Dr. Matilda A. Evans, a black physician, public health and civil rights advocate, lived here from 1928 to 1935. A graduate of the Schofield School in Aiken and Oberlin College, Evans received her M.D. from the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1897. She...
This church is a part of the Hampton-Pinckney Historic District and is in one of Greenville’s oldest neighborhoods. The congregation was organized in 1878 and this building was constructed in 1887. The ground floor originally held a parochial school for African...
Matthew J. Perry, Jr., lawyer, civil rights pioneer, and jurist, lived in a house on this site as a youth, the house was torn down in 1997. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II, then graduated from S.C. State College in 1948. After graduating in the first...
The McCollum-Murray House was constructed c. 1906 for Edward J. (d. 1942) and Margaret McCollum (d. 1949), an African American couple who moved to Greeleyville around the turn of the 20th century. The house features elements of folk Victorian and Classical Revival...
This congregation, organized in 1866 as a brush arbor near Mt. Zion Church, was one of the first African Methodist Episcopal Zion (AMEZ) churches established in South Carolina after the Civil War. The first wooden structure was built by the members in 1874. It was...
This church, founded in 1867, was one of the first AME churches north of Columbia. It was organized when black Methodists in Newberry sent Carolina Brown and Winnie Simmons to Columbia for the third annual meeting of the South Carolina Conference of the AME Church. ...
After Hilton Head's fall to Union forces in 1861, this town was planned for the area's former slaves and named for General Ormsby M. Mitchel. It was developed into neatly arranged streets and Ľ-acre lots. The town had elected officials, a church, laws, taxes and a...
The Modjeska Monteith Simkins House, built between 1890 and 1895, is one-story Columbia Cottage and home to Modjeska Monteith Simkins, considered the matriarch of South Carolina’s Civil and Human Rights movement. Simkins was a founder of the S.C. Conference of the...
This five-acre park, laid out in the 1798 city plan, features large pine trees reminiscent of the area before the Revolution when Camden was known as “Pine Tree Hill.” In 1912 it was named Monroe Boykin Park for Rev. Monroe Boykin (d. 1904), longtime pastor of Mount...
Morris College is an historically black, coeducational, liberal arts college, operated by the Baptist Educational and Missionary Convention of South Carolina. The school was founded in 1908 by James J. Durham, initially as a grade school, high school, and college. The...
This church was erected about 1854 and was originally a Congregational Church affiliated with Old Wappetaw Church, founded about 1699. It served as a Confederate hospital during the Civil War, then briefly housed the Laing School for Freedmen during Reconstruction. ...
This church was founded in 1883 and formally organized as First Baptist Church, Colored, in 1885. It was later renamed Mt. Prospect Baptist Church. In 1891 Mount Prospect hosted the first classes of Friendship College, founded by Rev. M.P. Hall to offer an education...
The church building for Mt. Tabor was completed in 1878. According to legend, a group of freedmen met in a brush arbor before erecting the structure. Services are still held in the renovated wood frame building that features an off-center staged tower on its façade...
Founded in 1868, this was one of the first black Baptist churches in this area. Alexander Bettis (1836-1895), a former slave, established the congregation with the assistance of three white ministers after the local Baptist association refused to ordain him. Mt....