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2020 SOUTH CAROLINA African American History CALENDAR PRESENTED BY The South Carolina Department of Education
Rich in African American History from the Upstate to the Lowcountry
Dear Students, Educators, and Friends,
The 2020 South Carolina African American History Calendar is proudly presented to you by the
South Carolina Department of Education and our dedicated community partners.
For thirty-one years, the Calendar has featured exceptional individuals who have had a
remarkable impact on the state of South Carolina and our beloved United States of America.
The honorees contributions to society are used by educators from across our state to facilitate
and expand African American history into student learning.
The 2020 Calendar cover spotlights Penn Center, a historical institution “tucked in the heart
of the South Carolina Sea Islands.” Formerly known as Penn School, the St. Helena Island site
served as one of our country’s first educational institutions for freed slaves. The significance of
its educational and cultural impact continues today as thousands of citizens and leaders have
been taught, inspired, and sent forth to transform the Lowcountry, South Carolina, our nation,
and world.
The 2020 Calendar honorees’ commitment to improving the lives of others through education,
medicine, athletics, engineering, and public service are remarkable. Each time you turn the
page to the next month, you will be reminded of the tremendous legacy they have left to inspire
future generations.
Remembering their contributions, together, we must continue to work to improve the quality of
life for all South Carolinians.
Sincerely,
Molly M. Spearman
State Superintendent of Education
2020
SOUTH CAROLINA
African
American
History
A native of Chester, S.C., Dr. Vivian Ayers Fields.” This method of education was
Allen is a poet, cultural activist, and recommended to the nation as the
American classicist. prototype of grassroots arts programming
CALENDAR by Nancy Hanks, who was then Director
A 1939 graduate of the historic Brainerd of the National Endowment of the Arts.
Institute in Chester, Dr. Ayers attended The program continued with funding in
Barber-Scotia College and Bennett College. Houston for nine consecutive years. Dr.
Dr. Ayers has also received Honorary Ayers was invited to serve as an advisor
Doctorate Degrees from Bennett College to the endowment as a member of The
and Wilberforce University. Associated Councils of the Arts.
Her literary career began in Houston, Texas Dr. Ayers is also the Founding Director of the
with the publication of “Spice of Dawns” Brainerd Institute Heritage. For more than
(1952), a collection of poems that was a decade, her Workshops in Open Fields
nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. “Hawk,” has been active on the Brainerd Institute
an allegory of freedom made analogous to campus in Chester. In addition to visual
space flight, followed and was published on arts education, the program also serves
July 11, 1957, just 11 weeks before the launch Chester residents and surrounding areas by
of Sputnik I. “Hawk” would later earn praise presenting Free Dance Days, with faculty
from the National Aeronautics and Space from the Debbie Allen Dance Academy,
Administration (NASA) at their Lyndon B. as well as a Summer Preschool Literacy
Johnson Space Center where enlarged Program.
reproductions of the writings are exhibited.
Dr. Ayers’ talents and interests also include
the research of world cultures. She studied
classical Greek at Rice University, Columbia
Vivian Ayers
University, and Princeton University. In
addition, she has studied and translated Allen
texts on Mayan culture and astronomy.
In 1973, while still living in Houston, Texas
and working with the Harris County
Community Association, she collaborated
with certified teachers to create her
signature program, “Workshops in Open
Penn Center
After Penn School closed, Penn Center invited the Southern Christian Leadership Conference led by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr. He is photographed here with the first Executive Director of Penn Center, Courtney P. Siceoff, his wife Elizabeth, and son John,
during one of Dr. King’s numerous visits to Penn Center between 1963-1968.
January
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
29 30 31 1 2 3 4
1863 - At Camp Saxton in Port
Royal, S.C., thousands of African
Americans gathered to celebrate
Emancipation Day on the very
day President Abraham Lincoln’s
Emancipation Proclamation went
into effect.
New Year’s Day
New Year’s Eve Kwanzaa Ends
5 6 7 8 9 10 11
1963 - In the wake of civil rights
protests and lawsuits, Governor
Ernest “Fritz” Hollings used his last
speech in office to acknowledge
2017 - Donald W. Beatty, a native that “the day of segregation
of Spartanburg, was sworn has passed” and called for the
in as Chief Justice of the S.C. integration process to be handled
Supreme Court. “with dignity.”
12 13 14 15 16 17 18
1927 - Actress Eartha Kitt was born
in North, S.C.
2000 - More than 46,000 rallied
1963 - Donald Russell was 1963 - The Fourth Circuit Court of at the state capitol in Columbia to
1944 - Boxer Joseph “Smoking inaugurated as Governor of S.C. Appeals ordered Clemson College protest the Confederate battle flag
Joe” Frazier was born in Beaufort. At the inaugural barbecue held to admit Harvey Gantt opening flying atop the statehouse dome.
He would later become an Olympic on the grounds of the Governor’s the door for him to become the Sponsors of the march included the
gold medalist and heavy- Mansion, over 100 black citizens first African American to enroll at NAACP, the Urban League, and the
weight champion. were in attendance. Clemson. AME Church.
19 20 21 22 23 24 25
Martin Luther
King Jr. Day
26 27 28 29 30 31 1
1961 - Students from Friendship
1986 - Astronaut Dr. Ronald E. Junior College and others went to
McNair, a native of Lake City, died jail after a sit-in at a segregated
in the tragic explosion of the space lunch counter in Rock Hill. The
shuttle Challenger. group, later known as the
Friendship Nine, gained nationwide
1963 - Harvey Gantt, a graduate attention with their “jail, no bail”
of Charleston’s Burke High School, strategy and remained in prison
arrived at Clemson College and for 30 days. Their convictions
enrolled as the school’s first African were later dismissed and declared
American student. “vacated, null and void” in 2015.
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American
History
Rear Admiral Reubin B. Bookert is a Bookert was promoted to the rank of Rear
native of Columbia, S.C. He graduated Admiral in 2002.
from C.A. Johnson High School in 1968
CALENDAR and North Carolina A&T State University In 2004 Bookert assumed duties as
with a B.S. degree. He also earned Commander of Amphibious Group Two in
degrees in National Security and Norfolk, VA. He commanded all Amphibious
Strategic Studies from the Naval War Forces on the East Coast. His command
College and a M.S. in Management included 27 warships, 38 shore commands
from Salve Regina University in Newport, and 15,000 sailors and Marines. He has
R.I. He commissioned in to the United been awarded numerous decorations,
States Navy in February of 1975. including three Legion of Merit Medals,
the Defense Meritorious Service Medal,
Rear Admiral Bookert reported to his three Meritorious Service Medals, the Navy
first fleet assignment in March of 1976 Expeditionary Medal, the Global War on
as Communications Officer aboard the Terrorism Medal, and the Humanitarian
U.S.S. Truett. Subsequent sea tours include Service Medal among others. His last
Communications Officer in Destroyer assignment was serving as the Commander
Squadron Twenty-Four, Weapons Officer of Maritime Forces, which consisted of 45
in U.S.S. Joseph Hewes, Operations multinational warships that provided relief
Officer in U.S.S. La Moure County and for the victims of Hurricane Katrina in New
Executive Officer aboard the U.S.S. Blakely. Orleans, La.
His command-at-sea tours include:
Commanding Officer, U.S.S. La Moure He served on the Board of Directors for the
County and Commanding Officer of the Tidewater Virginia Area Urban League. He
amphibious assault ship, U.S.S. Kearsarge. is a member of Richland School District One
Ashore Bookert served at the Navy
Hall of Fame, the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity,
Inc., and the Spann Watson Chapter of
Reubin Bookert
Recruiting District in Atlanta, Ga. and at Tuskegee Airmen, Inc. He retired from the
Special Operations Command, MacDill Navy in 2006.
Air Force Base in Fla. In July 1995, Bookert
assumed duties as Special Assistant to Admiral Bookert and his wife Marvis reside
the Chief of Naval Personnel and Director, in Blythewood, S.C. They have two sons,
Professional Relationship Division. In 1996, Brian and Russell (wife, Samantha) and a
he was selected as Special Assistant granddaughter, Hannah. He is currently
to the Chief of Naval Operations. In employed by the Department of Veterans
2001, he served as Deputy Director of Affairs as the Chief of Support Services in
Expeditionary Warfare in the Pentagon. the Columbia Regional office.
Penn Center
This photo, taken in 1906, is of Miss Norwell and her class working on a history lesson about President Abraham Lincoln. With full
support from President Lincoln, Beaufort County, home of Penn Center, became the birthplace of Reconstruction as it was one of
the first places in the United States where formerly enslaved people could begin integrating themselves into free society.
February BLACK HISTORY MONTH
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
26 27 28 29 30 31 1 1834 - Henry McNeal Turner,
AME minister and the first
African American appointed by
President Lincoln as a chaplain in
the U.S. Army in 1863, was born in
Hannah Circuit near Newberry, S.C.
1870 - Jonathan Jasper Wright,
a state senator from Beaufort
County, was elected as an
Associate Justice of the S.C.
Supreme Court, becoming its first
African American member.
2 3 4 5 6 7 8
1961 - The South Carolina Council 1968 - During demonstrations
on Human Relations (SCCHR) protesting segregation at a local
Student Council hosted its bowling alley in Orangeburg, S.C.
first student workshop at Allen Highway Patrolmen opened fire
University. The workshop entitled on the campus of South Carolina
“The Role of the Student in State College, killing three students
Achieving Human Rights” included and wounding dozens of others.
a keynote address from veteran 1967 - Actor, comedian, and author The event became known as the
Groundhog Day organizer Ella Baker. Chris Rock was born in Andrews, S.C. “Orangeburg Massacre.”
9 10 11 12 1909 - Georgetown, S.C. native
Dr. William A. Sinclair, born
13 14 15
enslaved in 1858 and studied at the
University of South Carolina, helped
create the NAACP. 1874 - Charlotta Amanda Bass,
a newspaper editor and the
1960 - Days after protests in first African American woman
Greensboro, N.C., the first sit-ins in nominated for the office of Vice
S.C. began in Rock Hill when nearly President in 1952 as a candidate of
100 students sit-in at Woolworth’s the Progressive Party, was born in
and McCrory’s. Sumter, S.C.
Lincoln’s Birthday Valentine’s Day
16 17 18 19 20 21 22
1961 - Students were arrested after 1898 - Frazier Baker, a Republican
attempting to integrate a skating appointed African American post-
rink in Greenville’s Cleveland Park. 1917 - Acclaimed writer and civil master of Lake City, S.C., and his
In a lawsuit named Walker v. rights organizer James Weldon two-year old daughter were lynched
Shaw, the students were defended Johnson informed the national in an attack by a white mob. Other
Washington’s by NAACP attorneys Donald J. headquarters of the NAACP that members of the Baker family were
Sampson, Matthew J. Perry, and new branches were established in severely injured. The known
Birthday Lincoln C. Jenkins. Charleston and Columbia. assailants were never convicted.
23 24 25 1963 - In the ruling Edwards
26 27 28 29
v. South Carolina, the U.S. Supreme
Court declared that the State may
not “make criminal the peaceful
expression of unpopular views.” 1956 -Clarence Mitchell, the
The lawsuit was filed after 187 National Director of the NAACP
student demonstrators were and a Baptist minister Rev. Horace
arrested following protests against Sharper, were arrested in Florence
segregation on the grounds of the when they enter a “white’s only”
S.C. State House. door at the local train station.
Charges against the two leaders
Mardi Gras Ash Wednesday were later dismissed. Leap Day
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African
American
History
Mignon L. Clyburn became the first woman Clyburn most recently held a fellowship at
head of the Federal Communications the Open Society Foundation where she
Commission (FCC) when she was appointed continued the push for the elimination
CALENDAR Acting Chair by President Barack Obama of predatory rates for prison telephone
in May 2013. She was also the first African services. She is currently the principal at MLC
American woman nominated to the Strategies, LLC.
commission. She served on the FCC for
nearly nine years. For well over two decades, Clyburn has been
actively involved in a myriad of community
From July 2009 until June 2018, organizations. Prior to her appointment
Commissioner Clyburn was committed to at the FCC, Clyburn served on the South
narrowing persistent digital, communication, Carolina State Energy Advisory Council,
and opportunity divides that challenge the Trident Technical College Foundation,
rural, Native, African American, Latino the South Carolina Cancer Center Board,
and low wealth communities. Specifically, the Columbia College Board of Visitors,
she pushed for the modernization of the Palmetto Project Board (as secretary/
the agency’s Lifeline Program, which treasurer), chair of the YWCA of Greater
helps defray the cost of voice and Charleston and on the boards of Reid House
broadband services for low-income of Christian Service, Edventure Children’s
consumers, championed diversity in Museum, Trident Urban League, and
media ownership, initiated reforms in the the Trident United Way. She also is a Life
egregious Inmate Calling Services regime, Member of the NAACP, a member of The
emphasized diversity and inclusion in STEM Links, Inc. and the SC Advisory Council of the
opportunities, and was a strong advocate U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, and was
for preserving a free and open internet, or past president of the Charleston County
net neutrality. Democratic Women and Black Women
Entrepreneurs. Mignon Clyburn
Previously, Clyburn served 11 years on the
South Carolina Public Service Commission, Clyburn graduated from W.J. Keenan High
including two as its chair. For 14 years, she School in Columbia and holds a B.S. in
was the publisher and general manager banking, finance, and economics from the
of the Coastal Times, a family founded, University of South Carolina. She is the oldest
Charleston-based weekly newspaper that daughter of James and Emily England
focuses on issues affecting the African Clyburn.
American community.
Penn Center
Penn School Founder, Laura M. Towne, pictured with her favorite scholars, Dick, Maria, and Amoretta in February of 1866. The
Founders, Laura Towne and Ellen Murray, wrote extensively within the letters and journals about their experiences at Penn School
and referred to all students as scholars.
March
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 2 1961 - NAACP leaders and
3 4 5 6 7
African American students from
across the state met at Zion 1970 - Angry white residents 1961 - Two NAACP college
Baptist Church and walked to the in Lamar, who opposed school 1960 - Nearly seventy students in leaders, Lennie Glover and David
State House grounds. After singing integration, attacked three buses Florence continued protests from a Carter, were on a routine check
1948 - Denmark Trade School religious songs and marching carrying African American students prior day when they marched from of a sit-in at Woolworth’s in
(later technical college) began around the capitol, 187 persons to newly desegregated schools Trinity Baptist Church to a local downtown Columbia when Glover
operation. were arrested for a breach of in Darlington County. After being Kress store and demanded service was stabbed by an unknown
peace. In 1963, the U.S. Supreme pummeled with ax handles, at a lunch counter. When the assailant. Severely wounded, 1960 - The South Carolina Council
1960 - African American students Court overturned the convictions chains, and rocks, the buses were students resumed their peaceful Glover eventually recovered on Human Relations (SCCHR)
in Greenville staged a peaceful sit- of those arrested in a landmark overturned. Eventually, state police protests, 48 people were arrested and continued participating in announced the group’s support of
in at a segregated library. ruling, Edwards v. South Carolina. dispersed the crowd with tear gas. for “parading without a permit.” demonstrations. student-led sit-ins across the state.
8 9 10 11 12 1974 – After Richland
13 14
County school officials shared news 1960 - Allen University student
about the closing of Booker T. Simon Bouie and Benedict College
Washington High School, students, student Talmadge Neal took seats
faculty, and alumni denounced in a booth at the Eckerd’s Drug
plans to sell the legendary school Store in downtown Columbia and
to the University of South Carolina. waited to be served. Bouie and
In a speech before the local school Neal were charged with criminal
board, faculty member Frankie B. trespass and convicted. Their
Daylight Savings Outten described her alma mater convictions were overturned in
a landmark U.S. Supreme Court
as the “Great Mother of the Black
Time Begins Community.” decision in June 1964.
15 16 17 18 19 20 1969 - More than four
hundred African American
21
1960 - During demonstrations hospital workers, most of them 1909 - Booker T. Washington, the
protesting racial segregation female, began a strike against famed leader of Tuskegee Institute
in Orangeburg, more than one the all-white administrations of and the Negro Business League
thousand students from Claflin the Medical College Hospital concluded a seven-day tour of
University and South Carolina and Charleston County Hospital S.C. Prominent African American
State College were water hosed for better wages and working leaders joined him for visits to
and tear gassed by police during conditions. The striking workers Greenville, Gaffney, Anderson,
demonstrations. Three hundred attracted support from national Rock Hill, Winnsboro, Camden,
and eighty students were jailed. civil rights leaders, including Ralph Columbia, Florence, Sumter,
The protest was a lead story in the and Juanita Abernathy, Coretta Orangeburg, Denmark, and
New York Times. St. Patrick’s Day Spring Begins Scott King, and Andrew Young. Charleston.
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
1961 - In response to the stabbing
of Lennie Glover, African American
students initiated a boycott of
Main St. businesses in Columbia.
The “Easter Lennie Glover No
Buying Campaign” featured daily
picketing and sit-ins.
29 30 31 1919 - Walter F. White, 1 2 3 4
assistant secretary from the
NAACP’s New York City office,
spoke at Aiken’s Friendship Baptist
Church. The Aiken branch of the
NAACP was formed one year
earlier.
1967 - Ordie P. Taylor Jr., Anthony
M. Hurley, and Mable B. Ashe
applied for a charter of incorp-
oration for the newly organized
Columbia Urban League, Inc.
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Judge Richard E. Fields was born and elections in Charleston for a decade.
raised in Charleston, S.C. He attended high Judge Fields also conducted legal work on
school at the Avery Institute, graduated behalf of the National Association for the
CALENDAR from West Virginia State College in 1944, Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
and earned his law degree in 1947 from
the Howard University School of Law. He In 1952, he was elected to the Board of
was one of the first African Americans to Trustees of Claflin College in Orangeburg.
open a law office in Charleston since the He also represented the university as
early 1900s. Judge Fields’ private and its attorney and served on many of its
professional endeavors have included committees during his almost fifty years
many religious, civic, and political activities, on the board. In 1992, a scholarship was
acquiring leadership positions in each area. established in his name to provide financial
assistance to students of merit.
When Judge Fields returned to Charleston
after law school, he resumed his Judge Fields’ leadership in the South
membership at the historic Centenary Carolina legal community continued when
Methodist Church. He was elected treasurer he was selected as a Municipal Judge for
of that congregation around 1950 and the City of Charleston in 1969. He served in
retains that position to this date. Judge that position until becoming a Family Court
Fields served as the church’s delegate to judge in 1975. In 1980, Judge Fields was
the South Carolina Annual Conference for elected as a judge of the Circuit Court of
more than 50 years and was a member of South Carolina until his retirement in 1992.
the Merger Committee in South Carolina His portrait hangs on the fourth floor of the
when the white and black conferences of Charleston County Judicial Center and in
the United Methodist Church merged in the one of the United States Post Offices in
late 1960s and early 1970s. Charleston which is officially named after
him.
Richard Fields
In 1950, along with several other
black citizens, Judge Fields formed Judge Fields and his wife, the late Myrtle
the Charleston County Political Action T. Evans, have two children, Mary Diane
Committee (PAC) for the purpose of Fields-Reed and Richard E. Fields Jr.
organizing black voters and educating
them in the power of the ballot, and for
the additional purpose of electing blacks
to political office. This group, through its
screening committee, was able to influence
Penn Center
Linnie Lumpkin-Blanton takes her overcrowded first grade sewing class of beginners to the great outdoors. Periodically, students
and teachers would enjoy learning activities outdoors, and the trees would serve as canopies for classrooms.April
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
29 30 31 1 2 3 4
1949-Allen University sponsored
a performance by famed vocalist
Marian Anderson at Columbia’s
Township Auditorium.
5 6 7 8 9 10 11
1983 - Attorneys Luther J. Battiste,
III and E. W. Cromartie, II were 1877 - Following the Hayes-Tilden
sworn in as the first African Compromise, federal troops
Americans on the Columbia City were removed from S.C., setting
Council since the the stage for the collapse of the
Reconstruction era. state’s Reconstruction government
and the resurgence of white
Palm Sunday World Health Day Passover Begins Good Friday Democratic leadership.
12 13 14 15 16 17 18
1868 - A new S.C. constitution, 1963 - After being denied
shaped by African American access to Columbia’s Township 1963 - The first rounds of the
leaders, is adopted. The 1868 Auditorium, Nation of Islam Brown v. South Carolina Forestry
constitution required integrated minister Malcolm X spoke at a Commission lawsuit began on this
education and contained a strong small mosque in Columbia. The day. This case, brought by African
bill of rights section that protected Muslim leader bitterly denounced Americans, claimed they were
Thomas Jefferson’s citizens of all races. Columbia’s political leaders and turned away from two white state
African American supporters of parks of the SC State Park System
Easter Birthday Tax Day Passover Ends integration. in 1960 and 1961.
19 20 21 22 23 24 25
1906 - The Palmetto
Medical Association, comprised
of African American physicians,
dentists, and pharmacists,
gathered in Camden to mark its
10th Anniversary.
2010 - Stephen K. Benjamin was 1963 - U.S. Attorney General
elected as Columbia’s first African Robert Kennedy spoke at the
American mayor. University of South Carolina about
the national government’s role in
Patriot’s Day Earth Day Arbor Day eliminating racial discrimination.
26 27 28 29 30 1 2
1969 - Journalists reported that
armed students at Voorhees
College in Denmark took over 1967 - Rev. Dr. Martin Luther
the library and other offices on King Jr. spoke at the Greenville
campus to protest conditions and S.C. Memorial Auditorium. In his
to “obtain a more meaningful address, King remarks: “It is time
education in the interest of black for a Second Reconstruction in
people.” South Carolina.”
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Rev. Dr. Benjamin James Glover was born 1960s and joined a lawsuit challenging
in the Promised Land community near racial segregation in public schools in
Greenwood, S.C., on October 26, 1915. From S.C. His daughter Oveta was among a
CALENDAR the age of seven, he was inspired to accept group of eleven African American students
the calling of becoming a pastor and who integrated the public schools of
prepared himself for a lifetime of teaching Charleston in 1963.
and educating people about God. He
attended the public schools of Greenwood, Dr. Glover served twice as the president of
S.C., Gastonia, N.C., and Cincinnati, Ohio. Allen University. He had the honor of having
He received his theology education the highest student attendance and
from Wilberforce University and Payne bringing in the most financial contributions
Theological Seminary. in the school’s history. In 1976, he founded
King Memorial College in Columbia.
Dr. Glover served as a Pastor in the A.M.E.
church until his retirement at age 89. He Dr. “BJ” was the devoted husband of Lydia
was a public school teacher in Due West, Wright Glover. Upon Dr. Glover’s death in
S.C. and a professor of Bible literature and 2010, he was survived by his six children,
psychology at Allen University, where he Madrian G. Garrick, Oveta Glover, Akli
was the department head. He was also the Khalif, Gail Glover, Shawn (Juanita) Glover
department head of Practical Theology and Dewey Glover, and nine grandchildren
at Dickerson Theological Seminary, and four great-grandchildren.
including the Charleston extension. He was
the longest serving pastor in the history As a servant leader committed to a life with
of Mother Emmanuel A.M.E. Church in integrity and love, Dr. Glover admonished
Charleston, S.C. all to “be encouraged and keep the faith.”
Dr. Glover served actively in community
Benjamin James
leadership as president of the Charleston
and Columbia branches of the NAACP, Glover
president of the interdenominational
minister’s Union of Charleston, founder and
president of the Beta Mu Chapter of Phi
Beta Sigma Fraternity, and a member of
the board of trustees at Allen University.
As a staunch advocate for civil rights, Dr.
Glover led many marches and sit-ins in the
Penn Center
Penn School students participating in the Decoration Day parade on St. Helena Island.
Decoration Day is now recognized nationally as Memorial Day.May
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
26 27 28 29 30 1 2
2000 - S.C. Governor Jim Hodges
signed a bill to make Martin Luther
King Jr.’s birthday an official state
holiday. S.C. was the last state
to recognize the day as a paid
holiday for state employees.
3 4 5 6 7 8 9
1898 - Educator and organizer,
Septima Poinsette Clark, 1966 - Reverend Dr. Martin Luther
commonly referred to as the King Jr. spoke to over 5000 1961 - Twenty-one-year-old
“Mother of the Movement” by Dr. people gathered in Kingstree. As John Lewis was beaten while
Martin Luther King Jr. and others, African Americans in Kingstree and participating in the Freedom
was born in Charleston, S.C. around the state ran for political Rides at the Rock Hill Greyhound
office, King championed voter Bus Station. Other riders were
1933 - James Brown, “The registrations and encouraged assaulted in Winnsboro. Lewis later
Godfather of Soul” was born in his audience to “march on ballot is elected to the U.S. House of
Barnwell, S.C. Cinco de Mayo boxes” in upcoming primaries. Representatives from Georgia.
10 11 12 13 14 15 16
1862 - Enslaved ship pilot Robert
1919 - A deadly race riot in Smalls liberates 16 slaves, including 1872 - Dr. Matilda Evans was born
Charleston led to the death of members of his family, by piloting in Aiken, S.C. As one of the first 1956 - Twenty-one African
two African Americans. During the 1961 - When the Freedom Rides the Confederate ship, The Planter, licensed African American female American teachers in Elloree, S.C.
course of the following months of reached Sumter, Jerry Moore, through enemy territory in the physicians in the state, Dr. Evans were dismissed from their jobs
the “red summer,” racial violence Herman Harris, and Mae Francis Charleston harbor toward Union established a highly successful after they refused to acknowledge
erupted across the U.S. Moultrie, students from Morris military forces. As an acclaimed practice, community clinics, and their memberships in the NAACP.
College, were recruited by CORE to hero, Smalls pursued political office a nurses training program in
Mother’s Day join the Movement. on the state and national level. Columbia, S.C. Armed Forces Day
17 18 19 20 21 22 23
1963 - Over 1,000 white University
1954 - The US Supreme Court of South Carolina students
ruled school segregation as participated in an anti-integration
unconstitutional in the landmark rally on the campus’ Horseshoe
decision of Brown v. Board of green. After a cross was lit on the
Education. The first of the five campus, some of the students then
cases that made up the Brown suit marched to the State House to
was Briggs v. Elliott from Clarendon oppose the admission of African
County, S.C. American students.
24 1944 - Led by Lighthouse
and Informer 25 26 27 28 29 30
newspaper editor John
McCray, the Progressive
Democratic Party 1822 - Charleston authorities
(PDP) held its first uncovered the plan for the largest
convention in African American slave insurrection
Columbia, in the nation’s history. Denmark
S.C. Vesey, a free man, was named as
the lead organizer of the planned
rebellion. The plot was in response
31 Memorial Day
to the city’s suppression of the
African church in Charleston.
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Reverend James S. Hall Jr. was born in and throughout the South, organizers were
1932, in Marion, S.C. to Reverend James S. jailed for civil rights advocacy.
Hall Sr. and Mrs. Eliza Hall. Hall attended
CALENDAR primary school in Marion and then earned Before organizing the Triumph Baptist
a B.S. in Education and a Bachelor of Church of Philadelphia in 1969, Hall
Divinity degree from Morris College in pastored Mount Rona Baptist Church
Sumter, S.C. He received honorary degrees (Florence, S.C.), Rafting Creek Baptist
from Morris College, Fuller Normal School Church (Sumter, S.C.), Springfield Baptist
in Greenville, S.C., A.M.E. Seminary in Church (Greenville, S.C.) and Morris Chapel
Monrovia, West Africa, and studied Pastoral Baptist Church in Philadelphia, Pa.
Psychology at Temple University.
Reverend Hall has served as Vice President
Throughout Hall’s career, he has been a of the Baptist Educational and Missionary
resolute advocate for civil rights and the Convention of South Carolina, and the S.C.
voiceless. In high school, he organized a NAACP and as President of the Congress
boycott against a major bread company of Racial Equality (CORE) in Greenville,
after a deliveryman struck a black female Operation PUSH (People United to
storekeeper for complaining about delivery Save Humanity), the Baptist Minister’s
of stale bread. While at Morris College, he Conference, and the Pennsylvania Baptist
was removed from his radio broadcast and Convention. He also served on the Board of
threatened when he spoke out against Trustees of Morris College.
racism and segregation.
As senior advisor to lawmakers representing
In October 1959, Jackie Robinson, the Pennsylvania, Hall continues to give voice
famed baseball player, was a keynote to the voiceless within his community.
speaker for the South Carolina NAACP
annual conference in Greenville. When
Awards presented to Hall include the Unity
Global PUSH Legend of Civil Rights, South
James Hall
Robinson prepared to depart the Greenville Carolina Shining Star Award from the South
Municipal Airport, Rev. Hall, Mrs. Hall, and Carolina E&M Baptist State Convention,
others accompanied him. While waiting and the Legacy in Social Justice Award
in the main airport lounge, the group from Rainbow Push. In 2019, the Rev.
was told to move to the colored section. Dr. James S. Hall Jr. Lecture Series in
They refused, which culminated with Philadelphia was named in his honor.
Hall organizing the first march on the
Greenville Municipal Airport in January
1960. In subsequent sit-ins in Greenville
Penn Center
In 1901, Penn School transitioned to Penn Normal, Industrial, and Agricultural School, adding teacher training,
industrial, and agricultural trades to the academic curriculum. Pictured are Penn School scholars assembled
outside of Founder’s Hall.June
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
31 1 2 3 4 5 6
1863 - The Union Army began a
series of raids along the Combahee 1963 - Rev. I. DeQuincey Newman
River in Beaufort and Colleton announced that the NAACP would
counties that freed enslaved stage massive demonstrations in 1939 - Marian Wright Edelman,
people. Acclaimed abolitionist eight S.C. cities unless negotiations founder of the Children’s
and Underground Railroad leader began to “solve racial differences” Defense Fund and a graduate of
Harriet Tubman participated in the over the integration of stores, Spelman College and the Yale
raids as she worked as a spy along restaurants, theaters, and University Law School, was born in
the S.C. coast. public venues. Bennettsville.
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
1910 – Dr. William D. Crum, a S.C.
physician was appointed the U. S.
minister to Liberia.
14 15 1961 - Approximately twenty
16 17 18 19 20
African American students from
Allen University and Benedict
College were prevented from 1944 - George Stinney Jr., a 14-
entering the Sesquicentennial year old young man from Alcolu,
State Park near Columbia by the is executed for the death of two 2015 - Nine members of Mother
South Carolina Law Enforcement white girls in his community. In 2014, Emanuel A.M.E. Church in
Division. This incident was Stinney’s conviction was vacated Charleston (including the church’s
presented as evidence when the after a judge concluded that the pastor State Senator Clementa C.
case was brought to court in the original prosecution was marked Pinckney) were killed in an attack
1961 Brown v. South Carolina State by “fundamental, Constitutional of racist violence while attending
Flag Day Forestry Commission trial. violations of due process.” Bible study. Juneteenth Summer Solstice
21 22 1954 - Sarah Mae 23 1951 - A three-judge panel
in the Federal District Court
24 25 26 27
Flemming was hit and
ejected from a Columbia bus for in Charleston ruled in favor of the
sitting in a seat reserved for white Clarendon County School Board
passengers, seventeen months and against desegregating schools
1985 - Columbia attorney and before Rosa Parks. in Briggs v. Elliott . Judge J. Waties
former member of the General Waring issued a dissent, declaring
Assembly I. S. Leevy Johnson 1964 - The U.S. Supreme Court “segregation is per se inequality.”
was sworn in as the first African reversed the convictions of NAACP lawyers appealed the
American president of the South students in Columbia who were Briggs case to the U.S. Supreme
Carolina Bar Association. charged with trespassing after Court and it became part of
seeking service at segregated the landmark Brown v. Board of
Father’s Day lunch counters. Education decision in 1954.
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American
History
Dr. Roy I. Jones is a lifelong educator who Call Me MiSTER program has generated
has served in South Carolina institutions millions of dollars in revenue, much of which
for nearly 40 years. Jones is the Executive supports students attending HBCUs.
CALENDAR Director of the Call Me MiSTER program
and Provost Distinguished Professor in Jones previously served as a department
Clemson University’s College of Education. chair at Claflin University and was
MiSTER works to increase the number instrumental in it becoming the first
of teachers from diverse backgrounds, historically black, private institution in the
particularly among the nation’s lowest state to be accredited by the National
performing schools. Council for the Accreditation of Teacher
Education. Jones has also served as
The program is the most recognized director of employment for the Charleston
collaborative in the nation for recruiting, County School District.
retaining and developing fully certified,
career-minded African American male Jones is a father and Massachusetts native,
elementary and middle school teachers. but has spent most of his professional
It currently represents 24 colleges and life in the South. He earned a bachelor’s
universities in South Carolina and 10 degree in education from the University of
institutions in nine other states. Massachusetts, Amherst, a master’s degree
in educational psychology from Atlanta
MiSTER has more than doubled the University, and an Ed.D. in higher education
number of African American males from the University of Georgia.
teaching in public elementary school
classrooms. There is a 90 percent retention
rate of program graduates who are still
teaching with eight percent leading schools
in administrative roles. Through numerous
Roy Jones
journal articles, citations and awards, for
both Jones and the program, MiSTER has
demonstrated success in diverse academic
environments.
Jones is a fierce advocate for historically
black colleges and universities (HBCUs)
as early pioneers in producing black
educators. Under Jones’ leadership, the
Penn Center
Penn School was founded in 1862 and 80 pupils enrolled during its inaugural year.
Pictured are Penn School scholars assembled outside of the original Penn School House.July
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
28 29 30 1 2 3 4
1965 - Students working on the
Southern Christian Leadership
Conference’s Project SCOPE
summer project near Charleston
were arrested for trespassing at
1992 - Dr. Edward Sawyer Cooper, 1964 - President Lyndon B. Edisto Beach State Park, which
a native of Columbia and a Johnson signed the Civil Rights had been closed since 1956, when
professor at the University of Act into law, banning segregation the S.C. General Assembly resisted
Pennsylvania, began his tenure as in public places and outlawing 1910 - Civil rights leader and legal campaigns for integration.
the first African American president employment discrimination on the businessman, Esau Jenkins was
of the American Heart Association. basis of race. born on Johns Island, S.C. Independence Day
5 6 7 8 9 10 11
1947 - Camden, S.C. native, 1875 - Educator, civic
Larry Doby, was signed to the leader, and political advisor Dr.
Cleveland Indians, becoming the Mary McLeod Bethune was born in
first African American to play in the Mayesville, S.C.
American League. 2015 - Following the death of 9
parishioners at Charleston’s Mother 1963 - Judge Robert Martin
1979 - Matthew J. Perry Jr., a Emanuel A.M.E. Church, public ordered all state parks to
graduate of the SC State Law protest, and intense debates in the desegregate. Instead, the South
School in Orangeburg, was General Assembly, S.C. Governor Carolina Forestry Commission
nominated by President Jimmy Nikki Haley signed a bill to remove closed all state parks. Judge
Carter as a judge for the U.S. the Confederate flag from the Martin also ordered the University
District Court for the District of S.C. state capitol grounds. of South Carolina to desegregate.
12 13 14 15 16 17 18
1960 - A group of students, known
as the “Greenville Eight” were
arrested for disorderly conduct
when they staged a sit-in at a
Greenville library. The students, 1863 - Distinguished mathe-
including Jesse L. Jackson, were matician, essayist, and Howard
counseled by the Rev. James S. University professor Dr. Kelly Miller
Hall, the pastor of Greenville’s was born in Winnsboro where he
Springfield Baptist Church. attended the Fairfield Institute.
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1942 - Columbia NAACP President
1966 - S.C. State Parks were Rev. E.A. Adams and other
reopened as fully integrated members of the state conference
facilities after being closed by formed the Negro Citizens
the South Carolina Forestry Committee of South Carolina (NCC)
Commission in response to Brown v. to rally support for a voting rights
S.C. Forestry Commission. campaign.
26 27 28 29 30 31 1
1967 - Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr. spoke at the Charleston County
Hall. He is joined by local leaders
including Esau Jenkins, Septima
P. Clark, Z. L. Grady, Daniel Martin,
Herbert Fielding, and James E.
Clyburn.
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African
American
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Rev. Joseph H. Neal was born on August right of all South Carolinians to a clean
31, 1950 to the late Mrs. Laverne Kohn Neal and a healthy environment. In the General
and the late Rev. C.R. Neal of Hopkins, Assembly, Rev. Neal served as Assistant
CALENDAR S.C. He was the third of four children. His Democratic Leader and as Chair of the
compassion for people at an early age South Carolina Legislative Black Caucus. A
foreshadowed his community activism, crowning moment of his legislative career
call to the ministry, and public service was his televised remarks on the State
for social justice. House floor to remove the Confederate flag
from the State House in 2015. It is widely
Rev. Neal was educated in the public recognized as one of the most moving
schools of Richland County and graduated speeches that contributed to the passage
from C.A. Johnson High School in 1968. of legislation that removed the Confederate
Subsequently, he earned a B.A. degree flag after 53 years.
in Psychology from Benedict College and
pursued post-graduate studies at Colgate Rev. Neal was a compassionate force
School of Divinity and the Pittsburgh who gave voice to the voiceless and
Theological Seminary. He received an stood tall for those who could not. In
honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from addition to being the co-chair of the South
Benedict College. Carolina Progressive Network, Neal was
also a member of the NAACP, the Kappa
While pastor for 30 years of Calvary Baptist Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., and many other
Church in Chester, Rev. Neal was elected organizations. The Joseph H. Neal Health
to the S.C. House of Representatives in Collaborative in Columbia is named in his
1992 and served 25 years representing honor. He passed away on February 14, 2017.
District 70. During his tenure, he sponsored
numerous pieces of social justice legislation
aimed at improving the quality of life for
Joe Neal
all South Carolinians. He was responsible
for the introduction and passage of South
Carolina’s first anti-racial profiling legislation
that became law in 2005. As a constant
voice for clean water and environmental
justice, he sponsored legislation, the
Environmental Bill of Rights, each year for
25 years to amend the South Carolina
Constitution to codify the fundamental
Penn Center
The original Penn School House was built in three separate parts in the North, shipped down to the Atlantic Coast, and brought
onto Penn School’s campus in 1865. This was the first pre-fabricated building in the South. In this photograph, teachers and
scholars are gathered in the morning before class.August
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
2 3 4 5 6 7 1 1894 - Benjamin Elijah Mays,
educator, social activist,
mentor to Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr., and
the President of
Morehouse
College was
1957 - In Rock Hill, the NAACP and 1810 - Robert Purvis, an 1965 - President Lyndon B. Johnson born in
the Local for Promotion of Human abolitionist, participant in the signed the Voting Rights Act Epworth,
Rights group, led by Rev. Cecil Underground Railroad, and a into law, enforcing the fifteenth S.C.
A. Ivory, began a bus boycott to founder of the American Anti- amendment and helping to
protest racial segregation in public
transportation.
Slavery Society, was born in
Charleston, S.C.
guarantee the right to vote for all
Americans, regardless of race. 8
9 10 11 12 13 1946 - Black voters in
Columbia, including George
14 15
Elmore, a native of Holly Hill,
attempted to vote in the August
primary but were turned away by
Democratic Party officials. Harold
Boulware, the head of the state
NAACP legal committee, filed 1883 - Ernest Everett Just,
a class action lawsuit, Elmore v. biologist, Dartmouth College
1965 - Tony Award, Academy 1922 - One of the first African Rice. In a ruling supporting Elmore, graduate, recipient of the NAACP
Award, and Emmy Award winning American models in the U.S., federal judge J. Waites Waring Spingarn Medal, and a founder of
actress Viola Davis was born in St. Ophelia DeVore-Mitchell was born declared that it “is time for South the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc.
Matthews, S.C. in Edgefield, S.C. Carolina to rejoin the Union.” was born in Charleston, S.C.
16 17 18 19 20 21 22
1849 - Archibald Grimke, one of the
first African Americans to attend
Harvard Law School and a recipient
of the NAACP Spingarn Medal, was
born near Charleston, S.C. Senior Citizens Day
23 24 25 26 1955 - Charleston, S.C.
Cannon Street YMCA All-
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Stars were named state little league
baseball champions after all white 1963 - South Carolinians joined
teams refused to play them. Little 1963 - Several days before Henrie over 250,000 in Washington, DC
1862 - Following appeals by Civil League Baseball World Series officials Monteith was set to desegregate for the March on Washington for
War hero Robert Smalls and ruled their state championship the University of South Carolina, Jobs and Freedom. Sumter native
others, President Abraham Lincoln invalid, denying them the chance to a bomb exploded on her family James T. McCain, a leader in the
authorized the creation of the First compete in the World Series. property near Columbia. Despite Congress on Racial Equality (CORE)
South Carolina Volunteer Infantry the violence, Monteith and her joined others in coordinating
Regiment Volunteers, an all-black Women’s family remained undeterred the logistics of the March. South
military regiment who served during in their efforts to challenge Carolinian Dr. Benjamin E. Mays
the Civil War. Equality Day segregation in higher education. delivered the benediction.
30 31 1 2 3 4 5
1960 - Rev. I. DeQuincey Newman
led a group of civil rights activists
to attempt a “wade-in” at Myrtle
Beach State Park. Park officials
denied the group entry and closed
the park. After being arrested near
Conway for “driving too fast,” the
police escorted Rev. Newman’s
group to the Horry County line
where they were then chased by a
white mob.
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African
American
History
As an educator and community leader, Presently, Norris is a Greenville County
Xanthene Sayles Norris has established Councilwoman. She has been elected for
an exemplary career of public service five terms since 1997 and represents District
CALENDAR and civic engagement. 23. Councilwoman Norris is Chairman Pro
Tem of Greenville County Council. She
Born in Winston Salem, N.C., Norris grew up currently serves on the Finance Committee
and attended public schools in Greenville, and is Vice Chairman of the Public Safety
S.C. She graduated from Sterling High and Human Services Committee. She is a
School in 1946 as the valedictorian of her Trustee, the College Ministry Chair, and the
class. She earned a bachelor’s degree Personnel Chair of the historic Springfield
from Clark College in Atlanta, Ga. and a Baptist Church. Additionally, Norris is a life
master’s degree from Furman University in member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority,
Greenville. She is a retired educator who Inc., a life member of the NAACP, a board
served as a Greenville County teacher, member of the Peace Center, and the past
high school counselor, and adult United Negro College Fund Upstate Chair.
education director. In 2016, the Greenville Business Magazine
selected Norris as one of the fifty most
Norris was the Past Executive Director influential people in Greenville.
of the local Miss America Palmetto
Scholarship Program, and presently
is Chairman of the A.J. Whittenberg
Academic Scholarship. She has been an
annual Greenville County Democratic Party
State Convention delegate since 1997 and
was a State Democratic Party delegate
to the 2004 and 2012 Democratic Party
National Conventions.
Xanthene
Because of her diplomacy, initiative, Norris
and determination to honor the legacy
of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Greenville
County officially observed the Martin
Luther King Jr. holiday for the first time,
on January 16, 2006, and as a continuing
national celebration.
Penn Center
Penn School students attending a woodworking class in the Cope Industrial Shop in 1912. Rededicated in April 1999, the Cope Shop
now houses the York W. Bailey Museum, named after the first African American physician on St. Helena Island. Dr. Bailey graduated
from Penn School and received his medical degree from Howard University.September
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
30 31 1 2 3 4 5
1983 - Jasper Cureton, a native of 1869 - Anna DeCosta Banks, RN, a 1963 - Following the court ruling
Oconee County and a graduate of graduate of Hampton Institute and Millicent Brown et al. v. Charleston
South Carolina State College and a pioneer in the nursing profession, County School Board, District
the University of South Carolina, was born in Charleston, S.C. A 20, 11 African American students
was sworn in as the first African wing of the Medical University of desegregated Charleston County
American member of a newly South Carolina (MUSC) is named schools, setting stage for school
formed S.C. Appeals Court. in her honor. desegregation across S.C.
6 7 1867 - Celia Mann, a free
woman of color and a midwife,
8 9 10 11 12
died in Columbia at 68 years of age.
According to family oral tradition,
Celia was born into slavery in 1739 - The Stono Rebellion
Charleston, gained her freedom, occurs at Stono Bridge, South of
and walked to Columbia. She and Charleston. This large-scale act
her husband, Ben DeLane, owned 2004 - Joseph A. De Laine, Levi of resistance among enslaved 1963 - Henrie Monteith, James L.
their own property, now the site of Pearson, and Harry and Eliza Briggs African Americans who demanded Solomon Jr., and Robert Anderson
the Mann-Simons cottage that was were posthumously awarded their freedom struck fear in white enrolled at the University of South
maintained by their descendants. the Congressional Gold Medal citizens who responded with Carolina, becoming the first
in recognition of their civil rights violent assaults and even tighter African Americans to attend since
Labor Day struggles in Clarendon County. slave codes and regulations. Reconstruction.
13 14 15 16 17 18 19
1931 - Brook Benton [Benjamin
Franklin Peay], American soul
vocalist, was born in Lugoff, S.C.
Rosh Hashanah
Constitution Day Begins
20 1953 - NAACP attorney
21 22 23 24 25 26
Thurgood Marshall spoke at
Allen University and received a
$5000 check from the SC NAACP
to support legal challenges to
segregation, including the pending
Briggs v. Elliott case before the U.S.
Supreme Court.
Rosh Hashanah
Ends Fall Begins
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1959 - Rev. Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr. began holding a series of
meetings of the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference (SCLC) in
1935 - Mamie “Peanut” Johnson, Columbia.
the only woman to pitch for the
Negro Major League was born in 1997 - Alex English, a native of
Ridgeway, S.C. In 1954, she was Columbia, a standout University of
signed to play for the Indianapolis South Carolina basketball player,
Clowns. and a prolific NBA scorer, was
inducted into the Basketball Hall of
Yom Kippur Fame in Springfield, Ma.
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George Rogers, a native of Duluth, Ga., has Saints and three with the Washington
always had a love for football. A standout Redskins, where he won a Super Bowl title
at Duluth High School, Rogers decided to in 1987. Rogers retired after the 1987 season
CALENDAR attend the University of South Carolina and finished his NFL career with 7,176
when coach Jim Carlen told him that he rushing yards and 54 touchdowns.
could play in his freshman year.
Rogers is the first in his immediate family
Rogers rushed for 623 yards as a to attend and graduate from college. He
freshman and then tallied 1,006 yards created an endowment to the University
as a sophomore while splitting time with of South Carolina, and as a way of paying
Johnnie Wright. However, Rogers’ junior it forward, started the George Rogers
season launched him into the national Foundation of the Carolinas, Inc., in
spotlight. He finished with 1,681 yards 1991. The foundation provides financial
and eight touchdowns to earn assistance to first-generation college
All-American honors. students and supports community-
based youth development, non-profit
During his senior year, Rogers led the nation organizations. His foundation made a
in rushing with 1,781 yards while scoring $75,000 commitment to the University of
14 touchdowns and unanimously earning South Carolina Student Athlete Promise
All-American honors. In December 1980, Fund, which helps former student-athletes
Rogers bested University of Pittsburgh return to complete their degrees.
defensive lineman Hugh Green and
University of Georgia running back Rogers is a member of the New Orleans
Herschel Walker to win the Heisman Saints Hall of Fame, College Football Hall of
trophy. Rogers is the first and only college Fame, Georgia Sports Hall of Fame, South
football athlete in the state of South
Carolina to win the Heisman.
Carolina Football Hall of Fame, Atlanta
Sports Hall of Fame and his number 38 is
George Rogers
retired at the University of South Carolina.
Selected as the first overall pick in the A statue of Rogers was dedicated at the
National Football League (NFL) draft by the University of South Carolina’s Williams-Brice
New Orleans Saints in 1981, Rogers spent Stadium in 2015.
seven seasons in the NFL. He rushed for
1,674 yards as a rookie, which ranks second
all-time to Eric Dickerson on the single-
season, rookie rushing yards record. Rogers
played four seasons with the New Orleans
Penn Center
Penn School had many extracurricular activities, including basketball. This is a photograph of the
men’s basketball team in 1941. The school had both a boys and girls basketball team.October
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
27 28 29 30 1 2 3
4 5 6 7 8 9 10
1873 - Henry E. Hayne, the black
1862 - The New South newspaper Republican Secretary of State of
in Beaufort reports about plans S.C., registered as a student in
to develop a “Negro village” that the University of South Carolina’s
will provide African Americans Medical School, becoming the first
“more comfort and freedom of known African American student in
improvement” on Hilton Head the university’s history. His enrolled 1941 - Civil rights leader and two-
Island. The village would soon be led to the departure of white time presidential candidate Jesse
known as Mitchelville. students and professors. Jackson was born in Greenville, S.C.
11 12 13 14 15 1960 - Students from Allen 16 1868 - Benjamin F. Randolph, 17
University & Benedict College state senator and chairman
formed the Student Conference for of the state Republican party, was
Human Rights in order to aid cross assassinated as he campaigned at
1964 - When Reverend Dr. Martin campus & city-wide organizing. Hodges Depot in Abbeville, S.C.
1891 - Friendship Institute, a private Luther King Jr. was awarded the
school in Rock Hill held its first Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway, 1967 - Winnsboro native Sergeant 1872 - During an election for state
classes. Later, named Friendship he was joined by a number of close 1st Class Webster Anderson of the officers, the following African 1871 - President Ulysses Grant
Junior College, the school associates, including Charleston 101st Airborne Division was severely Americans were elected: Richard suspended the writ of habeas
trained generations of ministers, educator Septima P. Clark, who injured while successfully defending Gleaves, Lieutenant Governor; corpus and declared martial law
educators, and other professionals directed citizenship training his artillery position from sustained Henry E. Hayne, Secretary of in nine S.C. counties affected by
from around the state until it programs for King’s Southern enemy attack. He was awarded the State; and Francis Cardoza, white Ku Klux Klan attacks and
closed in 1981. Christian Leadership Conference. Congressional Medal of Honor. State Treasurer. violence.
18 19 20 21 22 23 24
1946 - The Southern Negro Youth 1945 - Unionized workers from
Congress held a series of civil rights the Charleston American Tobacco
sessions in Columbia, attracting Company Cigar Factor, comprised
students from across the nation largely of African American women
and other countries. Speakers and men, launched a five-month
included Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois, singer strike demanding better wages and
Paul Robeson, and Columbia working conditions. One of their
organizers, Modjeska Monteith 1917 - John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie, protest songs, “We Will Overcome”
Simkins, John H. McCray, and Dr. jazz trumpeter and Bebop was later revised into the civil rights
Annie Belle Weston. musician, was born in Cheraw, S.C. anthem “We Shall Overcome.” United Nations Day
25 26 27 28 29 30 31
1983 - Rev. I. DeQuincey Newman,
a native of Darlington County, was
elected as a S.C. State Senator
from Richland County, becoming
the first African American to serve
since 1888. Halloween
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