Despite its significance to race relations and the Civil Rights Movement, South Carolina was the last state in the South to have its own Civil Rights museum. The absence was particularly glaring ...

In response to the Mother Emanual AME shooting in Charleston, SC, lawmakers and protestors rallied to bring down the ...

Thursday marks a decade since the Confederate flag that flew over the grounds of the South Carolina State House was permanently lowered. The decision came following a racially-motivated mass shooting ...

ELLOREE 21: Teachers ‘changed the course of history’in South Carolina’s civil rights movement. By RICHARD REID, T&D Correspondent Feb 2, 2014 Feb 2, 2014 Updated May 19, 2015; 0; This ...

South Carolina clears civil rights sit-in protesters’ records after 60 years. ... marks a moment of justice and recognition for the sacrifices made during the Civil Rights Movement.

Civil rights activists in the state are teaming up to petition the U.S. Supreme Court to rename the case after 70 years, The Post and Courier reports. Their goal is for the court to replace Brown v.

South Carolina civil rights photographer Cecil Williams sits in front of some of the displays he created for his museum, the only civil rights museum in the state, on Dec. 12, 2023, in Orangeburg ...

The University of South Carolina and its Center for Civil Rights History and Research are receiving $3.4 million from the National Park Service to share this legacy.

South Carolina will soon expand its only civil rights museum, thanks to photographer Cecil Williams, who currently showcases years of work in his converted house. From sit-ins to prayer protests ...

A longtime leader in the South Carolina NAACP at the local and state level has died. Dr. Lonnie Randolph Jr. was the president of the Columbia branch of the NAACP for 20 years and was tapped to ...

The South Carolina Department of Education faces a civil rights lawsuit challenging its restrictions on how race and sex are taught in the state’s K-12 schools.

Associated Press South Carolina civil-rights leaders want Supreme Court to rename 1954 case Brown v. Board of Education Briggs v. Elliott, a South Carolina case, said to have predated the famous ...