Quiz Bowl Prep Flashcards
(50 cards)
Benjamin Griffith Brawley (Columbia)
Macmillan published his book “A Short History of the American Negro” in 1913.
Briggs V. Elliot
Lawsuit filed by 20 African American parents in Clarendon County for equal educational opportunities for their children.
James Brown
Godfather of Soul
Lucy Hughes Brown
First Black female physician to practice in SC
Francis Lewis Cardozo
In 1868, elected secretary of state, becoming the first African American elected to statewide office.
Chubby Checker (Spring Gully near Andrews)
Born Ernest Evans and re-released one of the biggest songs in the history of recorded music, “The Twist.”
Claflin University
The first historically black college or university in South Carolina
Septima Poinsette Clark
Educator, Civil Rights Activist, and “Mother of the Movement
James Clyburn
Represents the SC’s “largest and poorest legislative district,” 6th Congressional District.
Lawrence Edward Doby (Camden SC)-
First African American to play baseball in the American League, Ihe Cleveland Indians, and the second African American to manage a major-league team, Chicago White Sox.
Willie Earl
In 1947, he was arrested in Greenville, SC, for allegedly stabbing and robbing a white taxi driver. He was taken from a Pickens jail by a mob and lynched. The last racially motivated lynching in SC
Marian Wright Edelmen (Bennettsville, SC)
Founder of the Children’s Defense Fund
Harvey Gantt
First African American to attend Clemson University.
Althea Gibson (Clarendon County)
First African American to capture a Grand Slam event when she won the French Championship.
Jonathan Green
An artist whose paintings reflect an authentic historical understanding of lowcountry culture.
Richard Theodore Greener
First African American to graduate from Harvard University and first African American faculty member of University of South Carolina
Archibald Henry Grimke’(Charleston)
Founding member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Gullah
aka “Geechee,” describes a unique group of African Americans descended from enslaved Africans who settled in the Sea Islands and lowcountry of South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, and North Carolina.
Anna Short Harrington (Cheraw
Hired by The Quaker Oats Company to travel as “Aunt Jemima” who was once on the pancake mix box and syrup bottle.
Henry E. Hayne
The first black student in the history of the University of South Carolina and inaugurated the institution’s first attempt at integration.
Charlayne Hunter-Gault (Due West)
First African American to graduate from the University of Georgia.
Rev. Jesse Jackson (Greenville)
founded Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity) and National Rainbow Coalition.
Isaac Samuel Leevy
Kershaw County native and entrepreneur of a department store, a funeral home, a service station, an automobile repair garage, a barber shop, a beauty shop, a real estate development company, a dressmaking operation, a burial association, and even a commercial hog-raising enterprise
Ernest Everett Just (Charleston)
biologist and educator best known for his pioneering work in the physiology of development, especially in fertilization.
