Time Period: Civil Rights Era (1955 - 1969)

Garnet and Black Yearbooks, 1899-1994

The University of South Carolina Garnet and Black Yearbooks range from 1899 to 1994 and are from the South Caroliniana Library collection. Browse the yearbooks by decade, or search across available volumes with a keyword search.


Quick Access:
View Partner Collection Homepage / View in Discovery

South Carolina Oyster Industry: A History

This is an electronic resource from the Gregg-Graniteville Library at University of South Carolina, Aiken


Quick Access:
View Partner Collection Homepage / View in Discovery

Semaphore Magazine

The Semaphore magazine covers the North and South Carolina cities that the Piedmont & Northern and Durham & Southern railways passed through including genealogically relevant information like birth and marriage announcements, plus photographs and articles about mid-20th century economic and industrial development in the cities served by the railroad.


Quick Access:
View Partner Collection Homepage / View in Discovery

James and Marian Robinson Scrapbooks, 1935-1969

This collection includes both a bound (1944-1949) and an unbound (1935-1969) scrapbook, and each book offers a snapshot into the life of Jim and Marian Robinson. Letters, photos, and newspaper clippings are all included in this collection.


Quick Access:
View Partner Collection Homepage / View in Discovery

Clemson University Commencement Programs

Clemson University’s commencement programs from 1896 to the Present.


Quick Access:
View Partner Collection Homepage

African American Social Clubs

Meeting minutes of African American women’s social clubs including lists of members, dues collected, and programs sponsored.


Quick Access:
View Partner Collection Homepage / View in Discovery

School Desegregation in the Southern and Border States

School Desegregation in the Southern and Border States is a series of reports compiled between 1956 – 1968 by the Southern Education Reporting Services. These reports provide statistics and information about desegregation of public schools in Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington District …


Quick Access:
View Partner Collection Homepage / View in Discovery

Thomas Family and Muller Family papers

The Thomas Family and Muller Family papers along with related personal collections housed at the South Caroliniana Library at the University of South Carolina total approximately 32 linear feet. There are an additional 219 volumes of business ledgers from the Sandy Run Store and Thomas Store (Ridgeway, S.C.). All of these materials span 1702 through …


Quick Access:
View Partner Collection Homepage / View in Discovery

The Harry and William Birch Collection

Comprised of over 40 hours of motion picture film and video, photographs, paper records and equipment, this collection documents the careers of two distinguished news cameramen who were also father and son. Through home movies and photographs the collection provides rare insight into the personal lives of news cameramen from the silent and early sound …


Quick Access:
View Partner Collection Homepage / View in Discovery

McColl High School Yearbooks

The McColl High School Yearbooks collection is made up of High School yearbooks from the McColl community in South Carolina between the years of 1949 and 1967.  In the collection, you will find yearbooks from two former High Schools: the Robert Fletcher Memorial School and the McColl High School.  


Quick Access:
View Partner Collection Homepage / View in Discovery