Charleston's Avery Center : from education and civil rights to preserving the African American experience /

Drago, Edmund L,

Charleston's Avery Center : from education and civil rights to preserving the African American experience / [print] Edmund L. Drago ; revised and edited by W. Marvin Dulaney. - History Press edition. - Charleston, South Carolina : History Press, (c)2006. - 416 pages, 16. pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Rev. edition of: Initiative, paternalism and race relations. Athens : University of Georgia Press, c1990.



Antebellum context -- Reconstruction, 1865-1877 -- The Gilded Age, 1878-1915 -- The Cox era, 1914-1936 -- The struggle to survive, 1936-1947 -- Avery as a public school, 1947-1954 -- Averyites and the civil rights movement in the lowcountry, 1954-1969 -- Saving Avery: a dream realized.



9781596290686

2006001329


Avery Normal Institute--History.


African Americans--Education (Secondary)--History.--South Carolina--Charleston
Paternalism--History.--South Carolina--Charleston

LC2852.A954.C437 2006