
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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“W” is for Women's clubs. The South Carolina women's club movement was a powerful force for social change.
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“W” is for Wofford, Kate Vixon (1894-1954). Educator. The author of two books, Kate Vixon Wofford was nationally renowned for her expertise in rural education.
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“S” is for Slave codes. South Carolina’s earliest formal code of law regarding enslaved persons (1690) borrowed heavily from statutes governing slavery on Barbados.
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“S” is for Slave Badges. Slave badges served as the physical proof required to demonstrate the legal status of enslaved persons hired out by their masters.
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“S” is for 6-0-1 Law (1924). The 6-0-1 Law, passed in March 1924, guaranteed at least a seven-month school term for all White children.
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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.