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Dr. Benjamin Mays, educator, minister, and scholar, is seen as one of the most significant figures in American history. His influence of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., would cause America to change its...
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Dr. Mays’ relationship with Martin Luther King Jr., is probably the most significant one, and King has admitted that Mays was his influence to become a minister. Since Mays did not have any boys of...
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After graduating from Bates, Benjamin Mays held several teaching positions, teaching math, and then later, English, at South Carolina State College. From 1934-1940, Mays served as dean of religion at...
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Mays continued on with his career, meeting and advising with other world leaders. He was appointed by President John F. Kennedy to serve on the commission on civil rights, and played a role in race...
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Throughout Richard Roberts’ works, the image of “The New Negro” is personified; that after years of slavery, there are now new opportunities, along with freedom, and upwards mobility. Roberts loved...
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The Roberts family always wanted to do something with the historic photographs they had on hand. With the cooperation of both the Roberts family and the Columbia Museum of Art, the book A True...
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The people in the photos; who were they? Identifying the subjects in the photos would prove to be difficult, since few records were kept of those who were photographed. The Roberts family became a...
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An old photograph taken sometime between 1912 and 1914 is found, and experts were told to visit a Miss Hattie May Cornwell, in the Arsenal Hill community of Columbia, S.C. She not only identified the...
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Myrtle Beach City Council member Mary Jeffcoat. This is her full interview from the SCETV documentary "Sea Change." The following questions were addressed in the video: What brought you to become...
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Mr. Williams is the Executive Director for the Corporate Climate Alliance in John's island, SC. This is his full interview from the SCETV documentary "Sea Change." The following questions were...