Viola Davis
Viola Davis is an actress. She is the first African-American and currently the youngest actor to achieve the "Triple Crown of Acting."
Mignon L. Clyburn
Mignon L. Clyburn was the first African American woman to head the Federal Communications Commission.
James Clyburn
James Enos Clyburn is a U.S. Congressman and a democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
David Robert Coker
David Robert Coker was a Hartsville, SC businessman and philanthropist who founded the “Coker’s Pedigreed Seed Catalogue” in 1914.
Dave Cockrum
Dave Cockrum is most known for being the creator of Marvel's X-Men characters, Thunderbird, Colossus, Nightcrawler, and Storm.
Thomas Green Clemson
Thomas Green Clemson was a statesman, ambassador, US Superintendent of Agriculture, and founder of Clemson University.
Septima Poinsette Clark
Septima Poinsette Clark was an African American educator and activist for equal rights who worked with the NAACP and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Alice Childress
Born in Charleston, SC Alice Childress was a novelist, playwright, and actress. She is known as the only African-American woman to have written, produced, and published plays for four decades.
Mary Boykin Chesnut
Born near Statesburg, SC, Mary Boykin Chesnut was married to an aide to Confederate President Jefferson Davis, and she kept a famous diary vividly describing events during the Civil War.
Chubby Checker
Born in Spring Gulley (Andrews, SC) with the name Ernest Evans, Chubby Checker is a singer best known for “The Twist.”
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