Walter Edgar's Journal

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2021-03-08

  To the End of the World: Nathanael Greene, Charles Cornwallis, and the Race to the Dan

This week on Walter Edgar's Journal, author Daniel Waters talks with Walter Edgar about a compelling chapter of the American Revolution. Waters is author of the book, To the End of the World: Nathanael Greene, Charles Cornwallis, and the Race to the Da... 		  Walter Edgar author
2021-03-01

  In Her Shoes: A History of the League of Women Voters of South Carolina

The League of Women Voters of South Carolina has a long and colorful history. Born out of the women's suffrage movement, the South Carolina League was organized in 1920, the year of the ratification of the 19th Amendment that ended a 72-year struggle f... 		  Walter Edgar author
2021-02-22

  The Beginnings of Black Activism in South Carolina

After World War I, Black South Carolinians, despite poverty and discrimination, began to organize and lay the basis for the civil rights movement that would occur after World War II. Dr. Bobby Donaldson of the University of South Carolina talks about t... 		  Walter Edgar author
2021-02-15

  Judge J. Waties Waring and the Secret Plan that Sparked a Civil Rights Movement

Four years before the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education, a federal judge in Charleston hatched his secret plan to end segregation in America. Julius Waties Waring was perhaps the most unlikely civil rights hero in history... 		  Walter Edgar author
2021-02-08

  Stories of Struggle: The Clash over Civil Rights in South Carolina

In her new book, Stories of Struggle: The Clash over Civil Rights in South Carolina (2020, USC Press), journalist Claudia Smith Brinson details the lynchings, beatings, cross burnings, and venomous hatred that black South Carolinians endured—as well as... 		  Walter Edgar author
2021-02-01

  Charleston Patriots in Exile During the Revolution

In the months following the May 1780 capture of Charleston, South Carolina, by combined British and loyalist forces, British soldiers arrested sixty-three paroled American prisoners and transported them to the borderland town of St. Augustine, East Flo... 		  Walter Edgar author
2021-01-25

  The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature

“In me, there is the red of miry clay, the brown of spring floods, the gold of ripening tobacco. I am, in the deepest sense, colored.” From these fertile soils—of love, land, identity, family, and race—emerges The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's... 		  Walter Edgar author
2021-01-18

  Newspaper Wars: Civil Rights and White Resistance in South Carolina, 1935-1965

In spite of a growing movement for journalistic neutrality in reporting the news of the 20th century, journalists enlisted on both sides of the mid-century struggle for civil rights. Indeed, against all odds, the seeds of social change found purchase i... 		  Walter Edgar author
2021-01-14

  Uncompromising Activist: Richard Greener, First Black Professor at USC

Richard Theodore Greener (1844–1922) was a renowned black activist and scholar. The first black graduate of Harvard College, he became the first black faculty member at the University of South Carolina, during Reconstruction. He was even the first blac... 		  Walter Edgar author
2021-01-04

  Pat Conroy: My Exaggerated Life

Pat Conroy’s memoirs and autobiographical novels contain a great deal about his life, but there is much he hasn’t revealed with readers until now. My Exaggerated Life (2018, University of South Carolina Press) is the product of a special collaboration ... 		  Walter Edgar author