awards
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Things conferred or bestowed as a reward for merit, including a prize, reward, honor, document, or remuneration.
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture records
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1103
Abstract
The collection contains the institutional records of the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture at the College of Charleston, established in 1985. The records are arranged chronologically by administration and then into sub-series consisting of administration and operations, archival holdings, and outreach and programs. Included are administrative and organizational records, records of archival holdings, and records reflecting the many programs and other outreach...
Dates:
1980-2019
Jean Laney Harris Folk Heritage Awards, 2000
File — Box 147, Folder: 25
Scope and Contents
Avery was the recipient of this annual award recognizing the advocacy of Folk Culture in South Carolina.
Dates:
2000
Found in:
Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture
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Lucille Simmons Whipper papers
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Series 5: Civic, Community, and Social Involvement
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5.6: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture
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5.6.2: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture, College of Charleston
Patricia Williams Lessane papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1175
Abstract
The papers of Patricia Williams Lessane, Executive Director of Avery Research Center for African American History & Culture from 2010-2019.
Dates:
1976-2019
Program: Third Annual Avery Citizenship Awards Gala, 1997
File — Box 147, Folder: 21
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence and invitations.
Dates:
1997
Found in:
Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture
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Lucille Simmons Whipper papers
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Series 5: Civic, Community, and Social Involvement
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5.6: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture
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5.6.2: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture, College of Charleston
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