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Tag: Segregation

Posted inOpinions

Fordham: The story of South Carolina’s first segregation fight

by Damon L. Fordham August 14, 2022August 12, 2022
Posted inGuest Columnist, News

If Charleston doesn’t get real about social diversity it’s going to feel a world of pain

by Shani Gilchrist September 21, 2016
Posted inFeatures, News

The Green Book’s guide to Charleston under Jim Crow

by Dustin Waters June 1, 2016
Posted inArts+Movies, Culture Shock

Author of a Civil Rights-era school integration book speaks at Blue Bicycle

by Staff Reports August 27, 2015October 11, 2021
Posted inFeatures, News

Fifty years ago this week, Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law

by Will Moredock July 2, 2014
Posted inFeatures, News

S.C. to end segregation of HIV-positive prisoners

by Paul Bowers July 11, 2013
Posted inNews, Will Moredock

There is a lesson here for those brave enough to learn it

by Will Moredock May 18, 2011

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