In continuation of the celebration Black history month, we are honor life + legacy of something black Civil rights Leaders and activists out South carolina.
Here are Key factors about important black figures from the Palmetto State, whose The legacy lives on today.
Septima Poinsette Clark | Courtesy of the Avery Research Center on African American History and Culture, College of Charleston, SC, USA
Mary Mcleod Bethune | Courtesy of the Avery Research Center on African American History and Culture, College of Charleston, SC, USA
- educator WHO has taught in schools in South Carolina + Georgia and established schools in Florida
- Started a small school for Black girls that would Bethune-Cookman University
- First black woman serve as College president
- Established Programs To end segregated education, improve health care for black children, and help women vote
- Eighth National President for National Association of Colored Women
- Created the National Council of Negresses
- President Roosevelt chooses them as that first black woman to head the Federal Council for Negro Affairs, a federal agency also known as the “Black Cabinet”
- The portrait hangs in the State House in Columbia
Bernice Stokes Robinson | Courtesy of the Avery Research Center on African American History and Culture, College of Charleston, SC, USA
- Educator involved with Voter registration drives
- Selected by Highlander + of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to build Voter registration workshops across the south
- Established Citizenship Schools to teach blacks how to read the constitution so they can register to vote (required at this time due to discriminatory laws)
- First teacher for the Citizenship Schools on Johns Island
- Along with Esau Jenkins + The seventh Clark, credited with help two million disenfranchised citizens deserve the right to vote
- First black woman for the run House of Representatives
Modjeska Monteith Simkins | Courtesy of the Avery Research Center on African American History and Culture, College of Charleston, SC, USA
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