Lens on Civil Rights with Millicent E. Brown, Carolyn Click, and Claudia Smith Brinson

Feb 18, 2025 @ 6pm - 7pm | Location: Charleston Library Society, 164 King Street, Charleston, SC 29401

Feb 18, 2025 @ 6pm - 7pm
Location: Charleston Library Society, 164 King Street, Charleston, SC 29401
Hosted by: Charleston Library Society

Join us for a conversation about the history of civil rights in South Carolina, featuring USC Press authors: Millicent E. Brown, Another Sojourner Looking for Truth, Carolyn Click, The Cost of the Vote, Claudia Smith Brinson, Injustice in Focus, and Robert Greene II, co-editor of Invisible No More, as moderator.

Brown, Click, and Brinson will share poignant stories and experiences from the civil rights movement including:

• Memories and insights of a lifetime fighting for Black freedom and social justice from a resident of Charleston’s center of civil rights activity.
• One man’s fight for the ballot, revealing the sacrifices of those who shaped the civil rights movement in the American South.
• Twenty pivotal years of petitioning, preaching, picketing, boycotting, marching, and holding sit-ins chronicled by a longtime journalist through first-hand accounts.

Robert Greene II will moderate the way in which these lauded advocates interacted with different aspects of the civil rights movement, yet all crossing at various points of culture.

Millicent E. Brown is a retired associate professor of history at Claflin University, having taught at several other institutions of higher education as well. She is a lifelong community advocate and spokesperson for improvements in historically and currently exploited neighborhoods and communities of color. She consults with museums, historical sites, and organizations, seeking more accurate analyses of social justice initiatives.

Carolyn Click is a journalist and teacher. She was Virginia editor for United Press International and a reporter at the Roanoke (Va.) Times before coming to The State in Columbia, South Carolina. After a newspaper career, Click taught in the University of South Carolina School of Journalism and Mass Communications and in USC's Honors College. She divides her time between South Carolina and her native Virginia.

Claudia Smith Brinson is an award-winning journalist with more than thirty years of experience at newspapers in Greece, Florida, and South Carolina. Brinson spent most of her journalism career with Knight Ridder at The State newspaper in Columbia, SC, while also freelancing for national publications. She is the author of Stories of Struggle: The Clash over Civil Rights in South Carolina (University of South Carolina Press). Brinson lives in Columbia, SC.

Robert Greene II is an Assistant Professor of History at Claflin University. He is also the President of the African American Intellectual History Society, and Managing Editor Global Black Thought. Dr. Greene II was also co-editor, with Tyler D. Parry, of Invisible No More: The African American Experience at the University of South Carolina, and is currently working on a book titled The Newest South: African Americans and the Democratic Party, 1964 to 2000. Finally, Dr. Greene II is the Lead Instructor for the Modjeska Simkins School of Human Rights, and has written for publications such as The Nation, Oxford American, Jacobin, and The Washington Post.

Tickets:
$10, Charleston Library Society members
$15, general admission

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Hosted by Charleston Library Society