Dem. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse was blasted on social media over a post where he compared Dem. Sen. Alex Padilla's press ...

Elliott. Briggs’ stance cranked up the engines in the civil rights movement for South Carolina and the nation. For some reason, the Briggs case was coupled with other cases around the nation ...

The South Carolina Civil Rights Museum will host its inaugural Juneteenth Golf Tournament in Orangeburg later this month. South Carolina State University is closely tied to both the Museum and the ...

1960s Civil Rights Protesters Who ... happened. The movement started in Greensboro, North Carolina, and spread through the South in the early 1960s. Several Southern cities have held similar ...

South Carolina civil rights legend John Alexander ... at the time we did this that our actions would re-ignite the civil rights movement across the South,” Gaines said in 2011.

The South Carolina Department of Education faces a civil rights lawsuit challenging its restrictions on how race and sex are ...

These foot soldiers in the Civil Rights Movement are the focus of Elaine ... Clark, whose teacher’s pension had been canceled by the state of South Carolina in the 1950s, was awarded the state ...

FLORENCE, S.C. (AP) — A jury has found a sheriff in South Carolina not guilty of violating a jail inmate’s civil rights when he ordered a deputy to shock the man several times with a Taser.