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SC African American History Calendar: June Honoree - Doris Greene
Doris Glymph Greene was born in Columbia, S.C. She graduated in 1959 from Booker T. Washington High School, the first black high school in Richland County...
SC African American History Calendar: February Honoree - Thomas Barnwell
Thomas C. Barnwell, Jr. was born on Hilton Head Island in 1935 and traces his family back to slavery in Beaufort County. Born to Thomas S. Barnwell, Sr. and Hannah White Barnwell, he grew up with an...
SC African American History Calendar 2023: January Honoree - Brook Benton
Singer/songwriter Brook Benton was born Benjamin Franklin Peay in 1931 in Camden, S.C. As a young person, he enjoyed gospel music, wrote songs, and sang in a Methodist church choir in Lugoff where his...
SC African American History Calendar: December Honoree - Sergeant Isaac Woodard Jr.
Sergeant Isaac Woodard Jr. was born on March 8, 1919, in Fairfield County, South Carolina to Sarah Elizabeth Woodard and Isaac Woodard Sr. He was the fifth of nine children. At 23, Woodard enlisted in...
SC African American History Calendar: November Honoree - Arthur Stanley
Businessman and civil rights advocate Arthur “Man” Whitfield Stanley, Sr. was born in Darlington, S.C., on August 19, 1914, to Mrs. Martha Stanley Hobday and Mr. Willie Gandy. In 1941, he married...