COLUMBIA, SC (WACH) -- Remembering a pioneer in South Carolina's Civil Rights Movement, Dr. James Solomon Jr. led the charge to integrate the University of South Carolina. He passed away on ...

The deep history of the Penn Center, a former school for enslaved West Africans, and its connection to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Settled by the English in 1670, the colony named for King Charles I was split into North and South Carolina in ... and with the civil rights movement of the 1960s, segregation and legal ...

In only four states — Mississippi, Georgia, South Carolina, and Virginia ... The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994), pp.

South Carolina native Jesse Jackson became involved in sit-ins while in college and joined the SCLC in 1965. In 1966, Martin Luther King, Jr. took the civil rights movement north with a campaign ...

By: Guy Gugliotta       SC Daily Gazette The first words of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution tell us that “all persons born or naturalized?

He would not normalize a moment like this,” Booker said of Lewis’ work as a young activist during the Civil Rights Movement ... the avowed segregationist from South Carolina who filibustered the Civil ...

The court will decide whether Medicaid beneficiaries may sue to receive services under a law that lets them choose any qualified provider.

He has practiced civil rights law in South Carolina and served as director of the human rights commission in Des Moines, Iowa. His film, “Breaking Bread, Building Bridges,” debuted in 2020.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 addressed all spheres of public life--social, political, and economic. “C” is for Civil Rights Act (1964) Listen · 0:59 0:59 ...