Join author, Carolyn Click in a discussion of her latest book about George Elmore’s fight for the right to vote in South Carolina. South Carolina was an important battleground for the Civil Rights movement. Briggs v. Elliot was a key victory in Brown v. Board of Education, which led to desegregation in schools. George Elmore’s case […]
Two short months after entering the Second World War Camden, SC became host to some guests from across the pond. The Royal Air Force (RAF) sent over 200 pilots to the Southern Aviation School in 1942. There they trained for combat that would take place in Nazi Germany. Join Joe Long, Curator of Education at the […]
We hope you will join us for Easter at Aberdeen again this year! More details about the day to come.
Presented by: Ann-Chadwell Humphries In 1923, on the last day in this two-story wooden school, people packed the house for the school play. In the third act, an oil lantern fell to the floor. Everything caught fire. Relatives threw children out windows, slid others down outer walls. The seventy-seven souls who perished—only thirteen recognizable—were laid […]
