South Carolina - Early 20th Century

1914 -1945. Meet South Carolinians who survived and succeeded during World War I (1914-1918), the Roaring Twenties (1920 -1929), and other major events during the early 20th century like The Great Depression (1929-39) and World War II (1939-1945).
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Maude Callen | S.C. Hall of Fame
Maude Callen | S.C. Hall of Fame

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

This episode is about Maude Callen (1898 -- 1990), a Nurse-Midwife, who singlehandedly brought health care to rural Pineville, S.C. and the surrounding area of Berkeley County in the early 1920s...
Mary McLeod Bethune | S.C. Hall of Fame
Mary McLeod Bethune | S.C. Hall of Fame

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

This profile will show how Mary Jane McLeod Bethune, born to poor cotton farmers in Mayesville, S.C., would brilliantly start a school of her own with just $1.50, which became an internationally...
John McKissick | S.C. Hall of Fame
John McKissick | S.C. Hall of Fame

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Coach John McKissick has done something football coaches across the country only dream about. As of 2012, he became the first American football coach in history to win 600 career games. McKissick now...
Julia Mood Peterkin | S.C. Hall of Fame
Julia Mood Peterkin | S.C. Hall of Fame

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Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Julia Mood was born in Laurens County on Halloween 1880. Her mother died when she was two years old. Julia, as a teenager, attended Converse College and received a Masters degree at an early age...
John R. Heller | S.C. Hall of Fame
John R. Heller | S.C. Hall of Fame

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Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

John Roderick Heller was born in Fair Play, South Carolina. He was a graduate of Clemson College and Emory University Medical School. In 1943, Dr. Heller was appointed chief of the U.S. Public Health...
Thomas B. Pearce | Legacy of Leadership Profile
Thomas B. Pearce | Legacy of Leadership Profile

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Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

A profile of Thomas Butler Pearce. (1888–1947) Tom Pearce built a small wholesale produce business into one of the nation's largest food distribution companies and still found time to serve his...
Anne Austin Young | S.C. Hall of Fame
Anne Austin Young | S.C. Hall of Fame

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Grades: 6 7 8

Anne Austin Young was born in 1892. In a day when relatives and friends threw up their hands in horror at the thought of a woman physician and when people in her home town of Cross Hill referred to...
Elliott White Springs | S.C. Hall of Fame
Elliott White Springs | S.C. Hall of Fame

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Grades: 9 10 11 12

"There's no such thing as bad publicity..." This remark, attributed to Irish playwright Brendan Behan, sums up the advertising philosophy of noted textile executive Elliott White Springs of Springs...
Bernard M. Baruch | Legacy of Leadership Profile
Bernard M. Baruch | Legacy of Leadership Profile

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Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

1870–1965 Bernard M. Baruch, the "Park Bench Statesman," made his fortune on Wall Street, but his greatest challenge and his greatest satisfaction were his service to his country as an economic...
Bernard Baruch | S.C. Hall of Fame
Bernard Baruch | S.C. Hall of Fame

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Bernard Mannes Baruch was by all accounts one of the most famous and influential Americans of his era -- and certainly one of the wealthiest. Born in South Carolina in 1870, Baruch was a governor of...