Orangeburg,also known as The Burg,is the principal city in and the county seat of Orangeburg County,South Carolina,United States. The population of the city was 13,964 according to the 2020 census. The city is located 37 miles southeast of Columbia,on the north fork of the Edisto River.
James Enos Clyburn is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for South Carolina's 6th congressional district. First elected in 1992,Clyburn represents a congressional district that includes most of the majority-black precincts in and around Columbia and Charleston,as well as most of the majority-black areas outside Beaufort and nearly all of South Carolina's share of the Black Belt. Since Joe Cunningham's departure in 2021,Clyburn has been the only Democrat in South Carolina's congressional delegation and as well as the dean of this delegation since 2011 after fellow Democrat John Spratt lost re-election.
Modjeska Monteith Simkins was an important leader of African-American public health reform,social reform and the Civil Rights Movement in South Carolina.
The Orangeburg Massacre was a shooting of student protesters that took place on February 8,1968,on the campus of South Carolina State College in Orangeburg,South Carolina,United States. Nine highway patrolmen and one city police officer opened fire on a crowd of African American students,killing three and injuring twenty-eight. The shootings were the culmination of a series of protests against racial segregation at a local bowling alley,marking the first instance of police killing student protestors at an American university.
Robert Evander McNair Sr. was the 108th governor of South Carolina,a Democrat,who served from 1965 to 1971.
William Jennings Bryan Dorn was a United States politician from South Carolina who represented the western part of the state in the United States House of Representatives from 1947 to 1949 and from 1951 to 1975 as a Democrat.
Kay Patterson was an American politician who was a Democratic member of the South Carolina Senate,representing the 19th District from 1985 to his retirement in 2008. He was previously a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1975 through 1985.
Tom Clements is an American environmental activist and politician from South Carolina. Clements was the Green Party's nominee in the 2010 United States Senate election in South Carolina. Clements received more than 9% of the vote. He is the Southeastern Nuclear Campaign Coordinator for the US branch of Friends of the Earth in Columbia,South Carolina. Clements worked as the campaign manager for Democratic Congressman Doug Barnard,Jr. in the 1980s and as well as a long environmental activist with Greenpeace and the Nuclear Control Institute.
Gloria Blackwell,also known as Gloria Rackley,was an African-American civil rights activist and educator. She was at the center of the Civil Rights Movement in Orangeburg,South Carolina during the 1960s,attracting some national attention and a visit by Dr. Martin Luther King of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Her activities were widely covered by the local press.
Annie B. Martin was an American pioneer of the labor movement and the civil rights movement. A South Carolina native,Martin participated in many marches in Washington,D.C.,was appointed New York state assistant commissioner of labor under three governors,served sixteen terms as president of the New York City branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People,and sat on that association's national board of directors for nineteen years.
Franklin v. South Carolina,218 U.S. 161 (1910) appealed the conviction of Pink Franklin for the murder of South Carolina Constable Henry H. Valentine in 1907. Franklin was a sharecropper who wished to leave his employer although his employer had advanced Franklin wages under a contract based on the so-called "peonage laws". A warrant was obtained and when Valentine came to the house,a shootout occurred,killing Valentine and injuring Franklin,his wife Patsy,and another constable who was there. The defense included claims that Franklin acted in self-defense and that the peonage laws were unjust. In appeal,the defense claimed that the make-up of the jury,all white based on the requirement that the jury be based on those who were eligible to vote,was based on unconstitutional racism in election laws stemming from the 1895 South Carolina constitution. Franklin's conviction was upheld in all appeals,including the appeal before the United States Supreme Court heard in April 1910.
Cecil J. Williams is an American photographer,publisher,author and inventor who is best known for his photographs documenting the civil rights movement in South Carolina.
Jaime R. Harrison is an American lawyer and politician who is the chair of the Democratic National Committee. He was chair of the South Carolina Democratic Party from 2013 to 2017. Harrison ran against Senator Lindsey Graham in the 2020 United States Senate election in South Carolina,he was defeated by ten points.
The 1882 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was held on November 7.
The 1883 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was held on November 6.
Prior to the civil rights movement in South Carolina,African Americans in the state had very few political rights. South Carolina briefly had a majority-black government during the Reconstruction era after the Civil War,but with the 1876 inauguration of Governor Wade Hampton III,a Democrat who supported the disenfranchisement of blacks,African Americans in South Carolina struggled to exercise their rights. Poll taxes,literacy tests,and intimidation kept African Americans from voting,and it was virtually impossible for someone to challenge the Democratic Party,which ran unopposed in most state elections for decades. By 1940,the voter registration provisions written into the 1895 constitution effectively limited African-American voters to 3,000—only 0.8 percent of those of voting age in the state.
The Dr. Cyril O. Spann Medical Office,located in Columbia,South Carolina,served African-American patients during de jure and de facto racial segregation in the United States. Built in 1963,it was added to United States National Register of Historic Places on May 20,2019.
Sadye L. Logan is a social work academic who is the I. DeQuincey Newman Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Social Work at the University of South Carolina.
Clifton B. Newman is an American attorney and former at-large judge of the South Carolina Circuit Court. He served as a judge since his election by the state's general assembly in 2000. In 2021,he was reelected to a final fourth term and retired in December 2023. In his role as a circuit court judge he presided over several high-profile trials,including the trials of Michael Slager,Nathaniel Rowland,Mikal Mahdi,and Alex Murdaugh. He currently works for JAMS,a private arbitration association.
