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“R” is for Robinson, Bernice Violanthe (1914-1994). Educator, civil rights activist. The workshops that Bernice Violanthe Robinson created helped transform the political and economic status of thousands of disenfranchised Blacks in the American South.
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“R” is for Robinson, Bernice Violanthe (1914-1994). Educator, civil rights activist. The workshops that Bernice Violanthe Robinson created helped transform the political and economic status of thousands of disenfranchised Blacks in the American South.
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“H” is for Hinton, James Miles (1891-1970). Clergyman, businessman, civil rights leader.
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“H” is for Hinton, James Miles (1891-1970). Clergyman, businessman, civil rights leader.
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“H” is for Hines, John Elbridge (1910-1997). Clergyman, civil rights activist.
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“H” is for Hines, John Elbridge (1910-1997). Clergyman, civil rights activist.
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“P” is for Pickens, William (1881-1954). Educator, author, civil rights advocate.
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“P” is for Pickens, William (1881-1954). Educator, author, civil rights advocate.
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This week we talk with Claudia Smith Brinson about her new book, Injustice in Focus: The Civil Rights Photography of Cecil Williams (2023, USC Press). Claudia's rich research, interviews, and prose, offer a firsthand account of South Carolina's fight for civil rights and tells the story of Cecil Williams's life behind the camera. The book also features eighty of William’s photographs.Cecil Williams is one of the few Southern Black photojournalists of the civil rights movement. Born and raised in Orangeburg, South Carolina, Williams worked at the center of emerging twentieth-century civil rights activism in the state, and his assignments often exposed him to violence perpetrated by White law officials and ordinary citizens. Williams's story is the story of the civil rights era.
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“B” is for Bethune, Mary McLeod (1875-1955). Educator, social activist, government official.