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Peabo Bryson in a dark suit with a light dress shirt, and colorful dark and light blue handkerchief.

Peabo Bryson

Greenville native Peabo Bryson is an R&B and Soul Singer-Songwriter. He is known for singing "A Whole New World" from Disney's 1992 animated feature film Aladdin.

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Laurence Massillon Keitt

Civil War Confederate Army Officer, US Congressman

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David Rogerson Williams

45th Governor of South Carolina.

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Clemmie E. Webber

Advocate of women’s rights and suffrage and co-founder of the literacy movement in South Carolina

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Lancaster County

Lancaster County and its county seat of Lancaster were named for Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

U.S. Post Office, Florence, South Carolina, in 1938.

Florence County

Florence County took its name from its county seat, the city of Florence.

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Dorchester County

Dorchester County was named for Dorchester, Massachusetts.

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Orangeburg County

Orangeburg County and its county seat, Orangeburg, were named for William IV (1711-1751), Prince of Orange, the son-in-law of King George II.

South Carolina Facts

South Carolina State Hospitality Beverage

Tea was designated as the official State Hospitality Beverage by Act Number 31 of 1995. South Carolina was the first state to grow tea in the United States and the birthplace of the sweet tea beverage. 

South Carolina Glossary

People marching and carrying signs for equal rights, integrated schools, decent housing, and an end to bias.

Civil Rights Movement

(noun) referring to the American Civil Rights Movement - an umbrella term for the many varieties of activism that sought to secure full political, social, and economic rights for Black Americans and other minority groups in the period from 1946 to 1968.