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“R” is for Robert, Henry Martyn (1837-1923). Engineer, author.

“P” is for Pickens, William (1881-1954). Educator, author, civil rights advocate.

“C” is for Charleston, Siege of (April-May 1780). The siege of Charleston marked the commencement of major British operations in the South during the Revolutionary War.

“W” is for Wilkinson, Robert Shaw (1865-1932). College president. During the two decades that Wilkinson led the SC State, the college made the transition from essentially a primary and secondary school to a genuine college.

“M” is for McLaurin, John Lowndes (1860-1934). Congressman, U.S. senator.

“M” is for McKissick, James Rion (1884-1944). Journalist, educator, university president.

“B” is for Big Apple. This dance was born in the mid-1930s in a Black nightclub operated by a man named Fat Sam on Park Street in downtown Columbia, in what was once the House of Peace Synagogue.

“C” is for Charlesfort. A mid-sixteenth French outpost in Port Royal Sound, Charlesfort was the first French settlement in the present-day United States.

“C” is for Charleston (Charleston County; 2020 population 150,903). Charleston was the first permanent European settlement in Carolina, its first seat of government, and the most important city in the southern United States well into the nineteenth century.

Mike Switzer interviews Benjamin Means, the John T. Campbell Chair in Business and Professional Ethics and director of the Family and Small Business Program at the Joseph F. Rice School of Law at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, S.C.