Our Story Matters tells the remarkable, little-known stories of the people who struggled for civil rights in South Carolina. Our host is Dr. Bobby Donaldson, University of South Carolina history professor and director of the Center for Civil Rights History and Research. The Center’s research has uncovered the stories of people whose battles changed their lives, our state, and the nation. Listen to them tell their stories in their own words.

Our Story Matters
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Podcast Overview
Our Story Matters tells the remarkable, little-known stories of the people who struggled for civil rights in South Carolina. Our host is Dr. Bobby Donaldson, University of South Carolina history professor and director of the Center for Civil Rights History and Research. The Center’s research has uncovered the stories of people whose battles changed their lives, our state, and the nation. Listen to them tell their stories in their own words.
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5/11/2022
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Recent Episodes

December 16, 2022
Time for Walls of Segregation to Come Down
In 1963, the Reverend Ralph Waldo Canty graduated from the Lincoln High School in Sumter, South Carolina, and joined a small group of students in the basement of a building on the campus of Morris College. There, they planned public protests against racial segregation in the city. The Sumter Movement held nighttime sit-ins and marches to involve working people and helped support staff stage a 1966 strike at Shaw Air Force Base for fair wages. Listen now.

August 3, 2022
Through the Flames
The youngest student on the first buses to depart Washington, 18-year-old Charles Person survived a vicious beating alongside John Lewis in Montgomery, Alabama. College freshman David Dennis joined the Freedom Rides immediately after the Alabama highway bus burning, when the cost of the journey was starkly clear. He traveled from Montgomery to Jackson, Mississippi. Joan Browning attended the Georgia State College for Women and joined the Georgia Freedom Ride, traveling from Atlanta to A...

July 1, 2022
‘Square Your Shoulders’
When six-year-old Oveta Glover looked across her Charleston street, she did not understand why she could not swing on the school playground on the other side. For three years, her parents worked to open the elementary to her and other African American children. Oveta and her family endured slurs, intimidation, and threats of violence so intense that the children had to move from the city for a time. In August 1963, Oveta Glover walked into the school with her father, who held her hand and rem...
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