Articles, Reviews, Notices
The Smithsonian, SC Humanities, and Williamsburgh Historical Society in Kingstree Team up to acknowledge Democracy and Briggs v. Elliott
Stories of
Reverend Cecil Augustus Ivory, Civil rights Hero, for Friends of York County Library
“Briggs v. Elliott brought us Brown v. Board of Education. Here’s how,” American Experience, PBS
The Post and Courier, December 16, 2020
Safely Giving the Gift of Art
For the bibliophiles among us though there is nothing like cracking open a brand-new book on Christmas morning. This year, you can hunker down with acclaimed Columbia journalist Claudia Smith Brinson’s “Stories of Struggle: The Clash over Civil Rights in South Carolina,” a timely read if ever there was one. — Cindi Boiter
FREETIMES, December 9, 2020
BOOK
Author Talk: Claudia Smith Brinson
The description for Claudia Smith Brinson’s new book, “Stories of Struggle: The Clash Over Civil Rights in South Carolina” doesn’t beat around the bush. The stalwart Palmetto State journalist, it reads, “details the lynchings, beatings, bombings, cross burnings, death threats, arson, and venomous hatred that black South Carolinians endured — as well as the astonishing courage, devotion, dignity, and compassion of those who risked their lives for equality".” Hard to think of a better year than 2020 to dig into the past of this state’s racial conflicts for context about the ones right in front of us. — Jordan Lawrence
“Author Shares Stories,” Columbia Star
“Stories of Struggle,” The Post and Courier
“Stories of Struggle”: A Book Review, Richland Library
“Richly detailed, Brinson brings the agony and backlash protestors battled during this movement, while shining a light on so many of the people who were influential…. Extensively researched, this book is by no means light reading but is crucial to the understanding of the Civil Rights movement as a whole, the role that South Carolina played nationally, and to understanding the current racial climate that we find ourselves in today.”