"A" is for Adams, Edward Clarkson Leverett [1876-1946]

"A" is for Adams, Edward Clarkson Leverett [1876-1946]. Physician, author. Born in Richland County, Adams served in World War I. He returned to Columbia in 1918 where he briefly practiced medicine. In the 1920s he retired to his plantation on the Bluff Road and devoted the remainder of his life to farming and writing. His first book, Congaree Sketches, was a stunning success. Adams was able to present the black dialect with great precision, and also, as a white author, unhesitatingly portrayed the hardships of racial prejudice in the 1920s and 1930s. The chairperson of the NAACP praised Adams’ two books for their insights into the mind of African Americans. Edward Clarkson Leverett Adams's books and stories about the black inhabitants of lower Richland County brought him both regional and national acclaim.