In these videos learn about civil rights leaders from the following mid-state counties: Aiken, Allendale, Bamberg, Barnwell, Calhoun, Chesterfield, Clarendon, Darlington, Fairfield, Kershaw, Lancaster, Lee, Lexington, Orangeburg, Richland and Sumter.
Please note many of the web videos include transcripts.
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Eliza and Harry Briggs, Sr. are listed as the first petitioners on the lawsuits from the 1940s and 1950s. Harry, a gas station attendant in Summerton, and his wife, Eliza, lost their jobs and were...
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Desiree Platt talks about her experiences with segregation. Native Americans were allowed to attend school only up to eighth grade.
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Ferdinand Pearson talks about the school conditions for black children in Clarendon County. Starting at the age of six, he had to walk to a school which was located over four miles away from his home.
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Ferdinand Pearson the son of South Carolina civil rights pioneer, Levi Pearson, talks about the court case that his father brought against the Clarendon County School Board. The court case asked for...
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Minister Harrison Goodwin, a former student at Schofield Middle School, talks about his experience during the civil rights movement.
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Congressman James E. Clyburn, member of the United States House of Representatives for the 6th District of South Carolina, shares how Rev. J. A. DeLaine had to flee South Carolina. Sadly, Rev. DeLaine...
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Many of the Briggs v. Elliott plaintiffs and those associated with them experienced intimidation and violence at the hands of the Klu Klux Klan (KKK), a white supremacy group. Living in the area...
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Beginning in the 1950s, Judge Matthew Perry, Jr became the leading civil rights lawyer in South Carolina. Judge Perry was the first African American federal judge in South Carolina. The Matthew J...
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Molly Scott talks about not seeing more local Native American history in her school textbooks.
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Catherine Fleming Bruce, the Curator for the Modjeska Simkins House, gives a brief history of the Visanska-Starks Carriage House in the Waverly Community. The home is connected to Historically Black...
