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After the Civil War, Florence made a quick transition. Damaged rails were repaired, fields were planted, businesses reopened, and the population increased. Many refugees fled to Florence from...
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This program is based on an oral history conducted by the New Jersey Multi-Ethnic Oral History Project. The subject is a black woman who moved with her family from South Carolina to New Jersey in the...
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The Reconstruction period will perhaps always be one of the most controversial in South Carolina's history. In this lesson we use a number of vignettes tied together, by the host, to present various...
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Born near Society Hill, James Lide Coker (1837-1918) attended local schools, the South Carolina Military Institute of Charleston, and Harvard University, where he received specialized agricultural...
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NOTE: Teachers are advised to preview this program for scenes and content that they feel may not be appropriate for use in their classrooms. This program explores the facts and legends surrounding...
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NOTE: Teachers are advised to preview this program for scenes and content that they feel may not be appropriate for use in their classrooms. This program explores the facts and legends surrounding...
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In this episode, host Alex Sanders, takes a look at a South Carolina Civil War hero, Robert Smalls. Smalls was born as an enslaved person in 1839 in Beaufort, South Carolina. In 1851, Smalls was hired...
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Sarah Campbell Allan (1860-1933) was the first woman doctor in South Carolina. A pre-med course offered at the South Carolina College for Women in Columbia (later Chicora College - see Chicora College...
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The advent of a new century made many leaders of the South begin to talk of a New South, where industry and diversity would end the poverty and backwardness that had characterized too much of the...
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The equal suffrage movement of women demanding the right to vote developed slowly in South Carolina. This parade in Aiken on January 26, 1917, claimed to be "The First Suffrage Parade in South...