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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 ...
The Charleston hospital strike was a two-month movement in Charleston, South Carolina that protested the unfair and unequal treatment of African American hospital workers. . Protests began after twelve black employees were fired for voicing their concerns to the president of Medical College Hospital, which is now the Medical University of South Carol
103rd Governor of South Carolina; In office January 21, 1947 – January 16, 1951 ... due to the latter's support for civil rights. In the 1960 South Carolina Senate ...
A new multimillion-dollar agreement will expand the Center for Civil Rights. For Rep. Jim Clyburn and other community members, it celebrates a lived history.
Robert McNair, Governor of South Carolina from 1965 to 1971. The reaction of the mainstream media was mainly indifference or support for the actions of the police. Civil rights demonstrations had come to be seen as violent after major riots in Detroit and Newark the previous summer. According to journalist and later historian Dave Nolan, "most ...
He again "delivered a celebrated speech" in favor of the Civil Rights Act of 1875. [7] He resigned on November 1, 1874, to serve as sheriff and fight political corruption in South Carolina. He served again in the South Carolina House of Representatives, where he was elected as Speaker of the House. [3]
Matthew James Perry Jr. (August 3, 1921 – July 29, 2011) was an attorney and in 1979 appointed as the first African-American United States district judge in South Carolina, serving on the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina.
McNair was governor during the Orangeburg Massacre in 1968, which he blamed on Black Power advocates, and called it a stain on the state's good record in civil rights. In 2006, decades after leaving office, McNair admitted responsibility for the deaths of the three Black civil rights activists killed in Orangeburg.