TY - BOOK ID - 80840316 TI - Champions of Civil and Human Rights in South Carolina: Volume 1: Dawn of the Movement Era, 1955-1967 AU - Lare, Marvin Ira AU - Project Muse PY - 2016 SN - 1611177251 9781611177251 9781611177244 1611177243 PB - University of South Carolina Press DB - UniCat KW - African American civil rights workers KW - Civil rights movements KW - African Americans KW - Afro-Americans KW - Black Americans KW - Colored people (United States) KW - Negroes KW - Africans KW - Ethnology KW - Blacks KW - Civil liberation movements KW - Liberation movements (Civil rights) KW - Protest movements (Civil rights) KW - Human rights movements KW - Afro-American civil rights workers KW - Civil rights workers, African American KW - Civil rights workers KW - History KW - Segregation KW - Civil rights KW - South Carolina KW - South Carolina (Colony) KW - South Carolina (Province) KW - I︠U︡zhnai︠a︡ Karolina KW - Politics and government KW - Race relations KW - Black people UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80840316 AB - Champions of Civil and Human Rights in South Carolina is a five-volume anthology spanning the decades from 1930 to 1980 with oral history interviews of key activists and leaders of the civil rights movement in South Carolina. Editor Marvin Ira Lare introduces more than one hundred civil rights leaders from South Carolina who tell their own stories in their own words to reveal and chronicle a massive revolution in American society in a deeply personal and gripping way. This ambitious project of the University of South Carolina's Institute for Public Service and Policy Research was funded in part by the South Carolina Bar Foundation, the Southern Bell Corporation, and South Carolina Humanities. The five volumes serve as a collective memoir featuring original oral history interviews with significant figures in the civil rights movement of the Palmetto State, a survey of archived interviews, a variety of published and unpublished narratives, and illuminating black-and-white photographs. Every page opens doors to new historical evidence and to new insights regarding the people, places, and events of the civil and human rights struggle in South Carolina. Volume 1, Dawn of the Movement Era, 1955-1967, begins with the landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling on Brown v. Board of Education in which the Court declared unconstitutional state laws establishing racially segregated public schools. The ruling prompted strong reactions throughout the nation. In South Carolina white resistance prompted boycotts of merchants by the local NAACP and some of the earliest mass movement protests in the United States. This collection features oral histories from famous leaders U.S. Congressman James E. Clyburn, Septima Poinsette Clark, and I. DeQuincy Newman, as well as small-town citizens, pastors, and students, all sharing their experiences, motivations, hopes and fears, and how they see the struggle today. ER -