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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.
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“B” is for Bethune, Mary McLeod (1875-1955). Educator, social activist, government official.
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“M” is for McKaine, Osceola Enoch (1892-1955). Civil rights activist. In 1944, McKaine was the Progressive Democratic Party’s candidate for U.S. Senate—the first time since Reconstruction that a Black Carolinians had run for statewide office.
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“M” is for McKaine, Osceola Enoch (1892-1955). Civil rights activist. In 1944, McKaine was the Progressive Democratic Party’s candidate for U.S. Senate—the first time since Reconstruction that a Black Carolinians had run for statewide office.
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“M” is for McCray, John Henry (1910-1987). Journalist, civil rights activist.
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“M” is for McCray, John Henry (1910-1987). Journalist, civil rights activist.
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Acclaimed civil rights photographer Cecil Williams, founder of the Cecil Williams South Carolina Civil Rights Museum talks with us this this time, along with Jannie Harriot, the museum’s Executive Director. Cecil began photographing the events and people of the Civil Rights era in the early 1950s and continued through the 1970s, eventually amassing nearly a million images.