Episode 172: The Advent of Black Suffrage in South Carolina

Charleston Time Machine - A podcast by Nic Butler, Ph.D. - Fridays

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The roots of voter discrimination in South Carolina are embedded in colonial-era traditions of exclusion that continued through the Civil War. The long campaign to establish the right for black men to vote in the Palmetto State finally succeeded in 1867, but that seminal event sparked a racially-charged backlash that reverberated through the generations to the present.