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Grades: 6 7 8
"S" is for Sayre, Christopher Gadsden. [1876-1935] Architect.
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Historian Walter Edgar mines the riches of the South Carolina Encyclopedia to bring you South Carolina from A to Z.
Sayre, Christopher Gadsden | South Carolina Public Radio
Scarborough, William Harrison | South Carolina Public Radio
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Grades: 6 7 8
"S" is for Scarborough, William Harrison [1912-1871]. Painter. Portraitist.
Scofield Normal and Industrial School | South Carolina Public Radio
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Grades: 6 7 8
"S" is for Scofield Normal and Industrial School [1871-1953].
Scott, Robert Kingston | South Carolina Public Radio
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"S" is for Scott, Robert Kingston [1826-1900] Governor.
Sea Pines Company | South Carolina Public Radio
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Grades: 6 7 8
"S" is for Sea Pines Company [1957-present]
Secession Crisis of 1850-51 | South Carolina Public Radio
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Grades: 4 8 11
"S" is for Secession Crisis of 1850-51.
Secessionville, Battle of | South Carolina Public Radio
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Grades: 6 7 8
“S” is for Secessionville, Battle of [June 16, 1862). Union general Henry Benham launched an assault on Tower Battery near the planter village of Secessionville. The Confederate defenders, supported...
Segregation | South Carolina Public Radio
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Grades: 6 7 8
“S” is for Segregation. Segregation, the residential, political, and social isolation of African Americans, by law and custom was accomplished in South Carolina in the last quarter of the 19th century...
Seigler, Marie Samuella Cromer | South Carolina Public Radio
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Grades: 6 7 8
“S” is for Seigler, Marie Samuella Cromer [1882-1964]. Educator. Girl’s club founder. In 1909, Seigler, an Abbeville County native, heard a representative of the U.S. Department of Agriculture extoll...
Self, James Cuthbert | South Carolina Public Radio
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Grades: 6 7 8
“S” is for Self, James Cuthbert [1876-1955]. Textile manufacturer, philanthropist. A native of Bowles Mountain in Edgefield County [now Greenwood County], Self attended a business college in Virginia...
Sellers, Cleveland Louis, Jr. | South Carolina Public Radio
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Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education
“S” is for Sellers, Cleveland Louis, Jr. [b. 1944]. Civil rights activist. Educator. Sellers attended Howard University where he met several student activists, including Stokely Carmichael—later...
Selvy, Franklin Delano | South Carolina Public Radio
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Grades: 6 7 8
“S” is for Selvy, Franklin Delano [b. 1932]. Basketball player. Born in Kentucky, Selvy played his college ball at Furman. He is best known for his high-scoring performances that made national...
Seneca | South Carolina Public Radio
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Grades: 6 7 8
“S” is for Seneca [Oconee County; population 7,652]. Founded in 1873, as Seneca City, the town took its name from an earlier Indian village and the nearby Seneca River. As was the case with several...
Sewees | South Carolina Public Radio
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Grades: 6 7 8
“S” is for Sewees. The Sewees were a Native American nation based along the Santee River and the Sea Islands. In 1670 it was the Sewees who showed the English colonists the best harbors. They helped...
Simkins, Modjeska Monteith | South Carolina Public Radio
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Grades: 6 7 8
“S” is for Simkins, Modjeska Monteith [1899-1992] Educator, civil rights organizer, community activist. Simkins’s inspiration to become an advocate for the black community came from her parents. After...
Slave Patrols | South Carolina Public Radio
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Grades: 6 7 8
"S" is for Slave Patrols. Slave patrols were a crucial mechanism of slave control in colonial and antebellum South Carolina. Like the state’s earliest slave codes, the earliest slave patrol systems...
St. David’s Church | South Carolina Public Radio
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Grades: 6 7 8
“S” is for St. David's Church in Cheraw. St. David's Parish was established in 1768 and construction on the parish church—known locally as “Old St. David's”—began in the 1770s. Although similar to...
St. John’s-Colleton Parish | South Carolina Public Radio
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Grades: 6 7 8
"S" is for St. John’s-Colleton Parish.