CHARLESTON, SC (WCSC) - The bravery of black hospital workers in Charleston remembered 45 years after the hospital workers' strike of 1969. Thursday afternoon local organizations and state leaders ...
On the night of John F. Kennedy’s assassination in 1963, black activist Bill Saunders says he was sitting in the Progressive Club on Johns Island when a gunshot crashed through the window. The bullet ...
The only physical remembrance at the Medical University of South Carolina of the 1969 hospital workers strike is a silver-and-black historic marker that stands modestly along a pedestrian entrance to ...
In the spring of 1969, Coretta Scott King stood in front of a packed church in Charleston, S.C., to address a group of striking hospital workers. She wore a simple white dress and layered strands of ...
In the late 1960s, Mary Moultrie saw injustice and spoke out. For that, her career as a nurse was sometimes threatened. Change came after she became one of the leading organizers of the 113-day strike ...
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – 1969 was an out of this world year — Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, protestors battled against the Vietnam War, more than a half million people flocked to Woodstock, ...
The S.C. Poor People’s Campaign will host an event this weekend in honor of the women of the 1969 Charleston hospital workers strike. The program will start at 10 a.m. at Charity Missionary Baptist ...
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - As America dealt with racial strife and injustice, the city of Charleston was not immune. In 1969, the hospital workers at the medical college went on strike demanding better ...
In the spring of 1969, Coretta Scott King stood in front of a packed church in Charleston, S.C., to address a group of striking hospital workers. She wore a simple white dress and layered strands of ...
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