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When Rob Edwards started telling people he was writing a comic book about South Carolina Civil War hero Robert Smalls, he’d ...
After the Civil War, conservatives used terrorism, cold-blooded murder, and economic coercion to fight the new state ...
Though it enters Sunday’s NCAA Tournament championship game against UConn as an underdog, South Carolina has been the standard in women’s college basketball over the past several years ...
The Convention is in secret session discussing the new Constitution, which will doubtless be ratified on Wednesday by a large majority. CHARLESTON, Wednesday, April 3 -- P.M. The South Carolina ...
The Table Rock Fire had burned more than 11,400 acres as of Sunday morning. A massive wildfire burning for more than a week in South Carolina jumped the border Saturday and was spreading Sunday ...
The South Carolina Constitution provides two mechanisms for amending the state's constitution— a legislative process and a state constitutional convention. South Carolina requires a simple majority ...
The universal male suffrage was a hallmark of the 1868 South Carolina constitutional convention. Each state that had defected to the Confederacy had to create a new constitution for readmission.
PIERRE, S.D. (KELO) — An attempt to call a national convention to propose amendments to the United State Constitution is moving ahead in the South Dakota Legislature. The House State Affairs ...
Smalls would see a new South Carolina constitution in 1895 wipe out African Americans’ right to vote in a convention led by “Pitchfork” Ben Tillman. Tillman was a governor and U.S. senator ...
An excerpt of a speech Smalls delivered during the 1895 South Carolina Constitutional Convention will be inscribed on one side of the statue’s base. It reads: “My race needs no special defense ...