Black History Month is celebrated every February to honor the achievements of African Americans who have shaped American history. Historian Carter G. Woodson hoped to raise awareness of African American's contributions to civilization by establishing Negro History Week. The event was first celebrated during a week in February 1926 that included both Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass' birthdays. The week was later expanded to a month in 1976 during the United States bicentennial.
PHOTO: On March 20, 1969, Black hospital workers at the Medical College of South Carolina in Charleston went on strike to protest the firing of twelve employees and to call for higher wages and union recognition.
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Family Across the Sea, Part 2 A young black scholar named Lorenzo Turner began to research Gullah culture and language. Folklorists and historians who had studied this culture before Turner and...
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Family Across the Sea, Part 1 This award-winning program explores the remarkable connections between the Gullah of the South Carolina/Georgia Sea Islands and the people of West Africa, particularly...
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Part 2 of Project Discovery's look at the Orangeburg Massacre on its 40th anniversary.
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Part 3 of Project Discovery's look at the Orangeburg Massacre on its 40th anniversary.
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Part 1 of Project Discovery's look at the Orangeburg Massacre on its 40th anniversary. In 1968, civil rights demonstrations, to desegregate a bowling alley near S.C. State University, resulted in the...
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Part 4 of the Commemoration of the Orangeburg Massacre on its 40th anniversary: An interview with Martin Luther King, III, who was asked what his father would think about the events that occurred 40...
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The Road Trip Coastal team learns about the historical significance of Atlantic Beach.
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The Road Trip Coastal team speak to Senator Robert Ford about his experiences in the civil rights movement in South Carolina and calls for young people to continue to take action.
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On the final stop, the Road Trip Upstate crew learn about integration in South Carolina schools through real life memories and stories.
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The Road Trip Coastal crew visits the historic Penn Center in Beaufort, South Carolina.
