South Carolina
South Carolina marks ex-slave’s daring sail to freedom
Descendants of Civil War hero Robert Smalls are celebrating the ex-slave who 150 years ago this weekend commandeered a Confederate steamship and evaded batteries overlooking Charleston harbor to reach a Union blockade and freedom. Calling themselves the “family of cousins” and ranging in age from 3 months to 94 years old, Smalls’ descendants came to [...]
Clyburn words needed behind the scenes too
From his battles for civil rights to service in state government with the late Gov. John C. West and as leader of the Human Affairs Commission, from his historic election as South Carolina’s first African-American congressman since Reconstruction to assuming a top leadership position in the U.S. House, Congressman James Clyburn is no stranger to [...]
S.C. Rep. Clyburn compares voter ID laws to Jim Crow era
U.S. House Assistant Democratic Leader Jim Clyburn and voting-rights advocates warned Wednesday that laws in South Carolina and other states could disenfranchise millions of Americans in the November presidential elections. The congressman compared the voter photo ID law that Gov. Nikki Haley signed last month and similar laws in other states with the post-Reconstruction Jim [...]
NAACP LDF Seeks to Join Fight Against South Carolina’s Discriminatory Photo ID Law
The South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP and individual Black college students moved to join a lawsuit to prevent the implementation of South Carolina’s discriminatory voting law. In the lawsuit, South Carolina v. United States, South Carolina asks a federal court in Washington, D.C. to approve, under the Section 5 preclearance provision of the [...]
Black voters ask U.S. Supreme Court to hear appeal in S.C. redistricting case
Six black South Carolina voters on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear an appeal over the state’s new congressional and state House districts. The court has not said whether it will take the case, which bypassed the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals. Earlier this month, a three-judge federal panel ruled that the state’s [...]
