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Between the Waters
Between the Waters

Between the Waters explores the culture and history of Hobcaw Barony, a 16,000 acre historic site on the coast of South Carolina.

Forgotten Founder
Forgotten Founder
Pulitzer Prize Winners in SC
Pulitzer Prize Winners in SC
La Ropa Sucia
La Ropa Sucia

La Ropa Sucia is a fotonovela produced by ETV and designed to target both Hispanic and non-Hispanic teenagers; the title, which means “Dirty Laundry,” is based on the Hispanic adage, “La ropa sucia se lava en casa.”...

Sisterhood: SC Suffragists
Sisterhood: SC Suffragists

Celebrate the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th amendment

Grimké Sisters Through the Civil War
Grimké Sisters Through the Civil War

Although best known as fierce abolitionists, Sarah and Angelina Grimké were the first South Carolina Women to publicly advocate for women's suffrage.

Sisterhood: SC Suffragists - Moving Forward
Sisterhood: SC Suffragists - Moving Forward

The roles South Carolinians played in the Women’s Suffrage Movement have often gone unheralded.

Rollin Sisters--Reconstruction Through 1895
Rollin Sisters--Reconstruction Through 1895

During Reconstruction, despite their inability to vote or hold political office, the Rollin Sisters, were among the most influential people in South Carolina politics.

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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...
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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...
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During this period, there were many people, including African Americans, who felt the issue of women’s suffrage was much less important than civil rights for Blacks. In the 1868 Constitutional...
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The Civil War brought an abrupt change to the Rollin Family, ending a period where, according to Frances Rollin, “free people of color were at the zenith of their prosperity”. The Rollin family’s...
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Frances Rollin was propelled into the national spotlight with the Pilot Boy steamship incident, in Charleston, South Carolina, where the captain refused her service due to the color of her skin...