South Carolina, United States - Obama Presidency Oral History Back South Carolina, United States Index / Locations Transcripts Charles Bolden ...around my dinner table growing up in South Carolina . My mom and dad always taught m... Ta-Nehisi Coates ...started to change, and then—not even South Carolina , but when he started going to state... ...tell some dude, some old Black man from South Carolina who has to walk to the state capito... Gloria Borland ...was I interviewed Joella Edwards in South Carolina . Her father was a surgeon at Straub... Otis Moss III ...the next year it might end up being South Carolina and Georgia. Hitting those historicall... Valerie Jarrett ...Hampshire. [Laughs] Yes. But then came South Carolina . And then came South Carolina. Bot... ...came South Carolina. And then came South Carolina . Both nights ending up, I think—well... ...I will—even now, as happy as I was in South Carolina , I think the remarks that he gave i... ...but I also believed that people in South Carolina were beginning to get pretty grump... ...the grumpiness you were getting from South Carolina and other parts of the country. Well... ...for a Black man, I think the people in South Carolina thought, Okay, well, maybe then it'l... ...And there was a lot of fear in South Carolina , and one of our strategies for dealin... ...So she agreed to go to Orangeburg, South Carolina , and she gave an incredible speec... ...barbershops and beauty parlor talk in South Carolina , and it was this fear; fear that if h... ...it bought him some time to get to South Carolina . And then, kind of th... ...who, and one of the people who I met in South Carolina , Ashley Baia, was one of the firs... ...Baia, who worked on the campaign in South Carolina . I went down there as a surrogate. Di... ...[laughs]. Right, so I went down to South Carolina as a surrogate for the campaign, an... ...when we were flying—I think it was South Carolina , going down, after the South Carolin... ...South Carolina, going down, after the South Carolina primary, we were headed to Atlanta fo... ...who was working on your campaign in South Carolina .” It may have been after Ne... ...story. Were you surprised by the win in South Carolina ? No, not at all. Jubilant by it, bu... ...community, and by the time we got to South Carolina , I think we had, notwithstanding th... ...[Laughs] That was very frustrating. South Carolina , it was a very important night. It wa... ...of this moment. Then we were off to South Carolina . Three weeks earlier, a young perso... ...going to talk about “Amazing Grace” in South Carolina . I wanted to ask if you had a sense... ...And then there was also Charleston [ South Carolina , mass shooting] that—you had to go t... ...that Black voters had, especially in South Carolina , at the time that there was too muc... Show more... Tina Tchen ...impression in Iowa, New Hampshire, in South Carolina , Nevada. And that would be the thin... ...So there was that. Then there was the South Carolina one. I didn't go to New Hampshire, bu... ...go to New Hampshire, but I did go to South Carolina . And Susan Sher, who is also a goo... ...protection on Saturday. We went to South Carolina . It's the first day I met Michae... ...the next day was in Hollywood, South Carolina , which is an African America... ...he was quitting school, and left for South Carolina , and did not go back to his colleg... ...American churchgoers from Hollywood, South Carolina , are sitting around the radio, an... Show more... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Sub-Saharan Africa Sub-Saharan Africa go to the Financial Crisis and the Economy Financial Crisis and the Economy go to the Women and Girls Women and Girls go to the Wartime Presidency Wartime Presidency go to the Atlantic Relations Atlantic Relations