South Carolina – African Americans – 1900 to Present

SC SC African American Resources SC African Americans 1900 to Present

SC Black History

• Blinding of Isaac Woodward – 1946 – highly-decorated World War II veteran blinded by police in Batesburg (present-day Batesburg-Leesville), South Carolina – an excellent and important overview – includes effects on national civil rights movement
  – The Blinding of Isaac Woodard - lyrics to Woodie Guthrie's song about Woodward's beating, arrest, and trial
  

• Briggs v. Elliot - 1954

• Legislative Black Caucus

• NAACP in South Carolina

• Orangeburg Massacre - February 8, 1968 - Three unarmed students are killed in a confrontation with police over efforts to desegregate an Orangeburg bowling alley
  

• Rosenwald Schools - 1917-1932 over 5,000 schools were built in the rural South to educate African-American children
  – Search SC database - National Register of Historic Places nomination forms (PDF) plus links to historic insurance photos
  – Database by County - State Historic Preservation Office
  – Search national database - photos of many of the schools plus detailed funding info
  

• 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
  – Listing of schools by county - click on underlined school names to view picture