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The Cecil Williams South Carolina Civil Rights Museum will work to have the historic Briggs v. Elliott case recognized as the beginning of the modern civil rights movement, museum founder and director Cecil Williams said in a conference Thursday.
Despite its significance to race relations and the Civil Rights Movement, South Carolina was the last state in the South to have its own Civil Rights museum. The absence was particularly glaring for photographer Cecil Williams, who documented much of the movement and eventually transformed his own home in the city of Orangeburg into a… Continue reading South Carolina’s Civil Rights Museum, Centered On Work Of Cecil Williams, Gets New Home
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