Black America Series

Name: Greenville County, South Carolina
Brand: Leola Clement Robinson-Simpson
SKU: 9780738543604
Price: 24.99 USD
Availability: InStock

Black America history books series offers readers an engaging visual tour of black history and historical African American life throughout the country. Visit Richmond, one of the largest black business districts in the country, then learn how African-Americans shaped Charleston’s cuisine and architecture. Groove along to Baltimore’s Black music scene, tour Missouri’s first black city, and meet the activists who fought for civil rights in Atlanta. From Norfolk down to Orlando, these black history books celebrate African-Americans’ important legacy in the United States.

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Greenville County, South Carolina

Columbia, South Carolina

Georgetown County, South Carolina

Charleston, South Carolina

Greenville County, South Carolina

9780738543604

$24.99

Cradled at the foothills of the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains and once known as the "Textile Center of the South," Greenville has evolved into a prosperous hub for corporate development and global commerce. Greenville County's African American community, proud and resourceful, has strong roots dating back to 1770, when blacks helped to carve the county out of an upstate wilderness. The experiences of the black community and its long relationship with whites up to the civil rights movement helped to create the climate for the kaleidoscope of races and cultures in Greenville today.

Columbia, South Carolina

9780738506654

$24.99

South Carolina's capital city enjoys a strong African-American presence, one that has had considerable influence on the growth and development of Columbia's commerce and culture since the city's creation in the late 1700s. The challenges of the antebellum South, Reconstruction, the Civil Rights era, and even the present have shaped a vibrant and dynamic black community, which supplies a wealth of leaders for the city, state, and nation.

Georgetown County, South Carolina

9780738503479

$24.99

Located in one of the Palmetto State's most picturesque regions, Georgetown County is a beautiful coastal county full of African-American traditions and the distinct Gullah heritage.

Derived from the West Africans who were brought to the Carolinas in bondage, the Gullah culture is a melting pot of traditions of different African nations, and while the Gullah region once extended from North Carolina and into Florida, today the Gullah area is mostly confined to Georgia and the Lowcountry of South Carolina. An integral part of the identity of the Lowcountry, the Black community has played a prominent role in the successful development of the county since the first Africans' arrival in the 1600s. This volume serves to highlight and celebrate the county's people, their struggles, and their achievements.