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Avery photograph collection

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1112
Dates: approximately 1890s-2012
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

Brown Fellowship Society records

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Identifier: AMN 1005
Abstract The Brown Fellowship Society was a benevolent society of free African-American and racially mixed men, affiliated with St. Philip's Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.The collection consists of organizational materials of the Brown Fellowship Society, including a corrected copy of Charles H. Holloway's Rules and Regulations of the Brown Fellowship Society as founded in 1794, but not published until 1844. Minute books detail the...
Dates: 1794-1990
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

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
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

Henry Grant papers

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Identifier: AMN 1011
Abstract Henry Lacy Grant (1925-1990) was born in North Augusta, Georgia to Henry L. Grant and Lillie Lacy Grant. An ordained Episcopal priest, Father Grant served the East Side community of Charleston, South Carolina for over twenty years as director of St. John's Mission Center and priest of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church. Father Grant is buried at Live Oak Memorial Gardens in Charleston, South Carolina. The collection consists of correspondence, newspaper clippings, compilations, and miscellaneous...
Dates: 1964-1990
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

Holloway family scrapbook

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Identifier: AMN 1065
Abstract James Harrison Holloway, compiler of the family scrapbook, collected materials in the early twentieth century to preserve a record of his family’s legacy as free prominent African Americans in Charleston, South Carolina, from their arrival in the late eighteenth century. In the wake of Reconstruction and the dawn of Jim Crow, Holloway, whose vocations ranged between preacher, postmaster, and harness maker, sought to assert his family's legacy against the economic, social, and political...
Dates: 1776-1977, undated
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

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Avery Normal Institute 2
Allison, C. FitzSimons (Christopher FitzSimons), 1927- 1
Anderson, Leroy Frederick, Dr., 1916-1989 1
Avery Research Center 1
Baskervill Ministries (Pawleys Island, S.C.) 1
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Brown Fellowship Society (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Carolina Youth Development Center 1
Century Fellowship Society (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Charleston County Economic Opportunities Commission 1
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Clyburn, James 1
Conroy, John F. 1
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 1
Faith Memorial Mission (Georgetown, S.C.) 1
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Grant, Henry Lacy, 1925-1990 1
Haines Normal and Industrial Institute 1
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Holloway, James H. (James Harrison), 1849-1913 1
March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation. Charleston Chapter. 1
Methodist Episcopal Church 1
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Old Storm Branch Baptist Church (Clearwater, S.C.) 1
Purcell, Mae Holloway, 1891-1982 1
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Sea Island Health Care Corporation 1
St. John's Episcopal Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
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Voorhees College 1
West, John C. (John Clifford), 1922- 1
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