Charleston's Avery Center: From Education and Civil Rights to Preserving the African American Experience by Edmund L. Drago

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Established in 1865, the Avery Normal Institute educated Charleston's African American leaders and trained most of the area's black teachers. Avery flourished and emerged as a leading college preparatory institute, vital to Charleston's interracial environment. The list of important contributions by Avery's teachers and students includes the establishment of the Charleston chapter of the NAACP, a successful petition to secure positions for black teachers in the city's public schools, the show more fight for desegregation in the sixties, and the hospital strike of 1969 Charleston's last major civil rights confrontation. show less