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Joseph McDomick, Jr., civil rights activist in Beaufort county, shares his story of helping to organize the Welfare Rights Organization (WRO) in Beaufort. McDomick relates how he and other community...
The Civil Rights Movement
1947-1972. Meet South Carolinians who fought for equality during the Civil Rights Movement.
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Mr. Billie Fleming explains the hardship that farmers, teachers and anyone associated with the NAACP during the civil rights movement encountered in their communities from white citizens.
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Interviewed by Juli Cross, A.C. Flora High School and Kevin Baxter, Scott's Branch High School Titus Duren was on of the first minority students to enter Clemson University following desegregation. He...
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Joseph McDomick, Jr., former Penn Center project supervisor for over thirty years, talks about Dr. King's many visits to Penn Center and how the visits had to be kept quiet because of the threats on...
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Cecil J. Williams did a great deal of civil rights photography. Even as a young boy, before he understood what was going on, he took many important photographs.
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Cecil J. Williams is a native of Orangeburg, South Carolina. He began taking documentary photographs of his community at the age of nine. By 15, he was working professionally as a freelancer for Jet...
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Benjamin Mays (1894-1984) was a minister, educator, scholar and social activist. He was known as the "Father of the Civil Rights Movement."
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James Burrows Edwards was born in Hawthorne, Florida, and was an officer in the U.S. Maritime Service during World War II. Edwards received a bachelor's degree in 1950 at the College of Charleston. He...
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Part 6 of the Modjeska Simkins story. An African American girl born to a half-white, half-black brick mason, Modjeska came from relative wealth and married into wealth, but dedicated her life to...
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Part 1 of the Modjeska Simkins story. An African American girl born to a half-white, half-black brick mason, Modjeska came from relative wealth and married into wealth, but dedicated her life to...