Marjorie Hammock
(1936-) Marjorie Hammock was born in Atlanta Georgia and moved to Connecticut with her parents as part of the Great Migration. She studied social structure through her time as a …
Groundbreakers
Kimberly Clarice Aiken Cockerham
(1795-) Kimberly Clarice Aiken Cockerham has had great successes in the face of adversity. She had brain surgery at just eleven years old, then went on to graduate from Columbia …
Dr. Matilda Arabella Evans
(1872-1935) Matilda Arabella Evans graduated from the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1897, going on to become the first African American woman licensed to practice medicine in South Carolina. …
Darla Moore
(1954-) Darla Moore has built herself into one of the most prominent names in business in the South. She is the first woman to be profiled on Fortune magazine’s cover …
Irene Trowell-Harris
(1939-) After growing up picking cotton with her family, Irene Trowell-Harris found a different calling for herself and became a nurse at her community college. Her church gathered money to …
Nikki Haley
(1972-) Nikki Haley was born in Bamberg South Carolina and received a bachelor’s degree from Clemson University. In 1998, Haley joined the board of directors for Orangeburg’s Chamber of Commerce …
Carrie Pollitzer
(1881-1974) Carrie Pollitzer was born in Charleston, South Carolina in 1881. Carrie worked hard and graduated from Memminger Normal School and studied at Columbia Teacher’s College in New York City …
Eulalie Chafee Salley
(1883-1975) Eulalie Chafee Salley grew up on a plantation home, was educated, and she was able to attend Virginia’s Mary Baldwin College and Converse College for one year each. She …
Clelia Peronneau McGowan
(1865-1956) Clelia Peronneau McGowan grew up with an unusually progressive education after being born to two parents prominent in southern society. Her governess imparted on her thoughts of racial equality …
Modjeska Monteith Simkins
(1899-1992) Modjeska Monteith Simkins, known as the matriarch of the Civil Rights Movement, graduated from Benedict College in 1921 then began teaching at Booker T. Washington High School. Starting in …