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AVERY MESSENGER is the newsletter
of the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture at the College of Charleston
and its parent organization, the Avery Institute of Afro-American
History and Culture.
Publication Committee
Leila Potts-Campbell, Editor
Steve Hoffius, Copy Editor
Anja U. Kelley, Designer
Cynthia McCottry-Smith
Deborah A. Wright
We welcome your FEEDBACK
AveryResearchCenter@cofc.edu
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Newsletter Information
The Avery MESSENGER launched its inaugural issue in the Fall of 2003. Building on an historic partnership between the Avery Research Center and the Avery Institute, the two entities in a unified effort, joined the Insitutes existing newsletter, The Bulletin with the Avery Research Center's newly concieved Avery MESSENGER.
Penned by Avery's Curator and Director of Museum Education, Curtis Franks, the title of our newsletter is in remembrance of the historic Charleston Messenger, a late 19th century African American newspaper. Founded in 1894 by Francis P. Crum, a member of one of Charleston's well known families, the paper was later bought by Reverend Daniel J. Jenkins in 1897. It existed as the Jenkins Orphanage's paper until 1946 when the publication ceased. |
Back issues will soon be available online.
Fall 2003
Summer 2004
Fall 2004
Winter / Spring 2004
Winter / Spring 2005
Summer 2005
Fall 2005
Winter / Spring 2006
Summer 2006 |
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Current Issue
Spring, 2009 - Vol. 7 No. 1
Feature: Black Elected Officials Before OBAMA: Black Pioneers in South Carolina Politics - Damon L. Fordham
"To Promote Brotherly Union": Charleston's Unique
Burial Societies - Leila Potts Campbell
An Evening With Nikki Giovanni - Erica N. Veal
"Mermaids and Merwomen in Black Folklore"
Georgette Mayo
Avery's First Volunteer: How It Began - Lois A. Simms
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FALL, 2008 - Vol. 6 No. 3
Feature: Grass Roots: New Exhibition Links
African & South Carolina Baskets
"All In One Basket" - Peter Wood, Ph.D.
"Georgette Mayo Named Interim Director"
"A Trip To Mother Africa" - Curtis Franks
A Gift of Art ... A Collaboration ... A Challenge"
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SUMMER 2008 - Vol. 6 No. 2
Feature: "Fourteen Years at Avery" Tribute to Avery's outgoing Executive Director Dr. W. Marvin Dulaney
"Grass Roots: African Origins of An American Art" -
Deborah Wright
South Carolina African American Heritage Commission
"Awards for Preservation of African American History and Culture"
"Organized Labor & Unions" Collection Highlights - Jessica Lancia
"The Jenkins-Avery Jazz Tradition"- Jack McCray |
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SPRING 2008 - Volume 6 - Number 1
Feature: “The Slave Trade”
Assignment: "Research Slavery and the Slave Trade"
Memories: "Slavery Through Avery Eyes" - Cynthia McCottry Smith
"The Old Slave Mart Museum" - Erica Veal
Avery Collection: "Musical Instruments From Africa" - Sue Jacoby
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WINTER 2007 - Volume 5 - Number 2
Feature: " Baskets & Sculpture, Shackles and Slave Badges:
The Care of Artifacts Among Avery's Collections"
by Deborah Wright & Sue Jacoby
"Lincolnville, South Carolina: Originally an All-Black Town, Now the Subject of a New History"
From "The History of Lincolnville, South Carolina" by
Christine Hampton, Rosalee Washington
Avery Announces Vivienne Anderson Endowment
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SPRING / SUMMER 2007 - Volume 5 - Number 1
Feature: " The Seeds of History: The Avery Research Center Archives and Its Legacy" - Otis Pickett
Overview of the book: "Born To Serve: A History of the Woman's Baptist Educational and Missionary Convention of South Carolina"
by W. Marvin Dulaney, Ph.D., Damon Fordham &
Muima A. Shinault-Small
Spoleto Festival Events at Avery |
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FALL / WINTER 2006 - Volume 4 - Number 3
Feature: "New Civil Rights Discoveries" - Harlan Greene
Esau Jenkins: "What Started The Whole Thing"
Fannie Lou Hamer: Arrested For Her Beliefs"
Civil Rights Biographies: Septima P. Clark; Esau Jenkins;
Bernice V. Robinson and Cleveland L. Sellers, Jr.
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