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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.
Beginning in the late 1870s, Democrats repealed most of the laws passed by Republicans during the Reconstruction era, thus revoking civil liberties and rights from South Carolina African Americans.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 ...
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 ...
Much of how South Carolina has seen its civil rights history has been through the lens of photographer Cecil Williams. From sit-ins to prayer protests to portraits of African Americans integrating ...
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 This law was repealed in 1887.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 ...
A display is seen at the museum created by South Carolina civil rights photographer Cecil Williams, the only civil rights museum in the state, on Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2023, in Orangeburg, South Carolina.
The 1865 South Carolina constitution created after the Civil War did not provide newly freed African-Americans suffrage. [10] This was in conflict with the Reconstruction Act of 1867 and led South Carolina to need a new constitution.