On March 2, 1961, over 200 African American college and high school students marched 6 blocks from Zion Baptist Church to the S.C. State House in an NAACP organized protest of racial segregation. Led by Benedict College theology student David Carter, protesters walked...
This was the last site of a segregated school for Black residents of West Columbia with roots extending to at least the early 1900s. First called the Brookland or New Brookland Colored School, it was located on Lacy Street by c. 1931 when it served grades 1-8. Grade...
Holly Springs School is locally significant as an early example of an African American school in Greenville County, South Carolina. Built ca. 1891, the school is a single-story, one-room, wood-frame building with a double front entrance. The building faces east and is...
The General Assembly of the State of South Carolina authorized the establishment of Denmark Technical College in 1947 and the College began operation on March 1, 1948, as the Denmark Branch of the South Carolina Trade School System. At its inception, the institution...
The Greenville County Museum of Art (GCMA) has one of the world's most extensive collections of works created by African American artists from South Carolina, including the largest institutional collections of clay vessels made by enslaved Edgefield artisan David...
In 1938, Orangeburg's first black high school opened in this building, constructed by the Works Progress Administration. It was named for Dr. Robert Shaw Wilkinson (1865-1932), president of S.C. State Agricultural & Mechanical College. The school's mascot was...
In 1938, Orangeburg’s first black high school opened on Goff Ave. at a campus built by the Works Progress Administration. It was named for Dr. Robert Shaw Wilkinson (1865-1932), pres. of S.C. State A&M College. The school’s mascot was the Wolverines, and its...
On March 3-4, 1960, members of the Florence Youth branch of the NAACP staged protest demonstrations here at the former S.H. Kress store. Wilson High School students marched from Trinity Baptist Church to sit at the store's lunch counter, but were refused service and...
Black Rock Baptist Church formally organized by 1874 and was originally part of the Gethsemane Baptist Association. The church traces its roots to the early ministry of its first pastor, Leroy Featherstone (c. 1836-1919), believed to have begun when he was enslaved. ...
Early on May 13, 1862, Robert Smalls (1839-1915), an enslaved harbor pilot aboard the Planter, seized the 149 ft. Confederate transport from a wharf just east of here. He and six enslaved crewmen took the vessel before dawn when its captain, pilot, and engineer were...
Located 1.5 miles SW from here, Mosquito Beach is a .13 mile strip of land that served African Americans during the Jim Crow era, when nearby Folly Beach was segregated. The beach began as a gathering spot for workers at a nearby oyster factory in the 1920s and...
Organized in 1881, this Negro Presbyterian (USA) school was founded by the Rev. J. P. Crawford with support from Mrs. C. E. Coulter from whom it received its name. The Rev. G. W. Long was academy president from 1908 until 1943, and Coulter offered junior college...
"Little Africa" was one of a number of independent African American communities formed across the South after the Civil War. Founded c. 1880 by former slaves Simpson Foster and Emanuel Waddell, it was originally just a few acres set aside for their relatives. It...
Listed in the Negro Travelers' Green Book from 1939 to 1941, Ruth's was one of six Columbia area beauty parlors listed in the Jim Crow era travel guide during its history. Opened in the late 1930s by Mrs. Ruth Collins (Perry), daughter of two successful Black...