African-Americans

Educator. Wofford was born on October 20, 1894, in Laurens, the eldest of ten children of John Albert Wofford and…

Although women constitute a majority of South Carolina’s population, they have had to overcome many of the same barriers to…

The enfranchisement of women was first publicly discussed during the Reconstruction era in South Carolina. During the 1868 State Constitutional…

Woodard’s case gained national recognition as one of several incidents of racial discrimination against black veterans returning from service after World War II.

Restaurateur, author, businesswoman. Woods was born in Brooklyn, New York, on February 2, 1926, the only child of Van and…

When Congress declared war on Germany in April 1917, part of South Carolina was already on a war footing. Charleston…

Prior to the entry of the United States into World War II, the depressed South Carolina economy had already started…

Human relations activist. Born in Marion on March 12, 1902, Wright was the first child of the banker Samuel Wilkins…

Educator. Wright was born in Talbotton, Georgia, on April 3, 1872, the seventh of twenty-one children born to the African…

Wright’s prominent role in the state constitutional convention won him wide praise. After narrowly losing the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor at the party’s 1868 convention, Wright was elected to the state Senate from Beaufort County, making him among the state’s first African American legislators.

Educator. Born into slavery on August 11, 1862, in Spartanburg, Wright was the youngest of three daughters of Lott and…

The first major epidemic struck Charleston in 1699, killing about fifteen percent of the population, including many officials.

Industrial development in the late nineteenth century dramatically changed York County. Rock Hill was home to the first steam-driven cotton mill in South Carolina, the Rock Hill Cotton Factory, which began operation in 1880.

Young’s career followed the pattern of many suffragists. After active participation in Baptist missionary societies, she joined the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) in 1886. Suffrage appealed as an avenue to temperance goals.