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 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

Archives: Holding listings and Annotated bibliographies, undated

 File — Box 147, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Contains administrative documents with correspondence, reports, and event programs, and the "Avery Messenger" newsletters. Also includes documents pertaining to the Avery Advisory Board.

Dates: undated

Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture papers

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1104
Abstract The Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture was founded in 1978 by a group of Avery alumnae and other interested persons in the Charleston, South Carolina, area. Its mission was to rescue the Avery Normal School buildings and to develop an archive and museum for preserving African American history and culture of the South Carlina Lowcountry. Working with the College of Charleston, the property on Bull Street was acquired and, in 1985, the Avery Research Center for African...
Dates: 1978-2000

Bennett, Susan Smythe, 1878-1965

 Person
Dates: Existence: 1878-03-20 - 1965-03-21

Brochures on African American Archival Centers, 1985, 1989, and undated

 File — Box 146, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Contains documents collected in prepartation for the establishment of the Avery Research Center; a archive, small museum, and cultural center for public programming.

Dates: 1985, 1989, and undated

Margaretta P. Childs African American church records project

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1013
Abstract Margaretta Pringle Childs (1912-2000) worked as an archivist at the College of Charleston, was head archivist for the City of Charleston, and a field archivist for the South Carolina Historical Society. In addition to her archival work, Childs was a member of the Charleston Interracial Committee and a Civil Rights activist. The materials in this collection form the working files of Margretta P. Childs's attempted project to collect and house the records of Charleston's Black churches at the...
Dates: 1849-1985

Dr. W. Marvin Dulaney papers

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1179
Abstract

The papers of Dr. W. Marvin Dulaney, educator, historian, former Director and Executive Director of the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture, and Chair of the College of Charleston History Department.

Dates: 1956-2017

Moorland-Spingarn Research Center: Archival Reading Room forms, undated

 File — Box 146, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Contains documents collected in prepartation for the establishment of the Avery Research Center; a archive, small museum, and cultural center for public programming.

Dates: undated