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Avery photograph collection

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1112
Dates: approximately 1890s-2012

"Charleston Hospital Workers' Strike" rough draft (photocopy)

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Identifier: Mss 0034-102
Collection Overview The paper is a typed rough draft with hand written corrections. It describes the Hospital workers' strike at the Medical College of South Carolina in 1969. The author is not identified, but a handwritten note reveals that the document was written in 1982. The paper discusses the role played by Mary Moultrie, the leader of the strike, and William McCord, the college president, in the strike. The strike was a protest by African-American, predominantly female, hospital workers for better...
Dates: 1982

Septima P. Clark papers

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Identifier: AMN 1000
Abstract Septima Poinsette Clark (1898-1987) was born in Charleston, South Carolina to Peter Porcher Poinsette and Victoria Anderson. Clark attended small private schools and Avery Institute, getting a teacher's certificate in 1916. She married Nerie Clark (1889-1925) of North Carolina, a navy cook in 1920; they had one surviving child Nerie Clark, Jr. (born 1925). Clark received her BA from Benedict College in 1942 and an MA from Hampton Institute in 1946. She taught in various schools throughout...
Dates: approximately 1910-1990

Esau Jenkins papers, 1963-2003

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Identifier: AMN 1004
Abstract Esau Jenkins (1910-1972) was born and raised on Johns Island, South Carolina. With very little formal education, he became a businessman and civil rights leader.The collection contains biographical papers, correspondence, writings, and information about his affliations, including the Progressive Club, Citizen's Committee of Charleston, Community Organization Credit Union, Political Action Committee of Charleston County, Political Awareness League of Charleston County, and the...
Dates: 1963-2003

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Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture 3
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African American women -- South Carolina -- Societies and clubs 2
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African American businesspeople -- South Carolina 1
African American churches -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
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African American women teachers 1
African Americans -- Civil rights 1
African Americans -- Civil rights -- South Carolina 1
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African Americans -- South Carolina -- Johns Island (Island) -- Social conditions 1
African Americans -- Suffrage -- South Carolina 1
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Charleston (S.C.) -- Race relations 1
Civil rights workers -- United States 1
Daufuskie Island (S.C.) -- Social conditions 1
Education -- South Carolina -- Johns Island (Island) 1
Fraternal organizations -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Fraternal organizations -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Photographs 1
Hospital Workers' Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1969 -- Photographs 1
Hospitals -- Employees -- Labor unions -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Johns Island (S.C. : Island) -- Economic conditions 1
Legal assistance to the poor -- South Carolina 1
Literacy -- South Carolina -- History 1
Literacy tests (Election law) -- South Carolina 1
Police-community relations -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Race discrimination -- South Carolina -- History 1
School buildings -- South Carolina -- Photographs 1
Sea Islands -- Photographs 1
South Carolina -- History -- 1865- 1
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Citizens' Committee of Charleston (Charleston, S.C.) 2
Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.) 2
Jenkins, Esau, 1910-1972 2
Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990 1
Allen University 1