
African American families -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
African American schools -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
African American women -- South Carolina -- Societies and clubs 2
African American women civil rights workers 2
African Americans -- Civil rights -- South Carolina 2
African Americans -- Civil rights -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
African Americans -- Education 2
African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina 2
African Americans -- Genealogy 2
African Americans -- History 2
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Societies, etc. -- Photographs 2
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston County -- History 2
Bricklayers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
Cigar Factory Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1945-1946 2
Education -- South Carolina -- Johns Island (Island) 2
Educators -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
Fraternal organizations -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
High schools -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
Johns Island (S.C. : Island) -- Economic conditions 2
Oral histories 2
Political participation 2
School buildings -- South Carolina -- Photographs 2
Segregation in education -- South Carolina -- History 2
South Carolina -- History 2
Voter registration -- Southern States 2
administrative records 2
clippings (information artifacts) 2
correspondence 2
financial records 2
Abolitionists -- United States -- Biography 1
Abolitionists -- United States -- History -- 19th century 1
Activism 1
Activists 1
Africa -- Social life and customs 1
African American Methodists 1
African American businesspeople -- South Carolina 1
African American cemeteries -- South Carolina 1
African American children -- Institutional care -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American children -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American churches 1
African American churches -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American churches -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Photographs 1
African American churches -- South Carolina -- Johns Island (Island) 1
African American dentists 1
African American educators -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Photographs 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 journalists -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American labor union members -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American midwives -- South Carolina 1
African American nurses -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American photographers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American police -- South Carolina -- Charleston County -- Biography 1
African American political activists -- South Carolina -- Charleston 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 teenagers -- Education -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American women -- Social conditions 1
African American women -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Intellectual life 1
African American women -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Social life and customs 1
African American women -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Societies and clubs 1
African American women -- South Carolina -- Societies and clubs -- Photographs 1
African American women teachers 1
African American women teachers -- South Carolina -- Yonges Island 1
African Americans -- Canada 1
African Americans -- Civil rights 1
African Americans -- Civil rights -- South Carolina -- Rock Hill -- History 1
African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- Mount Pleasant 1
African Americans -- History -- To 1863 1
African Americans -- Museums 1
African Americans -- Politics and government -- 20th century 1
African Americans -- Politics and government -- South Carolina 1
African Americans -- Press coverage -- United States 1
African Americans -- Relations with Hispanic Americans 1
African Americans -- Religion 1
African Americans -- Sea Islands -- Social life and customs 1
African Americans -- Social conditions 1
African Americans -- Social conditions -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century 1
Names
Avery Normal Institute 10
Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture 5
Clark, Septima Poinsette, 1898-1987 4
Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.) 4
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Charleston Branch (Charleston, S.C.) 4
Avery Research Center 3
Jenkins, Esau, 1910-1972 3
Robinson, Bernice, 1914-1994 3
Southern Christian Leadership Conference 3
Bonds-Wilson High School (Charleston, S.C.) 2
Carawan, Guy 2
Citizens' Committee of Charleston (Charleston, S.C.) 2
College of Charleston 2
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 2
Hampton Institute 2
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 2
Marshall, Thurgood, 1908-1993 2
Moultrie, Mary, 1943-2015 2
United States Commission on Civil Rights. South Carolina Advisory Committee 2
Waring, Elizabeth 2
Waring, Julius Waties, 1880-1968 2
Wilson, John T., 1910-1994 2
Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990 1
Alexander, Camille D. 1
Allen University 1
Allen, William Francis, 1830-1889 1
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority 1
Amistad Research Center 1
Amos-Frazier, Marjorie, 1926-2010 1
Andell, Charles John, 1837-1876 1
Andell, William, 1845-1932 1
Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture. Board of Directors 1
Baptist Hill High School 1
Bear, Elizabeth M. 1
Bell family 1
Bell, Hiram Lewis 1
Bell, James A. (James Augustus) 1
Bell, Louise Purvis 1
Bethel United Methodist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Black Lives Matter Charleston (2014-2018) (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Blacks United for Action 1
Blake, J. Herman 1
Bonds, J. R. (James Roosevelt), 1904-1992 1
Bonds, Lacy, 1910-1973 1
Bouffard, Jean Claude 1
Bricklayers, Masons, and Plasterers International Union of America. Local No. 1 (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Briggs, Harry, -1986 1
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters 1
Brown Fellowship Society (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Brown, Arthur Felder, Jr. 1
Brown, J. Arthur, 1914-1988 1
Brown, Millicent E. 1
Brown, Miriam M., 1901-2002 1
Callen, Maude E., 1898-1990 1
Camp Saint Christopher (Seabrook Island, S.C.) 1
Carawan, Candie 1
Carmichael, Stokely, 1941-1998 1
Carson, Josephine, 1919- 1
Century Fellowship Society (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Chambers, Annette Graves, 1983- 1
Charleston Area Community Relations Committee (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Charleston City Paper (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Charleston County (S.C.). Police Department 1
Charleston County School District 1
Charleston Jewish Federation (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Childs, St. Julien Ravenel, 1897-1983 1
Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina 1
Cole, John S. 1
Coming Street YWCA (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Community Organization Credit Union 1
Cornwell, Ruby Pendergrass, 1902-2003 1
Crawford, Robert, 1953- 1
Cupp, Ruth Williams, 1928- 1
Curnell, Denzel, 1995-2014 1
Dabbs, James McBride, 1896-1970 1
DeCosta family 1
DeCosta, Beautine Hubert, 1913-2008 1
DeCosta, Frank A. 1
DeCosta, Frank Augustus, Jr., 1935-1999 1
DeCosta-Willis, Miriam 1
DeReef family 1
Deweese family 1
Doster, Lillie M., 1922-2015 1
Duckett, Dewey M., 1900-1964 1
Duckett, Dewey M., 1929-2012 1
Elgin Association 1
Elgin Society 1
Elliott, R. W. 1
Emanuel AME Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Fielding, Bernard R., Sr., 1932-2020 1
Fielding, Herbert U., 1923-2015 1
Foster, Stephen S. (Stephen Symonds), 1809-1881 1
Frazier, Herb, 1950- 1
Friendly Union Cemetery (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Giddings, Joshua R. (Joshua Reed), 1795-1864 1
Girls Rock Charleston (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Goodwin, Willis 1
Graves family 1
Graves, Eugene 1
Graves, J. Michael (James Michael), 1915-1996 1