Justice Jonathan Jasper Wright was the first African American to practice law in South Carolina. He was also elected to the state Senate from Beaufort County, making him among the state's first African American legislators.
Septima Poinsette Clark was an African American educator and activist for equal rights who worked with the NAACP and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Modjeska Monteith Simkins was an African American civil rights activist who was the Secretary of the NAACP in South Carolina and helped write the court case for Briggs v. Elliott.
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