Research files on four African American cemeteries, 1999-2001.

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Research files on four African American cemeteries, 1999-2001.

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Records of the research required to determine whether or not a new library planned for the College of Charleston would cover any portion of the burial grounds of four African-American cemeteries: the Brown Fellowship Society (founded 1790 and renamed the Century Fellowship Society in 1903), the Free Dark Men of Color, Plymouth Congregational Church, and the MacPhelah Cemetery. The site had formerly been utilized by Bishop England High School, which was built in 1921 and which expanded in 1949, 1957, and 1965. Archaeological work was commissioned in order to ascertain that the Nathan and Marlene Addlestone Library would not disturb any remaining graves. The files include information about the organizations which created the cemeteries; copies of deeds; correspondence between Dr. Dulaney, President Alex Sanders, Dr. Edmund L. Drago, Dr. Bernard E. Powers, Dr. David Cohen, and others; newspaper articles by Alphonso Brown and others about the organizations and cemeteries, maps of the site (within the block bounded by Calhoun, Bull, Coming, and Pitt streets), and plans for a memorial to mark the site.

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College of Charleston, Marlene and Nathan Addlestone Library

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College of Charleston, Marlene and Nathan Addlestone Library

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Dulaney, W. Marvin, 1950-

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Dr. W. Marvin Dulaney is a professor of history at the College of Charleston and the Executive Director of the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture. From the description of Research files on four African American cemeteries, 1999-2001. (College of Charleston). WorldCat record id: 53363105 ...

Brown Fellowship Society Cemetery (Charleston, S.C.)

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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,...

Bishop England High School (Charleston, S.C.)

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Plymouth Congregational Church Cemetery (Charleston, S.C.)

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Brown, Alphonso, 1968-

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Powers, Bernard Edward

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Free Dark Men of Color Cemetery (Charleston, S.C.)

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Century Fellowship Society Cemetery (Charleston, S.C.)

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Sanders, Alex

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College of Charleston. Nathan and Marlene Addleston Library.

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MacPhelah Cemetery (Charleston, S.C.)

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Cohen, David Joseph

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