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  • Title Women
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  • Keywords slow progress, Married women had no other legal protection for their property until 1868, power of the husband was generally unchecked by the law, By the 1840s some private schools existed around the state, making a classical education available to upper-class women, 1850s several religious denominations established women’s colleges, no private colleges for African American women, In the late twentieth century women in South Carolina were still less likely than women in the nation as a whole to have completed a four-year college degree or even to have finished high school, Shannon Faulkner’s admission to the Citadel in 1995 and Nancy Mace’s graduation from that institution in 1999, women breached the state’s most ardent bastion of all-male higher education, Despite the limitations that attitudes and law placed on women’s roles, South Carolina women were actively involved in charitable and religious organizations throughout the 1800s, “widow’s mandate.”
  • Website Name South Carolina Encyclopedia
  • Publisher University of South Carolina, Institute for Southern Studies
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  • Access Date April 18, 2024
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  • Date of Last Update August 26, 2022

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