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Submit your Story: Black Love @ the Avery Research Center
At the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture, we document all aspects of our community. One area...
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Making Accessible Avery Research Center’s Institutional History
This post is written by Lauren Bickel and Veer Mehta, the Avery Research Center’s Liberatory Literacies Assistant Project Director and...
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Thank you for a wonderful year! Winter Break Closure December 21, 2023-January 1, 2024
We’re wrapping up a full year here at the Avery. Our building will be closed Dec 21st — Jan 1st....
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Emergency Closure: Closed on December 18th
Due to flooding in Harleston Village, the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture will be closed on...
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November Hours Change
The Avery Research Center will be closing early on November 22 and closed on Nov. 23-24th.
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Issue 1: Black Research News (BRN)
Newsletter by Aaisha Haykal
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Desegregation of the College of Charleston exhibit is now live on LDHI!
Text provided by Leah Worthington, College of Charleston Digital Projects Librarian I am pleased and excited to announce that our...
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Transforming Hampstead Village by Mateo Mérida
As Charleston has become one of the fastest growing cities in the US, few areas have seen as much change...
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Public Memory of the Domestic Slave Trade in Charleston, South Carolina Street by Lauren Davila
South Carolina’s oldest business district stands in downtown Charleston on Broad Street, just steps from the Atlantic Ocean. It intersects...
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Activist Education in Denver, CO by Mateo Mérida
In the 1960s, the United States saw some of the largest activist movements in the history of this country, with...
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Longshoreman Strike 1866 by Mateo Mérida
South Carolina has earned a reputation as one of the most conservative states in the United States, socially, politically, and...
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Avery Research Center is hiring for the Mellon Grant!
To support the Avery and Liberatory Literacies: Commemorating 160 Years of Black Education grant project, we are hiring three positions this...
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A Critical Conversations event with Tamara Lanier on Repatriating Artifacts of North American Slavery
Date: Tuesday, March 21 5:30-7:00 PM EST Location: Septima Clark Memorial Auditorium (ECTR 118) Description: The Center for the Study...
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March 2023 Open House Cancelled.
The March open house is been cancelled. Sorry any inconvenience, please visit our virtual exhibition.
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NAI Course: “Speaking Our Truths: A Gathering of Black and Brown Interpreters”
The Avery Research Center for African American History & Culture is sponsoring a training course with the National Association for...
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Meet our Undergraduate and Graduate Student Assistants
The Avery Research Center supports the professional efforts of College of Charleston students by providing experiential learning opportunities across all...
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Part 3: Lowcountry Resistance by Mateo Mérida
White supremacy has not only been pervasive in the history of Charleston, but it is present in every structure that...
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Lowcountry Resistance Part 2 by Mateo Mérida
As we saw in Kelly’s Rebellion of 1849, the first thought of resistance for some is that which is violent....
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