African American schools -- South Carolina -- Charleston
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Charleston County Black School Directory Collection
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1181
Abstract
Originally titled, "The Directory of Charleston County Black Schools," this project was organized by staff and volunteers at the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture, circa 1991. The goal was to identify and research Charleston School District public elementary and high schools which taught Black students. The project also included the identification of kindergartens, private residential and parochial schools.
Dates:
1930-1991, and undated; Majority of material found in 1989-1991, and undated
John L. Dart family papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1069
Abstract
John Lewis Dart (1854-1915) was born a free person of color in Charleston, South Carolina. He graduated from Avery Normal Institute in 1872 and attended Atlanta University in Georgia, and Newton Theological Seminary in Massachusetts, where he was ordained a Baptist minister. He returned to Charleston in 1886 and became pastor of Morris Street Baptist Church. Sixteen years later, Dart ministered the Shiloh Baptist Church. In 1894, he opened the Charleston Normal and Industrial Institute, a...
Dates:
1844-1947
Isabelle Smalls Griffin papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN-1171
Abstract
This collection contains transcripts of speeches, programs and other memorabilia from Avery Normal Institute and Baptist Hill High School.
Dates:
1947-1984
Inez Richardson papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1161
Abstract
Inez A. Richardson, born in 1911, was the first licensed Black female barber in South Carolina. This collection concentrates primarily on Inez Richardson, however it also includes documents pertaining to the rest of the Richardson family. The collection documents Richardson’s involvement in the Rose of Sharon Tent, Southern District No. 4, from 1952 to 1984. The Rose of Sharon Tent was one of the Tents of the United Order of Tents, which is the only Christian Black women’s secret society....
Dates:
1951-1990