The Green Book of SC

A Travel Guide to S.C. African American Cultural Sites

Ronald E. McNair Life History Center

Ronald E. McNair Life History Center

Opened in 2011, the Ronald E. McNair Life History Center is a museum that pays tribute to the life of Dr. McNair, a Lake City-born astronaut and physicist who died in the 1986 Challenger Space Shuttle explosion. Through moving photography and artifacts, the museum...
Training the Tuskegee Airmen

Training the Tuskegee Airmen

During World War II, the first African Americans in the U.S. Army Air Corps graduated from the Tuskegee Army Flying School in Alabama. From May 1944 to October 1945, some of them took further combat training here, at Walterboro Army Air Field. Several of the earliest...
South Carolina State University

South Carolina State University

S.C. State University was founded in 1896 as the Colored Normal, Industrial, Agricultural & Mechanical College of S.C., with its origins in the Morrill Land Grant Acts of 1862 and 1890 providing for land-grant colleges.  Intended “for the best education of...