Guide to African American reference
Guide to Afro-Caribbean reference
May 30, 2008
Georgette Mayo will take over from Marvin Dulaney as executive director of the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture at the College of Charleston on July 1st. Mayo, who has been an archivist at the center for more than two years, has earned a bachelor of arts, a master of arts and a master of library and information science degree from the University of South Carolina. When she takes over in July, she plans to continue to support the archival program, a significant research collection for scholars at Avery.
The Avery Research Center, part museum and part archive, was once a school for freed slaves. Its collections include primary and secondary source material of nearly 4,000 holdings that encourage scholarship, research, and presentations by scholars, researchers, and students. The Avery Research Center was established in 1985, and its mission "tells the story of black Americans from their origins in Africa through slavery, emancipation, segregation, migration, the civil rights movement, and the ongoing struggle for social and political equality." The Center's museum is a national historic site with a listing on the National Register of Historic Sites. The Center also operates a cultural center.
Avery Center website: < http://www.cofc.edu/avery/index.htm>
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Last modified by: Thomas Weissinger on 5/30/08