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Mary Miller collection

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1169
Scope and Contents

This collection was created and donated by Mary S. Miller and features records which she collected during her tenure on the Avery Institute for African American History and Culture administrative board. Although she held leadership roles on the AIAAHC board, much of this collection pertains to Miller's personal historical interests regarding Charleston and the Lowcountry.

Dates: 1879-2011; Majority of material found within 2000 - 2011

Lucille Simmons Whipper papers

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1146
Abstract Lucille Simmons Whipper (1928-2021), an educator, guidance counselor, academic administrator, community, and religious leader and the first African-American woman to serve as an State of South Carolina House of Representatives in Charleston's District 109 (1986-1996). She exercised her activism with her graduating class at Avery Institute in their attempts to desegregate the College of Charleston in 1944. Decades later, Whipper was instrumental in working with the State of South Carolina and...
Dates: 1900-2016, undated

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African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- Charleston 3
African American educators -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Photographs 2
African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century 2
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
Associations, institutions, etc. -- South Carolina 2
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Boards of directors 2
annual reports 2
Adolescence 1
Affirmative Action programs 1
African American History Month 1
African American children -- Education -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American churches 1
African American educators -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American high school students -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American men 1
African American newspapers 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 teenagers -- Education -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American universities and colleges 1
African American women -- South Carolina -- Societies and clubs -- History 1
African American youth 1
African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina 1
African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- History 1
African Americans -- Museums 1
African Americans -- Periodicals 1
African Americans -- Politics and government -- 20th century 1
African Americans -- Social conditions 1
African Americans -- Social conditions -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century 1
African Americans -- Societies, etc. -- History 1
African Americans -- Societies, etc. -- Photographs 1
African Americans -- South Carolina 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Religion 1
Archives 1
Associations, institutions, etc. -- African American membership 1
Avery Tiger 1
Charleston (S.C.) -- History 1
Charleston (S.C.) -- Race relations 1
Charleston County (S.C.) 1
Charleston County (S.C.) -- Newspapers 1
Child care 1
Children 1
Church buildings 1
Church music 1
Civil rights workers -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 20th century 1
Education -- 19th century 1
Education, Secondary -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Educators -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
High schools -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Hospital Workers' Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1969 1
Oral histories 1
Photographs 1
Porters -- Labor unions -- United States -- History 1
Private schools -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Public schools -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century 1
Pullman porters -- Photographs 1
Pullman porters -- United States -- History 1
Segregation in education -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
articles 1
audiotapes 1
awards 1
booklets 1
brochures 1
bylaws (administrative records) 1
certificates 1
clippings files 1
color negatives 1
color photographs 1
correspondence 1
doctoral dissertations 1
essays 1
financial records 1
fliers (printed matter) 1
interviews 1
manuscripts (documents) 1
manuscripts for publication 1
masters theses 1
newspapers 1
personnel records 1
photocopies 1
programs (documents) 1
reports 1
school yearbooks 1
typescripts 1
wills 1
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Names
Avery Normal Institute 8
Avery Research Center 7
American Missionary Association 2
Amistad Research Center 2
Charleston County School District 2
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College of Charleston 2
Addiction Research Center (U.S.) 1
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. Gamma Xi Omega Chapter (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Anderson, Leroy Frederick, Dr., 1916-1989 1
Anderson, Melicent Olphin, 1927-2004 1
Anderson, Steward Eugene, Jr., 1911-1997 1
Anderson, Vivienne Edwards, 1913-2005 1
Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture. Board of Directors 1
Baptist Ministers' Wives and Ministers' Widows of Charleston County (S.C.) 1
Benedict College 1
Berkeley-Charleston-Dorchester Council of Governments 1
Bonds-Wilson High School (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters 1
Brownlee, Frederick Leslie, 1883-1962 1
Burke High School (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Chambers, Annette Graves, 1983- 1
Charleston (S.C.). Commissioners of Public Works 1
Charleston County Legislative Delegation 1
Chisholm, Shirley, 1924-2005 1
College of Charleston. Governor's School 1
College of Charleston. Upward Bound Program 1
Coming Street YWCA (Charleston, S.C.) 1
DeAngelis, Gerald G. 1
DeCosta, Frank A. 1
Deweese family 1
Drago, Edmund L. 1
Edwards, Jacob Francis, Jr., 1909-1941 1
Edwards, Jacob Francis, Sr., 1877-1963 1
Edwards, John Arthur, 1911-1987 1
Edwards, Johnette Mencile Green, 1926-1977 1
Edwards, Richard Leon, 1903-2000 1
Edwards, Susanna Norena Simmons, 1880-1956 1
Franklin C. Fetter Family Health Center 1
Friendly Moralist Society (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Graves family 1
Graves, Eugene 1
Graves, J. Michael (James Michael), 1915-1996 1
Graves, James R. B., 1883-1969 1
Graves, Pauline 1
Graves, Robert Blackburne 1
Graves, Rose L., 1890-1978 1
Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.) 1
Hoursey, Alphonso H., 1900-1977 1
Hunt, Eugene C. 1
Johnson, Jerome J. 1
Kelly family 1
Kelly, Anna D., 1913-2007 1
Medical University of South Carolina 1
Miller, Mary S. 1
Mitchell, Lonnie E. 1
Morton, Ruth, 1900-1989 1
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Charleston Branch (Charleston, S.C.) 1
National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.) 1
National Teacher Corps (U.S.) 1
North Central Neighborhood Council (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) 1
Oakes, Ziba B., 1806-1871 1
Potts, John F. 1
Pullman Company 1
Sea Island Comprehensive Health Care Corporation 1
South Carolina Conference of Black Mayors 1
Talladega College 1
United States. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare 1
United States. Office of Education 1
Washington, Samuel Walter, 1901-1978 1
Whipper, Benjamin James, 1912-1998 1
Whipper, Lucille, 1928-2021 1
Wilson, Etta Winds, 1907-1995 1
Wilson, John T., 1910-1994 1
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