Our Story Matters
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.
- Update frequency
- every 20 days
- Average duration
- 41 minutes
- Episodes
- 6
- Years Active
- 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 Co…
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 th…
‘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 o…
A Civil Rights 'Gem'
As a native of Columbia, South Carolina, Harvard Law Professor Randall Kennedy knows the people and the history of the state's Civil Rights struggle. Now, he teaches his students about one of the era…
We Shall Not Be Moved
On March 2nd, 1961, hundreds of high school and college students rallied from around South Carolina to the Zion Baptist Church at noon. They marched the six blocks from the church to the State House …
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Our Story Matters is a podcast that 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 Car…