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Anti-Klan parade and poster in Orangeburg. Todd Houston photo, February 1987. Courtesy of "The State" newspaper.
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Motorcycle enthusiasts in front of the State House protest a proposal to make safety helmets mandatory for all motorcycle riders. Photo by Doug Gilmore, published October 1985. Courtesy of "The State"...
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Protestors against abortion picket outside the Planned Parenthood building on the 10th anniversary of the Supreme Court Decision in "Roe v. Wade" allowing abortion. January 1983 photo by Perry Baker...
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The chariot of a circus parade rolls through the Main Street of Rock Hill amid the crowd in 1897. Courtesy of the Winthrop University Archives.
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Festival Day in Sumter, a fall celebration of the cotton crop, was held in front of the Farmer's Bank and Trust Company building around 1913. The building was originally built as Sumter County's...
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After Reconstruction ended, there gradually emerged in South Carolina, as in other parts of the South, a romanticization of the "old South" and the glories of the Confederacy--a period many chose to...
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Freedmen on St. Helena's Island celebrated Emancipation Day, the anniversary of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, as an important holiday, with parades, speeches, and solemn remembrance. This...
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Margaret Law Trenholm and her friend Mrs. Plowden (in white) are dressed for fishing at the north causeway to Pawley's Island in 1910. From the Trenholm/Morgan Photograph Collection. Courtesy of the...
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Rock Cliff Park in Spartanburg provided a place to swim; a postcard view at the turn of the century shows the trolley that brought swimmers directly to the pool. Courtesy of the Howard G. Woody...
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This photograph from the album of J.S. White records a picnic in the vicinity of Rock Hill in May of 1897. Courtesy of the Winthrop University Archives.