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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...
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Union County's most famous military organization was "The Johnson Rifles." Named in honor of Governor David Johnson, these riflemen were the first South Carolinians to report for duty in the Mexican...
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The broom of justice sweeps the Coleman Livingston Blease (see Governor Coleman L. Blease) administration out of office in this cartoon from the Columbia "Record" on September 9, 1914, titled "Good...
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James S. White of Rock Hill kept a scrapbook of his activities as a Second Lieutenant in Company G of the first South Carolina Infantry during the Spanish-American War. Here he and his friend J.C...
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Recruits for the army that was raised to fight the Spanish-American War, begun in 1898 when the battleship "Maine" exploded in a Cuban harbor, were trained at Camp Wetherill near Greenville. This Army...
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The Constitution of 1895. This is the present Constitution of the State of South Carolina, which defines state and local governmental power. However, over the last 94 years it has been so amended, or...
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Postcard from Wm. H. Cobb and Co. 5 & 10 Cent Stores, Greenville. "Two South Carolina Products: A County Dispensary and Yoked Oxen as Motive Power." Ca. 1910. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library...
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The official Dispensary liquor label. One of the most controversial political issues in a period when political controversy dominated state politics, was the State Dispensary, a plan under which all...
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George W. Shell, Benjamin R. Tillman, and John L.M. Irby pose for an 1890 photograph with the caption, "Leaders of the Farmer's Movement in South Carolina." The rise and rule of Tillmanism in South...
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In the early 1880s, the federal government began to purchase land in the Port Royal area for a permanent naval base. Plans for such a base had long been the dream of Robert Smalls, the U.S...