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Benjamin James Glover | SC African American History Calendar (2020) - Episode 5 Lottie Gibson | SC African American History Calendar (2019) 3

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Lottie Gibson | SC African American History Calendar (2019)
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For over sixty years, Lottie Gibson fought for Greenville County’s poor and disadvantaged. As a life member of the NAACP’s Greenville Branch, Gibson was an outspoken civil rights activist. As a youth...
Mann-Simons House Photo Gallery | Let's Go!

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Mann-Simons House Photo Gallery | Let's Go!
Mann-Simons Partial Family Tree Mann-Simons Family Portraits Case of Excavated Artifacts, Including A Rubber "Bouncy" Ball Photograph of John Lucius Simons, Sr.'s Sons: John Lucius Simons, Jr. (Left)...
Modjeska Simkins - Glossary | Idella Bodie S.C. Women

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Modjeska Simkins - Glossary | Idella Bodie S.C. Women
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Glossary Abandon – leave place because of danger; leave somebody behind Career – long-term or lifelong job Communist – a supporter of Communism or a member of an organization that supports or...
Matthew Perry 102

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Matthew Perry
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Upon returning home to Columbia, Matthew Perry established the Jenkins and Perry Law Firm, and became the chief legal counsel for the S.C. NAACP, where he began the battle toward the desegregation of...
Matthew Perry 103

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Matthew Perry
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In 1975, after a nomination from Senator Strom Thurmond, then President Gerald Ford nominated Matthew Perry to a position on the U.S. Court of Military Appeals. Perry discusses what the Court of...
Matthew Perry 101

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Matthew Perry
Episode 101
Matthew Perry was born in Columbia, South Carolina, on August 3, 1921. Perry grew up in Columbia, and attended South Carolina State University, where he studied business administration. His education...
Briggs v. Elliott | South Carolina Public Radio

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Briggs v. Elliott | South Carolina Public Radio
"B" is for Briggs v. Elliott (1954). Briggs v. Elliott was one of five cases, collectively entitled Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka, Shawnee, KS, et al., argued before the U.S. Supreme...
Simkins, Modjeska Monteith | South Carolina Public Radio

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Simkins, Modjeska Monteith | South Carolina Public Radio
“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...