Chris Bouchillon
Chris Bouchillon was known as "The Original Talking Blues Man."
Clara Smith
Clara Smith was a blues singer from Spartanburg, South Carolina. She was nicknamed the "Queen of the Moaners."
Chippie Hill
Bertha "Chippie" Hill was a blues and vaudeville singer and dancer from Charleston, SC. She is best known for her recording with Louis Armstrong.
Cootie Stark (Johnnie Miller)
Blues and Gospel singer
Peg Leg Sam (Arthur Jackson)
U.S. black blues musician
Levi G. Byrd
Organized a State Conference of NAACP branches
Laurence Massillon Keitt
Civil War Confederate Army Officer, US Congressman
Barbara Wischan Moxon
Political activist
Hilla Sheriff
Physician, public health official
Henrie Monteith Treadwell
Civil rights activist; public health expert and advocate; First Black graduate and Black woman graduate from the University of South Carolina since Reconstruction
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