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The Charleston Museum is a museum located in the Wraggborough neighborhood in Charleston, South Carolina. Established in 1773, it is the oldest museum in the United States. [1] Its collection includes historic artifacts, natural history, decorative arts and two historic Charleston houses. It replaced the Old Charleston Museum that burned down ...
Pages in category "Museums in Charleston, South Carolina" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
On March 17, 1969, a group of 300 African-American women healthcare workers at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston protested unequal pay and unsafe working conditions. Coretta Scott King , the widowed wife of Martin Luther King Jr. , was among the protesting women, and this was the Southern Christian Leadership Conference 's ...
This is a list of the first women lawyer(s) and judge(s) in South Carolina.It includes the year in which the women were admitted to practice law (in parentheses). Also included are women who achieved other distinctions such becoming the first in their state to graduate from law school or become a political figure.
Charleston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of South Carolina, the county seat of Charleston County, [9] and the principal city in the Charleston metropolitan area. [ b ] The city lies just south of the geographical midpoint of South Carolina's coastline on Charleston Harbor , an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean formed by the confluence ...
South Carolina Lavinia Fisher (c. 1793 – February 18, 1820) was an American criminal who, according to urban legends , was the first female serial killer in the United States of America. [ 1 ] She was married to John Fisher, and both were convicted of highway robbery —a capital offense at the time—not murder .
Tonya Matthews is an American biomedical engineer and administrator who serves as the Chief Executive Officer and President of the International African American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina. She previously served as the CEO and President of Michigan Science Center , where in 2016, she helped launch the STEMinista Project to engage ...
Laura Mary Bragg was born in Massachusetts on October 9, 1881, one of three children of Rev. Lyman Bragg and Sarah Jane (Klotz) Bragg. [1]: 1, 6 [2] [3] She spent a few of her earliest years in Mississippi, where her father was a professor at Rust University, a college for formerly enslaved people.