South Carolina – African American History and Resources

South Carolina SC African American History, Resources

SC Black History

• Timeline of major events - 1525-1997

• Historical periods
  – Slavery, Civil War - 1525-1865
  – Reconstruction, Restoration - 1865-1900
  – Twentieth Century - 1900-present
  – Glossary - important terms used in this section of SCIWAY
  

• Historical places
  – African American Historic Places in South Carolina - PDF - by county - large file
  – Charleston Black Heritage - visitors guide
  – Greenville Cultural Exchange Center
  – Hamburg - includes info on Carpentersville community
  – Hewn-timber slave cabins - Florence - 1836
  – Lincolnville - Dorchester County
  – Mays House Museum - childhood home of Benjamin Mays
  – Old Slave Mart Museum - Charleston
  – Road Trip! Through South Carolina Civil Rights History - virtual tours
  – Slave Relic Museum - Walterboro
  

• Historical images
  – African Passages - Ashley River Corridor's sites of importance
  – Slave relics
  – South Carolina's Equalization Schools - 1951-1960 new schools were constructed to provide "separate but equal" education for African American students in an attempt to prolong the desegregation of public schools - click on underlined school names to view picture
  

• About Our Freedom - articles, images, genealogy tips
  
• Heritage, Not Hate? - article on slavery, Reconstruction, the KKK, lynching, and Jim Crow
  

Black South Carolinians

• Distinguished SC African-Americans
  – Alphabetical list
  – Chronological list
  

• African-Americans of Woodlands Plantation - Simms family

SC Black Culture

• Festivals, events
• Gullah heritage, language - music, dance, art, crafts, food, religion, West African traditions and influences, and more
  
• Center for Southern African-American Music - includes print, audio and video archives - University of South Carolina
  
• Freewoods Farm - Horry County - living farm highlights the contributions of family-owned, African-American farms in the post-Civil War era
  
• Soul of the Pee Dee - scroll down for link to large PDF document detailing regional culture past and present
  
• The Gullah Creole Language
• The Gullah Dialect and Sea Island Culture
• Transatlantic Linkage: The Gullah/Geechee-Sierra Leone Connection
• Lifestyle of the Mende People of South Carolina - African traditions and crafts retained in Gullah cluture
  
• From Africa to South Carolina: the Sea Grass Basket Tradition

SC Black Schools, Colleges, Libraries

• Black schools and libraries in South Carolina - Rosenwald Schools, normal schools, and more
  – SC Equalization Schools - also called "Separate but Equal" Schools
• Historically black colleges in South Carolina
• Penn Center - St. Helena Island

SC African-American Organizations

• Historically black churches
• More South Carolina organizations

Related SC African-American Resources

• African Americans in the Armed Forces - from the Revolution to Vietnam
  
• After Slavery - collaborative research effort focused on labor, race, and citizenship in the post-emancipation Carolinas
  
• Distribution of SC Black Population by County - 1999 - map and county rankings
  
• Family Tyes SC - promoting Gullah culture
  
• Most Overlooked Record Types in South Carolina - 66 minute genealogy research video, particularly helpful with African American research
  
• SC Black News - newspaper published weekley
• SCGenWeb's African American Research
• Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database - documents 300 years of slave trade from Africa - users can search nearly 35,000 voyages and over 70,000 names