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HISTORY: Resurrection of the S.C. Republican Party

S.C. Encyclopedia | The resurrection of the Republican Party in South Carolina during the second half of the twentieth century was a top-down phenomenon. The first major victory for the Republican Party occurred in 1964. In 1961 Republican U.S. senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona, referring to conservative white southerners, stated, “we’re not going to get the Negro vote as a bloc in 1964 and 1968 so we ought to go hunting where the ducks are.” Conservative white South Carolinians supported Goldwater for president in 1964 and his states’ rights message, and he carried the state, receiving 58.9 percent of the popular vote. From 1964 to the end of the twentieth century, South Carolina voted Republican in every presidential election except 1976, when Jimmy Carter won the state.

by Special to Charleston Currents · 08/15/2016 · Comments are Disabled · Features, S.C. Encyclopedia

HISTORY: She-crab soup

S.C. Encyclopedia | She-crab soup is uniquely Charlestonian-a silky, seafood chowder with a European heritage.

The dish helped put Charleston on the regional culinary road map, as surely as Philadelphia’s cheese steaks or Chicago’s deep-dish pizzas. Shrimp and grits are perhaps the only items appearing more often on the menus of Charleston restaurants than this elegant appetizer.

by Special to Charleston Currents · 08/08/2016 · Comments are Disabled · Features, S.C. Encyclopedia

HISTORY: Harry S. Dent Sr.

Harry Shuler Dent Sr. was born in St. Matthews on February 21, 1930, the son of Hampton Dent and Sallie Prickett. An Eagle Scout and high school valedictorian, he graduated in 1951 from Presbyterian College with degrees in history and English. He married Betty Francis on August 16, 1951. They had four children.

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HISTORY: Marian Wright Edelman

S.C. Encyclopedia | Marian Wright Edelman was born on June 6, 1939, in Bennettsville, the daughter of the Baptist minister Arthur Jerome Wright and Maggie Leola Bowen. She graduated from Marlboro Training High School in 1956; from Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1960; and from Yale Law School in 1963.

by Special to Charleston Currents · 07/17/2016 · Comments are Disabled · Features, S.C. Encyclopedia

HISTORY: Battle of Sullivan’s Island

S.C. Encyclopedia | The Battle of Sullivan’s Island was the first major patriot victory in the Revolutionary War. In February 1776, after British plans to capture Charleston were revealed, South Carolina patriots began construction of a fort on Sullivan’s Island close to the main shipping channel at the mouth of Charleston harbor. Colonel William Moultrie was given command of the island’s forces and ordered to supervise the fort’s construction.

by Special to Charleston Currents · 07/04/2016 · Comments are Disabled · Features, S.C. Encyclopedia

HISTORY: Rock and roll in South Carolina

S.C. Encyclopedia | South Carolina has been the birthplace of numerous rock music pioneers and nationally and internationally known acts. South Carolinians, particularly African American artists, were instrumental in the development of early rock and roll.

by Special to Charleston Currents · 06/27/2016 · Comments are Disabled · S.C. Encyclopedia

HISTORY: I. DeQuincey Newman

S.C. Encyclopedia | Born in Darlington County on April 17, 1911, Isaiah DeQuincey Newman was the son of the Reverend Melton C. Newman and Charlotte Elizabeth Morris. He attended Williamsburg County public schools and Claflin College and was ordained in the United Methodist Church (UMC) in 1931. Three years later he received his bachelor of arts degree from Clark College in Atlanta, then earned his divinity degree from Gammon Theological Seminary in Atlanta in 1937. While serving as a student pastor in Georgia, Newman met Anne Pauline Hinton of Covington, Georgia. They married on April 27, 1937, and later had one child, Emily Morris DeQuincey.

by Special to Charleston Currents · 06/20/2016 · Comments are Disabled · Features, S.C. Encyclopedia

HISTORY: AME Church

S.C. Encyclopedia | To escape racial discrimination in Philadelphia’s Methodist Church, Richard Allen, a former slave, organized the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church there in 1787. It is the oldest African American religious denomination and existed mainly in the North before the Civil War.

by Special to Charleston Currents · 06/13/2016 · Comments are Disabled · Features, S.C. Encyclopedia

“Come by here” is a translation of the Gullah “Kum ba yah,” a song familiar now throughout the world. Learn more.

HISTORY: Gullah

S.C. Encyclopedia | Up until the Yamassee War of 1715, Indian languages were the most frequently spoken, but by 1730 the majority of people in South Carolina spoke African languages or an African-English creole language called Gullah or Geechee. At the beginning of the colonial era Africans numbered only a few hundred, but by 1775 their numbers had increased to 107,300. Europeans numbered only 71,300 by that date, and Indians had dwindled from 10,000 to 500.

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HISTORY: Hogs

S.C. Encyclopedia | Pork has been important to the diet and economy of South Carolina since colonial times. Hogs were probably introduced to South Carolina in the sixteenth century by Spanish explorers. Indians acquired some of these animals, and English settlers purchased swine from the natives when they arrived at Charleston in 1670.

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