South Carolina – African American History and 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 - by county - large Adobe Reader file
  – Casey - Goose Creek
  – Charleston Black Heritage - visitors guide
  – Greenville Cultural Exchange Center
  – Hamburg - includes info on Carpentersville community
  – Hewn-timber slave cabins - Florence - 1836
  – Mays House Museum - childhood home of Benjamin Mays
  – Old Slave Mart Museum - Charleston
  – Oyotunji Village - Sheldon - African village
  – 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
  – Black Charlestonians in the 1920s
  – Slave relics
  

• 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
  
• Bin Yah: There's No Place Like Home - documentary on the potential loss of Mt Pleasant's historic African-American communities to urban sprawl
  
• 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

SC Black Schools, Colleges, Libraries

• Penn Center - St Helena Island
  
• Randall Branch Baptist School for the Colored - Aiken
  
• Schofield Normal and Industrial School - Aiken
  
  
• Historically black colleges, universities
• Avery Research Center - College of Charleston
  
• Charles H. Houston Center for the Study of the Black Experience in Education - Clemson University - examines and addresses educational issues that impact African-Americans in SC and throughout US
  
  
• Library Services for SC Blacks - historical documents, photographs
  

SC African-American Organizations

• Historically black churches
• More South Carolina organizations

Related SC African-American Resources

• African American Voices - Digital History - great online text book
  
• Distribution of SC Black Population by County - 1999 - map and county rankings
  
• Family Tyes SC - promoting Gullah culture
  
• Lest We Forget - African-Americans in the military from the Revolution to Vietnam
  
• The Lowcountry Word - community newspaper
  
• SCGenWeb's African American Research