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Prior to the civil rights movement in South Carolina, African Americans in the state had very few political rights. South Carolina briefly had a majority-black government during the Reconstruction era after the Civil War, but with the 1876 inauguration of Governor Wade Hampton III, a Democrat who supported the disenfranchisement of blacks, African Americans in South Carolina struggled to ...
Edwards vs. South Carolina monument, Columbia, SC. Edwards v. South Carolina, 372 U.S. 229 (1963), was a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court ruling that the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution forbade state government officials to force a crowd to disperse when they are otherwise legally marching in front of a state house.
In May 2024, a bill passed the South Carolina Legislature and signed into law by the Governor of South Carolina implementing a ban on gender-affirming healthcare for individuals under 18 years old, and a ban on federal funding going directly or indirectly towards gender affirming care for adults. The legislation went into effect immediately ...
What are South Carolina's abortion laws? The Center for Reproductive Rights made a post on Aug. 23, 2023, explaining and condemning the S.C. Supreme Court's decisions on abortion.
Officials said the civil rights probes will examine the conditions at detention centers in the southern state's urban hubs of Charleston and Columbia. Two South Carolina jails where incarcerated ...
The South Carolina Code of Laws, also SC Code of Laws, is the compendium of all laws in the U.S. state of South Carolina. Divided into 62 chapters, the code provides a legal interpretation of all rights and punishments to all citizens of South Carolina.
Beginning in the late 1870s, Democrats repealed most of the laws passed by Republicans during the Reconstruction era, thus revoking civil liberties and rights from South Carolina African Americans. For instance, an 1879 miscegenation statute prohibited interracial marriages, stating "Marriage between a white person and an Indian, Negro, mulatto ...
Enacted a miscegenation statute in 1866 forbidding marriage between whites and Negroes or Indians. This law was repealed in 1887. Six civil rights laws barring segregation were passed between 1890 and 1956. 1866: Miscegenation [Statute] Prohibited marriage between white persons and Negroes, Indians, or a person of half or more Negro or Indian ...