1.0South Carolina Encyclopediahttps://www.scencyclopedia.org/scestudentstaffhttps://www.scencyclopedia.org/sce/author/studentstaff/rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="1y35e00JNr"><a href="https://www.scencyclopedia.org/sce/entries/wilson-donella-brown/">Wilson, Donella Brown</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.scencyclopedia.org/sce/entries/wilson-donella-brown/embed/#?secret=1y35e00JNr" width="600" height="338" title="“Wilson, Donella Brown” — South Carolina Encyclopedia" data-secret="1y35e00JNr" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript"> /* <![CDATA[ */ /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display="none";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):"link"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute("src")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute("data-secret"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:t},"*")},!1)))}(window,document); /* ]]> */ </script> Educator, Civil Rights activist, community leader. Wilson was born on May 24, 1909, on the Peterkin Plantation in Fort Motte, Calhoun County to Henry and Minnie Bryant Brown. Her grandparents had been enslaved on the plantation and her parents continued to work as sharecroppers. When her father died in the 1910s, mother and daughter moved […]