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SC African American History Calendar: December Honoree - Freddie Stowers
Freddie Stowers was born in 1896 in Sandy Springs, S.C. Before being drafted, he worked as a farmhand. He was married to Pearl, and they had a daughter named...
SC African American History Calendar: August Honoree - Joseph Rainey
Joseph Rainey was born in Georgetown, S.C. in 1832 to Edward and Gracia Rainey. The family lived enslaved on a plantation until his father, a barber, secured their freedom when Rainey was 10 years old...
SC African American History Calendar: July Honoree - William Jenkins
William (Bill) Jenkins was born to Martha and Albert Jenkins in Mount Pleasant, S.C. He graduated from Laing High School and went on to continue his education at Morehouse College (B.A.), Georgetown...
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, where she was student council president and...
SC African American History Calendar: May Honoree - Rose Gibbs
Rose Delores Gibbs was born in 1946 in Moncks Corner, S.C., to Wash and Pauline Gibbs where she grew up with two brothers and three sisters. She attended high school in Camden, S.C. at Boylan Haven...