Edmund Lee Drago papers, ca. 1975-ca. 2005.

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Edmund Lee Drago papers, ca. 1975-ca. 2005.

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The Edmund Lee Drago Papers are organized in three series. The first series consists of materials related to Drago's Initiative, Paternalism, and Race Relations, documenting the Avery Normal Institute. This includes research done in collections round the country such as the Avery Research Center, the National Archives, Amistad Research Center, Highlander Research Center, American Missionary Association Archives and Mooreland-Spingarn Research Center. The files are mostly arranged by topic and consist of photocopies and abstracts from primary sources that include correspondence of the American Missionary Association and Avery Normal Institute staff; newspaper clippings, oral histories transcripts (including those of Septima Clark, Bernice Robinson, William A. Saunders, Eugene Hunt, Jr., and Arthur Clement), photographs, organizational minutes and reports, and financial documents. The series also contains photocopies and originals of secondary sources used and consulted in researching and writing the history, including books, articles, and theses, with data on a number of individuals including Septima Clark, J. Waties Waring, John A. McFall, John Wrighten and others. Correspondence between author and publishers, information on royalties, reviews, news clippings and other materials, such as photographs, re the completed manuscript are also included. Other than Avery itself, subjects include the American Missionary Association, the NAACP, the Charleston Interracial Committee (1942-1953), the Civil Rights movement, race relations in Charleston, with clippings re the 1968 Hospital Worker's Strike; the Highlander School, the Friendly Moralist Society, the Friendly Union Society, the Humane Brother Society, the Brown Fellowship Society and various Charleston African American social and fraternal organizations like the Humane Brotherhood Association, and the Phillis Wheatley Literary and Social Club. The second series relates to his work as a founding member of the Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture, working as a board member to establish a Research Center, obtaining collections, etc. and being involved in various historical projects relating to local black history and Avery. This includes correspondence, news clippings, invitations, brochures, board meeting minutes, grant applications, speeches, financial reports, and other printed material by or about Avery Normal Institute or Avery Research Center. Also included is research relating to various Avery initiatives such as exhibits, publications, donated materials and programs. The third series deals with Drago's other scholarly works including research material and drafts of "Saving Avery," the added chapter to the revised Initiative, Paternalism, and Race Relations. Also included are various printed materials regarding the failed attempt to publish an edited transcription of the proceedings of the Friendly Moralist Society, a free person of color benevolent organization in Charleston, SC; and Drago's edited volume Broke By the War. This includes primary and secondary research on Ziba. B. Oakes and A.J. McElveen, correspondence with publishers, annotated drafts, newspaper articles, books, images, and indexes.

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Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

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Clark, Septima Poinsette, 1898-1987

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Septima Poinsette Clark was born in Charleston, S.C. on 3 May 1898, the daughter of Peter Poinsette, who grew up a slave on the plantation of Joel Roberts Poinsett (with conflicting data saying he came on the ship the Wanderer), and Victoria Anderson who grew up mostly in Haiti. The family lived on Henrietta Street; Clark attended small private schools and Avery Institute, getting a teacher's certificate in 1916. Laws did not allow blacks to teach in black city schools, so Clark ta...

Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

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Established in 1985, the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture seeks to document, preserve, and make public the historical and cultural heritage of South Carolina Lowcountry African Americans. ...

McFall, John A., 1950-

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Robinson, Bernice, 1914-1994

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Bernice Violanthe Robinson was born in 1914 in Charleston, S.C. to James C. and Martha Elizabeth Robinson. Her father was a bricklayer and her mother a homemaker and seamstress. Robinson attended Simonton Elementary and Burke Industrial High School, graduating in 1931. She then relocated to Harlem, New York, where she worked in the garment district during the day and attended evening classes at the Poro School of Cosmetology. Upon Robinson's 1947 return to South Carolina, she opened a beauty sho...

Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.)

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Recordings (1954-1960) of folk music and of workshops on leadership, integration and voter registration conducted by the school, including a 1956 integration workshop with comments by Rosa Parks on Martin Luther King and the Montgomery bus boycott. Included are performances by Folk School students, Zilphia Horton, Pete Seeger, Guy Carawan, Jack Elliott, Frank Hamilton, and May Justus. Also, a radio interview (ca. 1960) with Septima Clark and school founder Myles Horton. From the desc...

McElveen, A. J., d. 1874.

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Charleston Inter-racial Commission

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Saunders, William, 1935-

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Drago, Edmund L

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Scholar, author and College of Charleston history professor Edmund Lee Drago was born in Chicago, Illinois. He received his BA from the University of Santa Clara in 1964 and his MA in History from the University of California, Berkeley in 1966. He served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War from 1969-1972 and completed his Ph. D. in History at the University of California at Berkeley in 1975. He began his teaching career at the College of Charleston in 1975. Drago is the author of Initiative,...

American Missionary Association

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Known chiefly for its educational work among African Americans, the American Missionary Association also worked with other ethnic groups. From the description of American Missionary Association records, 1820's-1870's (Detroit Public Library). WorldCat record id: 668992371 ...

Friendly Union Society.

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Hunt, Eugene C.

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Brown Fellowship Society.

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Phillis Wheatley Literary and Social Club (Charleston, S.C.)

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Waring, Julius Waties, 1880-1968

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Judge. From the description of Reminiscences of Julius Waties Waring : oral history, 1957. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309728157 Federal judge, lawyer, and civil rights advocate; of Charleston, S.C. From the description of Letter, 1921 May 24, Charleston, S.C., to Julian Mitchell, Charleston, S.C. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 54862038 From the description of Letter, 1935 Apr. 27, Charleston, S...

Avery Normal Institute

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The Avery Normal Institute was established by the American Missionary Association (AMA) in Charleston, South Carolina in 1865. It originally served as a school for former slaves and free persons of color, providing normal, or teacher, training to students pursuing careers in education. Avery's educational mission evolved as its all-black administrators, faculty, and students played pivotal roles in combating racism and Jim Crow laws in Charleston. The school eventually became known just as Avery...

Friendly Moralist Society (Charleston, S.C.)

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Wrighten, John, 1922-1996.

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Oakes, Ziba B., 1806-1871

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Clement, A. J. (Arthur J.)

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African-American business leader, of Charleston, S.C.; b. Arthur John Howard Clement, Jr. (1908-1986) served as district representative for N.C. Mutual Life, Charleston, 1930-1937, 1942-1955, Savannah, Ga., 1937-1942, Newark, N.J., 1955-1961, Los Angeles, Ca., 1961-1963, Philadelphia, Pa., 1963-1967; he was the son of Arthur John Howard Clement, Sr., and Sadie K. Jones Clement. Other activities include candidate for Charleston County Council, 1948; candidate for U.S. Hou...

Humane Brotherhood Association.

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