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Hinton, James Miles | South Carolina Public Radio

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Hinton, James Miles | South Carolina Public Radio
“H” is for Hinton, James Miles [1891-1970]. Clergyman, businessman, civil rights leader. A native North Carolinian, Hinton began his business career in Augusta with the black-owned Pilgrim Health and...
Great Wagon Road, The | South Carolina Public Radio

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Great Wagon Road, The | South Carolina Public Radio
“G” is for the Great Wagon Road. The Great Wagon Road stretched for almost eight hundred miles from Philadelphia west to York and Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and thence south through Virginia into the...
Executive Councils | South Carolina Public Radio

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Executive Councils | South Carolina Public Radio
“E” is for Executive Councils. After secession in December 1860, the state had to assume responsibilities previously carried out by the federal government. To do that, the Secession Convention...
Doby, Lawrence Edward | South Carolina Public Radio Duke’s Mayonnaise | South Carolina Public Radio

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Duke’s Mayonnaise | South Carolina Public Radio
“D” is for Duke’s Mayonnaise. Duke’s Mayonnaise is one of the South’s favorite condiments. Around 1917, Eugenia Duke mixed her first batch of mayonnaise in her Greenville home. Unlike similar...
Pinckney, Maria Henrietta | South Carolina Public Radio Pinckney, Eliza Lucas | South Carolina Public Radio

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Pinckney, Eliza Lucas | South Carolina Public Radio
“P” is for Pinckney, Eliza Lucas [ca. 1722-1793]. Planter. Matriarch. Born in the West Indies, Eliza Lucas moved to South Carolina with her family in the 1730s. In 1739, her father returned to the...
Charleston Museum | South Carolina Public Radio Charleston Orphan House | South Carolina Public Radio

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Charleston Orphan House | South Carolina Public Radio
“C” is for the Charleston Orphan House. In 1790, the Charleston City Council established the Charleston Orphan House, the first public orphanage in America. At the turn of the 19th century, a...
Sellers, Cleveland Louis, Jr. | South Carolina Public Radio

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Sellers, Cleveland Louis, Jr. | South Carolina Public Radio
“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...
Doby, Lawrence Edward | South Carolina Public Radio Dunovant, John | South Carolina Public Radio

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Dunovant, John | South Carolina Public Radio
“D” is for Dunovant, John [1825-1864]. Soldier. Dunovant, a sergeant in the Palmetto Regiment, served with distinction in the Mexican War. He later was commissioned as a captain in the U.S. Army. He...
Williamston | South Carolina Public Radio Wilson, Robert | South Carolina Public Radio

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Wilson, Robert | South Carolina Public Radio
“W” is for Wilson, Robert [1867-1946]. Physician, educator. Wilson graduated from South Carolina College and obtained his medical degree from the Medical College of the State of South Carolina. After...