Palmetto Profiles

Description

Palmetto Profiles documents the lives and accomplishments of the inductees of the South Carolina Hall of Fame during its first forty years. As Governor John C. West predicted in his dedication speech, the Hall of Fame has indeed become a "vital and integral part of the history and culture of South Carolina." Nearly ninety citizens have been inducted since Apollo 16 astronaut Colonel Charles Duke, Jr., became the first honoree in 1973. Each year one contemporary and one deceased individual is recognized by the hall for outstanding contributions to South Carolina's heritage and progress.

To date, inductees have included political leaders and reformers, artists, writers, scientists, soldiers, clergy, educators, athletes, and others. U.S. president Andrew Jackson, authors Elizabeth Coker and Pat Conroy, jazz legend Dizzy Gillespie, artists Jasper Johns and Elizabeth O'Neil Verner, Catawba King Hagler, Generals Francis Marion and Thomas Sumter, civil rights leaders Mary McLeod Bethune and Reverend Benjamin E. Mays, U.S. senators J. Strom Thurmond and Fritz Hollings, and Nobel Prize winning physicist Charles H. Townes are just some of the representative South Carolinians memorialized in the Hall of Fame for their lasting legacies in the Palmetto State and beyond.

Published on the fortieth anniversary of the opening of the South Carolina Hall of Fame and drawn from biographical entries in The South Carolina Encyclopedia, this guidebook presents concise profiles of the inductees from 1973 to 2013. Palmetto Profiles, like the Hall of Fame itself, serves as a tangible link to South Carolina's rich and complex past to the benefit of residents, visitors, and students alike. The volume also includes illustrations of all inductees and a foreword by Walter Edgar, a 2008 Hall of Fame inductee, author of South Carolina: A History, and editor of The South Carolina Encyclopedia.

Sujets

• Cultural
• HISTORY
• Histoire
• Universidad Vanderbilt
• John Drayton
• Rutherford B. Hayes
• Middleton Place
• Archibald Rutledge
• Robert Smalls
• Olin D. Johnston
• Coastal Carolina University
• Order of the Palmetto
• Southern strategy
• Essie Mae Washington-Williams
• Varina Davis
• Thomas Pinckney
• State
• Vanderbilt University
• General officer
• South
• History of the Americas
• Southern Manifesto
• Nathanael Greene
• General
• John Laurens
• United States
• V.
• FL
• Local
• KY
• LA
• Thomas Wolfe
• TN
• Université Vanderbilt
• MS
• SC
• NC
• Strom Thurmond
• AR
• Ralph Nader
• Rutherford Birchard Hayes
• VA
• GA

Informations

• Publié par: University of South Carolina Press
• Date de parution: 30 septembre 2013
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781611172867
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

Extrait

Palmetto Profiles
South Carolina Encyclopedia Editorial Advisory Board
Michael Allen
William P. Baldwin
Barbara L. Bellows
Earl Black
Orville Vernon Burton
Dan T. Carter
David Chesnutt
Thomas Clark
Pat Conroy
William J. Cooper, Jr.
Susan L. Cutter
Chester B. DePratter
Don H. Doyle
Leland Ferguson
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
William Freehling
Eugene Genovese
Cole Blease Graham, Jr.
Jonathan Green
Jan Nordby Gretlund
Robert Hicklin
A. V. Huff, Jr.
M. Thomas Inge
Charles Joyner
Rachel N. Klein
Charles F. Kovacik
Daniel C. Littlefield
Melton McLaurin
William Moore
Idus A. Newby
Patricia C. Nichols
Theda Perdue
Genevieve Peterkin
Robert V. Remini
Robert N. Rosen
Dale Rosengarten
Theodore Rosengarten
Lawrence S. Rowland
Louis D. Rubin, Jr.
Dori Sanders
Constance Schulz
Mark M. Smith
Stanley South
Lester D. Stephens
Allen Stokes
Rodger E. Stroup
C. James Taylor
Thomas E. Terrill
Robert Weir
Susan Millar Williams
Joel Williamson
Mary Ann Wimsatt
Palmetto Profiles
The South Carolina Encyclopedia Guide to the
SOUTH CAROLINA HALL OF FAME
Edited by W. Eric Emerson
Foreword by Walter Edgar
A Project of the Humanities Council sc

The University of South Carolina Press
Published in Cooperation with the South Carolina Hall of Fame with the Assistance of the Myrtle Beach Area Convention and Visitors Bureau
2006 The Humanities Council sc
New material 2013 The Humanities Council sc
Published by the University of South Carolina Press
Columbia, South Carolina 29208
www.sc.edu/uscpress
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Palmetto profiles : the South Carolina encyclopedia guide to the South Carolina Hall of Fame / edited by W. Eric Emerson ; foreword by Walter Edgar.
pages cm. - (The South Carolina encyclopedia guides series)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-61117-284-3 (hardbound : alk. paper) - ISBN 978-1-61117-285-0
(pbk. : alk. paper) - ISBN 978-1-61117-286-7 (ebook)
1. South Carolina-Biography. 2. South Carolina Hall of Fame-Biography.
I. Emerson, W. Eric, 1966- II. South Carolina Hall of Fame
F268.P35 2013
975.7-dc23
2013015102
Editorial Staff
E DITOR IN C HIEF
Walter Edgar
M ANAGING E DITOR
Thomas M. Downey
A SSOCIATE M ANAGING E DITOR
Aaron W. Marrs
C ONSULTING E DITOR
Thomas N. McLean
A SSOCIATE E DITORS

Robert W. Bainbridge, Clemson University (Architecture)
William S. Brockington, Jr., University of South Carolina-Aiken (Transportation)
Katherine Reynolds Chaddock, University of South Carolina (Education)
Peter A. Coclanis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Business and Industry)
Marion Edmonds, South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism (Recreation and Leisure)
Lacy Ford, University of South Carolina (Politics)
Belinda F. Gergel, Columbia, South Carolina (Ethnicity)
Cole Blease Graham, Jr., University of South Carolina (Government and Law)
Charles H. Lippy, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (Religion)
Rudy Mancke, University of South Carolina (Environment and Geography)
Amy Thompson McCandless, College of Charleston (Women)
Peter McCandless, College of Charleston (Science and Medicine)
Bernard E. Powers, Jr., College of Charleston (African Americans)
Eldred E. Prince, Jr., Coastal Carolina University (Agriculture)
Dale Volberg Reed, Chapel Hill, North Carolina (Popular Culture)
John Shelton Reed, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Popular Culture)
Martha R. Severens, Greenville County Museum of Art (Art)
William Starr, Georgia Center for the Book (Literature)
Stephen R. Wise, Parris Island Museum (Military)
R ESEARCH A SSISTANTS
Matthew Lockhart
Benjamin Peterson
Michael Reynolds
I LLUSTRATIONS C ONSULTANTS
Michael Coker, South Carolina Historical Society
Henry Fulmer, South Caroliniana Library
C ARTOGRAPHY
Theodore R. Steinke
Contents
Series Editor s Preface
Foreword
Walter Edgar
Introduction
Hall of Fame Inductees
Baruch, Bernard Mannes
Bass, Robert Duncan
Bernardin, Joseph Louis
Bethune, Mary McLeod
Bolden, Charles Frank, Jr.
Bonham, James Butler
Butler, Pierce
Byrnes, James Francis
Calhoun, John Caldwell
Callen, Maude Daniel
Chesnut, Mary Boykin Miller
Clemson, Thomas Green, IV
Coker, Elizabeth Boatwright
Coker, James Lide, Jr.
Conroy, Donald Patrick
Cunningham, Ann Pamela
Dorn, William Jennings Bryan
Drayton, William Henry
Duke, Charles Moss, Jr.
Edgar, Walter Bellingrath
Edmunds, Frances Ravenel Smythe
Edwards, James Burrows
Farrow, William Glover Bill
Finney, Ernest Adolphus, Jr.
Floyd, Carlisle Sessions
Gillespie, John Birks Dizzy
Godbold, Lucile Ellerbe
Gray, Wil Lou
Gregg, William
Hagler
Hall, William Stone
Hampton, Wade, III
Heller, John Roderick
Heyward, Thomas, Jr.
Hollings, Ernest Frederick Fritz
Horry, Peter
Howie, Thomas Dry
Huntington, Anna Vaughn Hyatt
Jackson, Andrew
Jasper, William
Johns, Jasper
Laurens, Henry
Lynch, Thomas, Jr.
Lynch, Thomas, Sr.
Marion, Francis
Marvin, Robert E.
Mays, Benjamin Elijah
McColl, Hugh Leon, Jr.
McKissick, John
McNair, Robert Evander
McNair, Ronald Erwin
Middleton, Arthur
Milliken, Roger
Mills, Robert
Moultrie, William
Oliphant, Mary Chevillette Simms
Perry, Matthew J., Jr.
Peterkin, Julia Mood
Petigru, James Louis
Pickens, Andrew
Pinckney, Charles
Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth
Pinckney, Eliza Lucas
Pinckney, Thomas
Poinsett, Joel Roberts
Richardson (Paszek), Anne Worsham
Richardson, Robert Clinton Bobby
Riley, Richard Wilson
Russell, Donald Stewart
Rutledge, Archibald
Rutledge, Edward
Rutledge, John
Simmons, Philip
Simms, William Gilmore
Sims, James Marion
Smalls, Robert
Smart, Jacob Edward
Springs, Elliot White
Sumter, Thomas
Thurmond, James Strom
Townes, Charles Hard
Travis, William Barret
Verner, Elizabeth O Neill
Walker, William
West, John Carl
Westmoreland, William Childs
Wylie, Walker Gill
Yarborough, William Caleb Cale
Young, Anne Austin
Series Editor s Preface
The South Carolina Encyclopedia was published in 2006 to be a people s encyclopedia, a comprehensive single-volume print reference for anything that anyone wanted to know about the Palmetto State s rich cultures and storied heritage, from prehistory to the present. Including nearly two thousand entries and five hundred illustrations, the encyclopedia was the result of a six-year collaboration between the Humanities Council SC , the Institute for Southern Studies at the University of South Carolina, and the University of South Carolina Press. Nearly six hundred contributors came together to write more than one million words depicting our state s representative people, places, and things. The encyclopedia is an authoritative and entertaining compilation of essays covering an array of topics ranging from war and politics to arts and recreation, from agriculture and industry to popular culture and ethnicity. As diverse as the populations that live within the thirty-one thousand square miles that make up the Palmetto State, the entries included in The South Carolina Encyclopedia were chosen to best represent the many facets of our shared experiences that remind us of who we are, where we come from, what we have in common, and why we are distinctive.
Thanks to the generosity and vision of the Humanities Council SC and the collaboration and cooperation of the University of South Carolina Press, selected portions of the multiyear project that became the widely praised and best-selling print encyclopedia are now available in a new way through this South Carolina Encyclopedia Guides Series. The guides highlight, in an easy-to-access digital format, specific topic areas from the original print version. Where appropriate, entries have been updated or added. For example, the guide to the counties has been updated to include more recent population data, and the guide to the governors has been expanded to include all individuals who have been governor-whether elected or constitutionally succeeding to the office. Where possible, illustrations have been included and, in some cases, new illustrations not part of the print edition have been added.
In March 2012 the venerable Encyclopedia Britannica announced that after 244 years, it would cease publishing its print edition and focus solely on the digital version of its content. This transition is indicative of an unquestionable trend toward the digitization of reference materials to serve better the needs of the diverse range of users who have embraced the technology that brings this content to you via a whole host of devices-a technology that continues to revolutionize the ways that sound scholarship is made available and useful for an interested public.
The South Carolina Encyclopedia Guides Series-because of its digital format and its focus on thematic segments-expands the accessibility and functionality of the content created in the print encyclopedia and invites new readers to understand better the hundreds of people, places, and things that have defined the South Carolina experience.
W ALTER E DGAR
Foreword
We can learn much about our vision and values as a society from those whom we choose to honor and chronicle. Since its inception in 1973, the South Carolina Hall of Fame has taken as its mission the commemoration of the lives of South Carolinians past and present who have made valuable contributions to our shared heritage and progress. Those well-chosen words, heritage and progress, reflect the Hall of Fame s commitment to presenting an inclusive view of South Carolina s history as experienced, shaped, and recorded by representative citizens-men and women, black, white, and native American, from the eighteenth century to the present day.
The South Carolina Hall of Fame s eighty-nine inductees to date include obvious and popular cho