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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 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 Research Center Lowcountry oral histories

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Identifier: AMN 1195
Abstract The Avery Research Center Lowcountry oral histories collection brings together individual oral history interviews mostly conducted by Avery Research Center employees with people who are from the South Carolina Lowcountry or lived and worked in the Lowcountry while adults. A handful of oral histories that were donated to the Avery Research Center, but not conducted by Avery Research Center employees, are also included in this collection. A wide range of topics are discussed in these oral...
Dates: 1976-2019

Jean Claude Bouffard Civil Rights Interviews

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Identifier: AMN 1204
Abstract The Jean Claude Bouffard Civil Rights interviews collection, 1982, contains five oral history interviews with Septima Clark, Mary Moultrie, and Bernice Robinson as well as recordings of lectures that Septima Clark and Thomas R. Waring, Jr. gave to Bouffard's College of Charleston class in the summer of 1982. Participants discuss a wide range of topics including their family history and upbringing, their involvement in the Civil Rights Movement and organizing, African American leaders during...
Dates: 1982

Guy and Candie Carawan Sea Island recordings

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Identifier: AMN 1203
Abstract

The Guy and Candie Carawan Sea Island recordings, 1960-1969, collection contains field recordings and oral history interviews documenting Gullah Geechee life and culture in rural Johns Island. The recordings were created, first, during the Carawan's time assisting the Island's Citizenship School and, later, when they lived on the Island from 1963 to 1965. The collection consists of reel-to-reel tapes, audiocassettes, and transcripts.

Dates: circa 1959-1969

Charleston Five collection

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Identifier: AMN 1124
Abstract The Charleston Five, Elijah Ford Jr., Ricky Simmons, Peter Washington, Jason Edgerton and Kenneth Jefferson were brought up on felony riot charges following a confrontation on the Charleston docks with law enforcement. The Charleston Five Collection contains correspondence, legal documents, financial documents, literary productions, printed materials and video material all pertaining to the published work of Suzan Erem and Paul Durrenberger. The collection is arranged into four series:...
Dates: 1921-2008; Majority of material found within 1998-2005

Dart Library Oral History Project

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Identifier: AMN 1200
Abstract The Dart Library Oral History Project contains five oral histories documenting individuals' experiences of using the library at Dart Hall and attending dances in the second floor of the Hall. Participants also discuss family history, their memories of Jim Crow segregration in Charleston, and their professional careers. The oral history project was undertaken by the Avery Research Center as part of the 85th anniversary commemoration of the John L. Dart Library. The oral histories were...
Dates: 2012

Director's Cut Oral History Project

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Identifier: AMN 1209
Abstract The Director's Cut Oral History Project is a series of six video oral history interviews recorded in 2025 with current and former living directors of the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture. Participants discuss a wide variety of topics including their professional lives, what brought them to Avery, accomplishments and challenges from their tenure, the role the Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture and Averyites from the Avery Normal Institute played...
Dates: 2025

East Side Oral History Project

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Identifier: AMN 1199
Abstract The East Side Oral History Project collection contains three oral history interviews conducted by Elizabeth Alston as part of the research process for the Charleston Museum Leaflet Number 30, Between the Tracks: The Heritage of Charleston’s East Side Community. Included in the collection are transcripts of the oral histories conducted with Lorraine Fordham, Frances Mack, and Phillip Simmons. In their interviews, interviewees discuss growing up on the East...
Dates: approximately 1980-1987

Friendly Moralist Society records

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Identifier: AMN 1009
Abstract The Friendly Moralist Society was a benevolent society, established in Charleston South Carolina, 1838 for free men of color (mulatto or mixed race). The group served the community by providing burial aid, purchasing plots and assisting during funerals, for those in need. The organization also worked to provide charitable assistance to needy widows and orphans of deceased members. Each member was entitled to certain rights of membership, namely financial assistance in times of illness or...
Dates: 1841-1856, and undated

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Oral histories 10
Hospital Workers' Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1969 4
African American civil rights workers -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century 3
African Americans -- Civil rights -- South Carolina -- Charleston 3
Cigar Factory Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1945-1946 3
Civil rights demonstrations 3
Civil rights movements -- South Carolina -- Charleston 3
Community organizers 3
correspondence 3
African American activists 2
African American children -- Education -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
African American educators -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
African American labor union members -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
African American soldiers 2
African American women civil rights workers 2
African Americans -- Civil rights -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 20th century 2
DVDs 2
Gullahs 2
Gullahs -- South Carolina -- Social life and customs 2
Sweetgrass baskets 2
Voter registration -- Southern States 2
audiocassettes 2
interviews 2
minutes (administrative records) 2
photocopies 2
African American academic libraries 1
African American basket makers 1
African American business enterprises 1
African American businesspeople -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American churches -- South Carolina -- Johns Island (Island) 1
African American educators 1
African American families -- South Carolina 1
African American families -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American fraternal organizations -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American high school students -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American jazz musicians -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American judges 1
African American leadership 1
African American librarians -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American musicians 1
African American neighborhoods -- South Carolina 1
African American nurses -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American political activists -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American politicians 1
African American school administrators -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American school principals -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American teachers -- Training of -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American women -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Societies and clubs 1
African American women politicians 1
African Americans -- Civil rights -- South Carolina 1
African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African Americans -- Music 1
African Americans -- Race relations 1
African Americans -- Sea Islands -- Social life and customs 1
African Americans -- South Carolina 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Atlantic Beach -- History 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 19th century 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Social life and customs 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Societies, etc. 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Johns Island (Island) -- Social conditions 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Johns Island (Island) -- Social life and customs 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Politics and government -- 20th century 1
African Americans in the civil service 1
Architecture -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Archives -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Archives and education 1
Associations, institutions, etc. -- African American membership 1
Atlantic Beach (S.C.) 1
Blues (Music) 1
Bridge clubs 1
Charleston (S.C.) -- History -- 20th century 1
Church music 1
Church records and registers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Civil rights lawyers -- South Carolina 1
Clothing and dress -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- 20th century 1
Conferences 1
Dance halls 1
Direct action 1
Discrimination in public accommodations 1
Drayton Hall (S.C.) -- History 1
East Side (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Emigration and immigration 1
Enslaved persons -- South Carolina -- Colleton County 1
Family histories 1
Field recordings 1
Fraternal organizations -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Free African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Free African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Societies, etc. 1
Geechees 1
Geechees -- South Carolina -- Social life and customs 1
Gentrification -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Gospel music 1
Historic buildings -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Hospitals -- Employees -- Labor unions -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Immigrants -- United States 1
Jewish composers -- Tennessee -- Nashville 1
Jewish families 1
Jewish musicians -- Tennessee -- Nashville 1
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Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture 3
Avery Normal Institute 3
Avery Research Center 2
Fielding, Herbert U., 1923-2015 2
Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.) 2
Moultrie, Mary, 1943-2015 2
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Charleston Branch (Charleston, S.C.) 2
Saunders, William, 1935- 2
Southern Christian Leadership Conference 2
Washington, McKinley, Jr., Rev., 1936-2022 2
Alston, Elizabeth 1
Amos-Frazier, Marjorie, 1926-2010 1
Bouffard, Jean Claude 1
Brown, J. Arthur, 1914-1988 1
Butler, Tamara T. 1
Byrd, Alma W. 1
Carawan, Candie 1
Carawan, Guy 1
Chandler, Karen A. 1
Charleston Naval Shipyard 1
Clark, Septima Poinsette, 1898-1987 1
Cole, John S. 1
College of Charleston 1
Crawford, Robert, 1953- 1
Dart Hall (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Davis, Norma Hoffman, 1940- 1
DeReef family 1
Doster, Lillie M., 1922-2015 1
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 1
Dulaney, W. Marvin, 1950- 1
Durrenberger, E. Paul, 1943- 1
Edison, Robert 1
Erem, Suzan 1
Fielding, Bernard R., Sr., 1932-2020 1
Fields, Richard E., 1920- 1
Finney, Ernest A., Jr. (Ernest Adolphus), 1931-2017 1
Fordham, Lorraine 1
Friendly Moralist Society (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Glascoe, Myrtle Gonza 1
Glover, Maggie W., 1948- 1
Goodwin, Willis 1
Hamer, Fritz P. 1
Holloway family 1
International Longshoremen's Association. Local 1422 (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Jenkins, Esau, 1910-1972 1
John L. Dart Library (Charleston, S.C.) 1
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 1
Laing School (Mount Pleasant, S.C.) 1
Lee, Brenda, 1948- 1
Links, Inc. Charleston Chapter 1
Loftus, Marla 1
Mack, David J., III, 1953-2023 1
Mack, Frances T., 1919-2015 1
McCottry-Smith, Cynthia 1
McCray, Jack 1
McCray, John Henry, 1910-1987 1
Moore, Fred H., 1934- 1
National Council of Negro Women 1
Olschwanger family 1
Olswanger, Anna, 1953- 1
Olswanger, Berl, -1981 1
Olswanger, Gene 1
Potts Campbell, Leila 1
Potts family 1
Potts, John F., Sr., 1908-1998 1
Price, Irving, 1910-1979 1
Richard, Carole M., 1948- 1
Richardson, Irene, 1913-2015 1
Riley, Joseph P., 1943- 1
Robinson, Bernice, 1914-1994 1
Sasportas family 1
Simmons, Philip, 1912-2009 1
South Carolina Legislative Black Caucus 1
Spelman College 1
St. John's Lutheran Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Stewart, Hazel Murray 1
Ullman, Anna Cohen Price, 1914- 1
United States. Marine Corps 1
Waring, Thomas R. 1
Whipper, Benjamin James, 1912-1998 1
Whipper, Jackson Seth, 1949- 1
Whipper, Lucille, 1928-2021 1
Wilkinson family 1
Williams Dockery, Patricia 1
Woods, Delbert L., 1913-1991 1