also dozens of artifact collections encompassing a range of materials relevant to slavery, material culture from West Africa, and even a sweetgrass basket collection. Processed manuscript collections and other catalogued items can be searched via the College of Charleston’s Addlestone Library‘s online catalogue. The Avery Research Center’s website also features an online finding aid. Selected digitally archived materials are also available online through the Lowcountry Digital Library. Numerous digitized archival materials from Avery are also featured in online exhibitions with the Lowcountry Digital History Initiative. Public Programming and Educational Outreach Events and programs at the Avery Research Center range from public lectures, workshops, film screenings, performances, annual conferences, symposia, and exhibition openings, to private group events, meetings, and presentations. Avery Research Center staff may organize and sponsor these events, or they may be arranged by an outside organization at the College of Charleston or elsewhere. Events organized by the Avery Research Center staff typically focus on topics relevant to Avery Research Center’s mission of promoting education and dialogue about African-American history, culture, and contemporary issues in the Lowcountry and/or in the wider African diaspora. Event spaces in the Avery Research Center building include the McKinley Washington Auditorium, as well as various other exhibition galleries and classrooms. Avery Research Center staff members regularly update the Programs calendar with upcoming events. The Avery Research Center staff conducts education programs on and offsite that highlight individuals, social movements, and historical events relevant to the South Carolina Lowcountry African-American history and culture through primary and secondary sources from the Avery Research Center’s archives. References Charron, Katherine. Freedom's Teacher: The Life of Septima Clark. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: The University of North Carolina Press, 2012. Drago, Edmund L. Charleston's Avery Center: From Education and Civil Rights to Preserving the African American Experience. The History Press. Drago, Edmund L. "Initiative, Paternalism, and Race Relations: Charleston’s Avery Normal Institute." Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1990. Drago, Edmund L. and Eugene C. Hunt. "A History of Avery Normal Institute From 1865 to 1954" (Revised and Enlarged). Charleston, S.C.: Avery Research Center, 1991. Powers, Bernard, "Black Charlestonians: A Social History, 1822–1885." Fayetteville, Arkansas: The University of Arkansas Press, 1994. External links Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture http://avery.cofc.edu/ Avery Institute http://www.averyinstitute.us/ Lowcountry Digital Library: Avery Research Center Collections http://lcdl.library.cofc.edu/content/avery-research-center Research organizations in the United States Post–civil rights era in African-American history College of Charleston 1978