True stories of Black South Carolina / Damon L. Fordham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fordham, Damon L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--South Carolina--Biography--Anecdotes.

African Americans.

African Americans--South Carolina--History--Anecdotes.

History.

South Carolina.

Genre:

Anecdotes.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

166 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

Charleston, SC : History Press, 2008.

Summary:

Collected here for the first time, this selection of essays by historian Damon L. Fordham brings these stories to light. Rediscover the tales of Samuel Smalls, the James Island beggar who inspired DuBose Heyward's Porgy, and Denmark Vesey, the architect of the great would-be slave rebellion of 1822. Learn about the blacks who lived and worked at what is now Mepkin Abbey, the Spartanburg woman who took part in a sit-in at the age of eleven, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s visit to Charleston in 1967. These articles are well-researched and provide an enlightening glimpse at the overlooked contributors to South Carolina's past.

Contents:

For the brothers who aren't here

The spirit of Miss Martha

Appreciation of life

Recollections of slave rebellions

Br'er Rabbit in South Carolina

Augustus Ladson and the slave stories

The Black lynchers of Pickens County

George Washington Murray and the Black inventors

The case of Frazier Baker

Spartanburg, South Carolina: One city, two incidents

Edmund Jenkins: from slavery to lawman

The Charleston race riot of 1919: a forgotten event

Nathaniel Frederick: the crusading lawyer

Samuel Smalls: the man behind Porgy

A forgotten friendship

Frank Dunston: forgotten hero

The eleven-year-old activist

The struggle of Esau Jenkins

The day Dr. King came to town: July 30, 1967

The other side of Mepkin.

ISBN:

9781596294059

1596294051

OCLC:

183926389