When you encounter the phrase “civil rights movement,” what comes to mind? For many people, it’s the 1960s. The sit-ins, the fire hoses, the marches and voter registration drives.

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 ...

Take a virtual tour of South Carolina’s only civil rights museum. ... But over time, he perceived a disheartening drift in the civil rights movement. “In the mid-1970s and ’80s,” he says, ...

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 ...

South Carolina Community Leaders on Civil Rights Today As the nation observes the birthday of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., South Carolina's communities of color are considering their progress ...

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 movement veterans and U.S. Reps. Jim Clyburn and John Lewis are leading more than two dozen members of Congress on a three-day history and race relations tour of South Carolina ...

Student advocacy and South Carolina's role in the civil rights movement are overlooked, a civil rights photographer said. I.P. Stanback Museum and Planetarium hosted a virtual conversation with ...

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.

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.