Learn about women who have fought for equal justice under the law!
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Meet the Pollitzer sisters, who played a vital role in advancing women's rights and education in South Carolina during a transformative era.
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This Avery Research Center photo gallery features the following images: The Avery Center Avery Normal Institute Reverend Charles Avery Avery students in library African sculptures Book collections...
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The Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture is located on the site of the former Avery Normal Institute. It was a hub for Charleston’s African American community from 1865–1954...
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The Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture is located on the site of the former Avery Normal Institute. It was a hub for Charleston’s African American community from 1865–1954...
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Modjeska Monteith Simkins is known as the "matriarch of civil rights activists" in South Carolina. Born in Columbia in 1899, Simkins spent her adult life fighting for equality and advocating for human...
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This quiz will test your knowledge on the history of Women’s Suffrage in the U.S.! How much do you know about the history behind women gaining the right to vote in the U.S.? Find out via the quiz...
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This quiz will test your knowledge on the history of Women’s Suffrage in the U.S.! How much do you know about the history behind women gaining the right to vote in the U.S.? Find out via the quiz...
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This "Carolina Stories" documentary features the biographies of four "leading ladies" in South Carolina history, who have been honored by induction into the South Carolina Hall of Fame...Mary McLeod...
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Playing an important role in the civil rights movement, Septima Poinsette Clark understood the role that education could play in a community.
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Susan Pringle Frost, a mentor to the Pollitzer sisters, was the founder of the Charleston Equal Suffrage League. Anita Pollitzer went to work for that National American Women Suffrage Association...