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Postwar politics in South Carolina were affected by the many changes that the war had brought. Many new citizens flocked to the state, partly because of the many military bases there, and partly...
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The famous "Barnwell Ring" of South Carolina. Senator Edgar Brown, left, the state's senior Senator and chairman of the finance committee, and House Speaker Sol Blatt (see Solomon Blatt), both from...
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Slowly, South Carolina witnessed the rebirth of a two-party system in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1964, the state voted against a southern Democratic candidate, Texan Lyndon B. Johnson, and instead cast...
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Henri Monteith Treadwell (age 17), James Solomon (age 33) and Robert Anderson (age 19), speaking to news media after registering in September 1963 as the first African-American students at the...
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The first integration of public higher education in South Carolina came at Clemson University. The student who successfully sued for admission with the help of his NAACP attorney, Matthew Perry (left)...
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One of the methods of non-violent protest against segregation, taught by Martin Luther King and others in the Civil Rights Movement, was the practice of sit-ins at restaurants and coffee shops...
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James Francis Byrnes (see Governor James Byrnes) rose to prominence in South Carolina and the nation, first in the House of Representatives, and then in the Senate. A supporter of Roosevelt's New Deal...
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The Columbia Army Air Base in Lexington County became the headquarters of Colonel Jimmy Doolittle's famous "Raiders," who trained there for their bombing run over Tokyo. Courtesy of the Thomas Cooper...
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The end of the Second World War came with the surrender of Japan on VJ Day, August 14, 1945. South Carolinians celebrated the victory with dancing in the streets of Charleston and with great joy. They...
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In the early years of the twentieth century, a number of prominent, wealthy Northerners purchased land on the Waccamaw Neck. Bernard Baruch, who bought Hobcaw Barony in 1905 as a winter vacation home...