B.O. Butler was the principal of Scott's Branch High School from 1956 until 1971. In 1971 he became the first black Superintendent in Clarendon county and one of the first in the state of South Carolina.
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Lexington Rosenwald School
Like other Rosenwald schools built in the rural landscapes of South Carolina, this one was constructed (in 1928-29) for the African American children of the district. More than $7,000 was raised in the community to combine with the Rosenwald appropriation of $1,200....
St. Mark AME
Organized in 1885 from Liberty Hill AME Church, the first St. Mark AME Church was a frame building. In 1905, the congregation purchased a church from the Presbyterian Church and moved it to the site. This building was struck by lightning and burned in 1915. The church...
Spring Hill AME
Formed in 1898 by 75 members of St. Matthews AME Church, Spring Hill AME built a frame building after meeting in under a bush arbor. By the 1930s, the church also built a school for local children and maintained it until Reverend Joseph DeLaine organized parents in...
Briggs Home
Harry and Eliza Briggs were the lead plaintiffs in Briggs v. Elliott. Their son, Harry Jr., attended Scott's Branch School in Summerton. The case was consolidated with other school segregation challenges by the NAACP into the Brown v. Board of Education suit, which...
Stella White Café
Stella White was a teacher in the Clarendon County Public Schools and was an active community member, being involved in the Order of the Eastern Star and the Trinity AME Church.
Mt. Zion AME Church, Summerton
Organized about 1865, this congregation held its early services in a nearby brush arbor and built a permanent sanctuary here soon afterwards. The original building was torn down in 1918 and the lumber used to construct the new one, which still stands. Church member I....
Mather Museum and Interpretive Center
This interpretive center chronicles the history of Mather School in Beaufort, a boarding school for freed African American females. The institution was founded in 1868 by Boston school teacher Rachel Crane Mather, and is one of many post-Civil War developments that...
Minton Family Home
The historic Minton Family Home in downtown Columbia is an Italianate style townhouse built by a prominent family of the Reconstruction era, whose son became a medical professional and founded the oldest African American Greek letter fraternity in the nation – Sigma...
St. Peter’s AME Church
Established in 1871, this is the oldest community in what is now the city of North Charleston. In 1864, Paul and Harriet Trescot, free persons of color living in Charleston, owned 112 acres here. They sold land to Ishmael Grant, Aaron Middleton, and Plenty and William...
Mulberry AME Church
The formal organization of Mulberry A.M.E. Church dates to c. 1871, but many of the founding members were formerly enslaved people who had a tradition of religious organization that stretched back into slavery. Early meetings were held under a brush arbor. By 1872...
Constitutional Convention of 1868
In January 1868, delegates met to rewrite the South Carolina Constitution. They convened at the Charleston Club House, which once stood nearby. Before the Civil War, the Club House was reserved for Charleston’s planter elite, but a majority of the delegates in 1868...
Clay Hill Graveyard at Allison Creek Presbyterian Church
This church was founded in 1854 by residents of the Clay Hill community on Allison Creek, who were members of Bethel (1769) and Ebenezer (c. 1785) Presbyterian churches. They built this church soon afterwards, on land donated by J.D. Currence. Rev. J.R. Baird, the...
First African Baptist Church, Hilton Head Island
This church, founded in 1862, was originally the church in the town of Mitchelville, a Freedmen’s village established on Hilton Head by the United States Army. Rev. Abraham Murchinson, its first minister, was a former slave and the church had about 120 members when it...