by Thomas Crawford | May 16, 2024
This museum, lovingly curated and designed by Civil Rights-era photographer Cecil Williams, delivers a story about a generation of people who fought for equal rights throughout the Palmetto State. As staff photographer for Jet Magazine and a content provider for Time...
by greenbook_admin | May 16, 2024
Rev. DeLaine and other petitioners met at this church regularly after Thurgood Marshall made a commitment to represent them in the Briggs vs. Elliott lawsuit. The church was originally established in 1860 as a brush arbor. Today’s building is a small white...
by greenbook_admin | May 16, 2024
Community leaders met at this church to plan how to proceed with the Pearson v. Clarendon County Board of Education lawsuit in 1947. At the time, the district provided thirty school buses for white children but none for blacks. African American children often walked...
by greenbook_admin | May 16, 2024
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.
by greenbook_admin | May 16, 2024
Railroad Avenue was the site of a thriving Black business district in downtown Summerton during segregation. Owners of several businesses, including Stella’s Cafe and Oliver’s Cafe, were among those who signed the original petition that resulted in the...
