
South Carolina from A to Z
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From Hilton Head to Caesars Head, and from the Lords Proprietors to Hootie and the Blowfish, historian Walter Edgar mines the riches of the South Carolina Encyclopedia to bring you South Carolina from A to Z.
South Carolina from A to Z is a production of South Carolina Public Radio in partnership with the University of South Carolina Press and SC Humanities.
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“R” is for Ravenel, Edmund (1797-1871). Physician, naturalist.
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“O” is for O’Neall, John Belton (1793-1863). Jurist, author, social reformer, entrepreneur.
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“R” is for Rock Hill Movement. Following the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery and the 1960 lunch-counter sit-ins in Greensboro, African Americans in Rock Hill took the lead in energizing the civil rights movement in South Carolina.
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“P” is for Pinckney, Eliza Lucas (ca. 1722-1793). Planter, matriarch.
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“P” is for Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth (1746-1825). Soldier, statesman, diplomat.
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“M” is for Mennonites. The Mennonites of South Carolina are a Protestant group descended from the Anabaptists of the Reformation.
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“L” is for Lowndes, Rawlins (1721-1800). Jurist, governor.