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Updates on the events, exhibits, archives and staff of the South Carolina Historical Society.

March

On March 17, 1856, the Mount Vernon Ladies Association received its charter, in large part because of Ann Pamela Cunningham …

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February

February 1960 - South Carolina Experiences its First “Sit-In” On February 12, 1960, several African American students from Friendship Junior College …

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January

On Jan. 23, 1777, William Henry Drayton addressed the Georgia Convention in Savannah proposing that South Carolina annex the state …

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December

On December 16, 1762, the South Carolina legislature resolved to do no further business with the governor until he recognized …

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