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South Carolina – Notable African-Americans – By Name
Also see: SC Notable African-Americans – By Historical Period
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- Kimberly Clarice Aiken - Columbia - Miss America 1994 - founder, president of HERO (Homeless Education and Resource Organization)
- Marjorie Amos-Frazier - b. 1926, Manning - first woman to be elected to the Charleston County Council - first female SC Public Service Commissioner
- Webster Anderson - b. 1933, Winnsboro - Sergeant First Class, US Army - Congressional Medal of Honor for service in Vietnam War
- John Artemus - b. 1885, Edgefield - labor organizer
- Charles P. Austin, Sr. - Columbia's first African-American Chief of Police
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- Anna DeCosta Banks - nursing pioneer
- Augusta Baker - 1911-1998 - librarian, storyteller
- Charlotta Spears Bass - c. 1874-1969 - newspaper publisher, Civil Rights leader, first African-American woman to run for Vice President of the United States
- Clayton "Peg Leg" Bates - one-legged dancer
- Luther J. Battiste, III, Esquire - attorney, business leader, public servant
- Dr. Thaddeus J. Bell - physician
- Paul Benjamin - actor - played in such movies as Do The Right Thing, Stanley's Gig, The Five Heartbeats, Across 110th Street, Gideon's Trumpet, and Rosewood
- Bishop Joseph Benjamin Bethea - minister
- Mary McLeod Bethune - founded Bethune-Cookman College, National Council for Negro Women
– Brief biography
– Bethune-Cookman College Collection - overview of collection
- Kitty Black-Perkins - fashion designer
- James A. Blake, Sr. - educator
- Charles Bolden - astronaut
- Ethel Martin Bolden - librarian
- James E. Bostic, Jr., Ph.D. - businessman
- Harold R. Boulware, Sr. - judge & chief attorney in Briggs v. Elliot, Clarendon County school desegregation case
- Reverend William M. Bowman, Sr.
- Paul and Wendy C. Brawley - small business owners
- Lila Mae Brock - community leader
- Israel Brooks, Jr. - law enforcement officer
- J. Anthony Brown - entertainer
– Interview
– J. Anthony Brown's web site
- James Brown - singer - also called the "Godfather of Soul"
- James F. Brown, D.D.S.
- Joe E. Brown - state lawmaker, school administrator
- Maxine Brown - soul singer
- W. Melvin Brown - businessman
- Ruth Ann Butler - founder/director of the Greenville Cultural Exchange Center
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- Beryl Dakers - filmaker, journalist
- Reverend Joseph A. Darby, Jr.
- Everett L. Dargan, M.D. - thoracic, cardiovascular surgeon
- Viola Davis - Tony award winning actress
- Herbert A. DeCosta, Jr. - restoration consultant, general contractor
- Reverend Joseph Armstrong DeLaine - Civil Rights leader from Summerton who helped end segregation in South Carolina schools
– DeLaine Pardoned after 45 Years - Washington Post
– DeLaine's papers, letters, manuscripts - University of South Carolina
– DeLaine's children recall their segregated school - video - requires free registration and QuickTime
– Tribute to DeLaine by Liberty Hill AME Church - Summerton
- Willie Dereef - master boatbuilder
- Ophelia DeVore-Mitchell - writer
- Peggy Dillard-Toone - model
- Margaret Abner Dixon, Ed.D. - educator, volunteer
- Larry Doby - first African-American to play baseball for the American League
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- Dave Drake - also called "Dave the Potter" - Edgefield craftsman who made giant jugs and containers and inscribed them with his own poetry ... today these pots sell for $40,000-$50,000
- Hattie Logan Duckett - social worker
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- Jesse Lewis Jackson - minister, political leader - not Louis
- Mary Jackson - sweetgrass basketmaker
- Ozie Jackson, Sr. - business owner
- Dr. Sara Dunlap Jackson - federal archivist
- Zelma Jackson-Maine - Beaufort - Chair of the Washington State Commission on African American Affairs, National Association of Black Geologist and Geophysicist founding member, pioneer hydogeologist
- Bishop Frederick Calhoun James - bishop
- Gloria Schumpert James - entrepreneur, businesswoman
- Jarvis Brothers - Jubilee Gospel singers - Reginald, Ulysses, Rogers, Anthony, Donald
- Willie Jeffries - football coach
- Honorable Robert N. Jenkins, Sr.
- Johnnie Ruth Jenkins
- Isaac Samuel Leevy Johnson
- Mamie "Peanut" Johnson - only woman to pitch for Negro Major League
- Ralph Johnson - Private First Class - US Marines
- William H. Johnson - artist
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- Willie L. Johnson - police chief
- Etta Jones - jazz singer
- J. Arthur Jones - mathematician
- Ernest Everett Just - scientist
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- Anna May Manigault-Hurley
- Linda Martell - country-western singer
- Maxine Smith Martin - president/ceo, Trident Urban League, Inc.
- Joshua W. Martin III - jurist, corporate executive
- Cassandra Maxwell
- Benjamin Elijah Mays - teacher, Civil Rights leader - president of Morehouse College, dean of Howard University's School of Religion, and first black president of Atlanta's school board
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- James T. McCain - educator
- Catherine McKee McCottry, M.D. - medical doctor
- Carrie Allen McCray - writer
- John Henry McCray - civil rights activist, journalist, editor and publisher of The Lighthouse and Informer
– Article - John Henry McCray recalls the fight for teacher salary equalization in South Carolina
- Johnnie McFadden, Ph.D. - first African-American full professor at USC
- Eddie McGirt - athlete/coach
- Nina Mae McKinney - actress
- James T. "J.T." McLawhorn, Jr.
- Ronald Ervin McNair - astronaut, physicist
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- Earl Matthew Middleton - business entrepreneur
- Listervelt Middleton - journalist
- Dr. Kelly Miller - newspaper columnist and teacher
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- Janie L. Mines - military, business, and youth leader
- Frieda Mitchell - director, United Communities for Child Development
- Mark and Sandra Myers - promoters of African-American cowboy culture
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