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Segregation policies led to attempts by the African-American community to ensure that institutions such as libraries were created for their use, and the African-American library movement was...
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The interior of the Mary C. Judson Library at Greenville Woman's College, around 1950. From the Baptist Historical Collection. Courtesy of the Furman University Archives Special Collections Department...
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The Oberlin Unit of Faith Cabin Library, in Seneca. These libraries were the result of the cooperation of a white textile mill laborer and a teacher in an African-American school in Edgefield County...
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The reading room of the University of South Carolina's library in 1925. The building, erected in 1940, is the earliest separate college library structure in the country, and was the main university...
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The Greenville County Library operated a bookmobile in the 1920s that was used by both African-American and white students. Courtesy of the National Records and Archives Administration.
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The scarcity and value of books made the establishment of libraries an important early cultural institution. This Pineville Library Society bookplate, designed by the Pineville Academy to identify and...
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“S” is for Seigler, Marie Samuella Cromer [1882-1964]. Educator. Girl’s club founder. In 1909, Seigler, an Abbeville County native, heard a representative of the U.S. Department of Agriculture extoll...
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“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...
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“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...
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“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...