The Friendship Nine changed the civil rights movement in 1961 by choosing prison rather than paying a fine for a sit-in at a ...

The death of Ruth Ann Butler sent shockwaves through the Upstate as political figures McMaster and White offer condolences to ...

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

University of South Carolina turned him away from its law school, Jacob Joseph Martin was honored at USC as a civil rights trailblazer.

The State Superintendent of Education Ellen Weaver and two Midlands school districts are at the forefront of a Civil Rights ...

DAVENPORT — “March to Remember,” a silent march commemorating the Civil Rights movement and St. Ambrose College’s (now university) role in it kicked off the university’s weeklong 2025 Civil Rights ...

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Joe Biden spent his final full day as president Sunday in South Carolina ... on the influence of both the civil rights movement and the state itself in his ...

This weekend, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University will mark the 65 th Anniversary of the Woolworth Sit-Ins./ On February 1 st, 1960, four North Carolina A&T students started a ...

COLUMBIA — Seventy-five years after a segregated University of South Carolina turned him ... set the stage to advance the modern civil rights movement." When the university returned his 1950 ...