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"L" is for Littlejohn, Nina [1879-1963] Hospital Administrator.
The Progressive Movement
1890-1920. The Progressive Movement was time of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States, that included women's suffrage.
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Clelia Peronneau McGowan (1865-1956) of Charleston was a pioneer woman suffragist in South Carolina. After the 19th Amendment was passed giving women the right to vote, she became the first woman...
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Richard I. Manning III (1859-1931) served as governor from 1915-1919. Born in 1859 at Homesley Plantation in Sumter County, Manning was educated at local schools and at the Kenmore Preparatory School...
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This program is based on an oral history conducted by the New Jersey Multi-Ethnic Oral History Project. The subject is a black woman who moved with her family from South Carolina to New Jersey in the...
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The advent of a new century made many leaders of the South begin to talk of a New South, where industry and diversity would end the poverty and backwardness that had characterized too much of the...
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The equal suffrage movement of women demanding the right to vote developed slowly in South Carolina. This parade in Aiken on January 26, 1917, claimed to be "The First Suffrage Parade in South...
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The official Dispensary liquor label. One of the most controversial political issues in a period when political controversy dominated state politics, was the State Dispensary, a plan under which all...
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Dr. Anne Austin Young fought the norm that women could not be at the top of their college class nor become a medical doctor. Anne was one of the first female doctors in South Carolina to practice...
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Susan Pringle Frost dedicated her life to making sure that Charleston’s historic architectural beauty would be preserved. Born in Charleston to wealthy parents in 1873, she lived in the Miles Brewton...
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Born in 1876, Anna Vaughn Hyatt came from a family that supported her interest in animals and the arts. Her mother and sister were both artists. Her father was a professor of paleontology, and she...