Women in Leadership

Septima Poinsette Clark | Carolina Snaps

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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.

Clubwomen, The Pollitzer Sisters & The Vote

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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...

Clubwomen, The Pollitzer Sisters & The Vote

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In the early twentieth century, a trio of sisters from Charleston, SC, known as the Pollitzer sisters (Carrie, Mabel, and Anita) embraced the opportunities for social reform. The Pollitzers came from...

Clubwomen, The Pollitzer Sisters & The Vote

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Support for women’s right to vote was growing in South Carolina. A custody battle and scandal between two legendary SC families gave the women’s suffrage movement a boost in SC. Lucy Pickens Dugas was...

Clubwomen, The Pollitzer Sisters & The Vote

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Beginning in 1899, the Poppenheim sisters published a monthly magazine called The Keystone . The magazine pointed out the manner in which the Confederate “Lost Cause” movement celebrated the...

Clubwomen, The Pollitzer Sisters & The Vote

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South Carolina, a mostly rural state in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, was racially divided and impoverished after Reconstruction. Its economy was mainly agrarian, growing crops...

Global and Local Research Inquiry Handout - Gilda Cobb-Hunter Video Part 1&2 | SC African American History Calendar (2021)

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Use the Part I Gilda Cobb-Hunter video to have students strengthen their research and inquiry skills. This handout is another great way to combine social studies and ELA.

Evelyn Wright | S.C. Hall of Fame

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Elizabeth Evelyn Wright was born April 3, 1872 in Talbotton, Georgia. While being educated, she learned about Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute and Booker T. Washington. In 1888, Wright...

The Rollin Sisters | Sisterhood: SC Suffragists

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The Rollin Sisters are essentially silenced after Reconstruction, and are forced to move away from South Carolina due to the increasing violence by “Red Shirts”, and Ku Klux Klan members. In the fight...

The Rollin Sisters | Sisterhood: SC Suffragists

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The South Carolina Woman Suffrage Association was founded in Columbia in 1870, with Charlotte Rollin as the Chair. A charter is created and sent to Lucy Stone, one of the founders of the American...