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The "We're Here!" project, a collaboration of Historic Columbia, South Caroliniana Library and more, is working to make an archived collection of LGBTQIA+ history in Columbia.
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This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article, which was published April 9, 2021.
In a cramped cell in a South Carolina prison camp, 22-year-old African American activist Thomas Gaither wrote, “I am presently in deep contemplation as to just what our nation and our particular region of the nation prizes most.”
It was Thursday, Feb. 23, 1961, and Gaither was serving a 30-day term of hard labor on a road gang for what police called “trespassing,” when he and students from Friendship Junior College staged a sit-in at a Rock Hill, South Carolina, lunch counter. The letter he was writing marked day 23.
May 27 Are you a history buff? Want to get the kids some learnin'? Or just have a free day and want to explore Richland County and Columbia's past? The State worked with Brian Cuthrell of The South Caroliniana Library at the University of South Carolina and John Sherrer of Historic Columbia, a Columbia preservation group, to put together a list of interesting historical sites in the heart of .