The research center hosts an extensive collection of archives surrounding Black Lowcountry culture.
The Avery Research Center, focused on Black life in South Carolina’s Lowcountry, has reached a new milestone.
Around 160 years ago, the Avery Normal Institute was founded to educate formerly enslaved Black people in the Lowcountry region, an coastal area in the southeastern United States. A groundbreaking triumph for the area, it helped Black people from the area learn new careers and livelihoods post-slavery…