South Carolina, United States - Obama Presidency Oral History Back South Carolina, United States Index / Locations Transcripts Anna Deavere Smith ...a bankrupt and homicide-ridden city; South Carolina , up and down what was called th... Ray LaHood ...on a small plane that took off from South Carolina , landed in an ice storm—not landed... Karen Richardson ...in the Senate office and then gone to South Carolina —or, no, further down, actually. Let'... ...a bump, and you sort of—New Hampshire, South Carolina in the bag. Thankfully, you had Davi... ...the campaign hadn't bubbled up yet, and South Carolina being kind of a turning point there... ...and that's what it was. Then you get to South Carolina and things change a little bit. Now... ...then you had Super Tuesday and you had South Carolina , where things shifted a little bit. ... ...do remember it becoming a little—also, South Carolina has a particular history. You're kin... ...just got a little uglier [laughs] in South Carolina , and you felt it. And I think tha... ...like, Oh, this is what's happening in South Carolina , got it. Not everywhere. But it di... ...period where at this point we are past South Carolina , past Super Tuesday. I had gone t... ...Wright and race was even—you had South Carolina , but then you go a month, and he ha... ...through it, but, coming out of that South Carolina experience and then the rest, th... Show more... Aditi Hardikar ...then, of course, in the eulogy in South Carolina ? When you put it that way, wow. Wha... Gautam Raghavan ...at Mother Emanuel Church [Charleston, South Carolina ]. There were these moments o... James Clyburn ...Representatives as a representative for South Carolina 's Sixth Congressional District sinc... ...from Washington, DC, today? Columbia, South Carolina . Columbia, South Carolina. Wonderful... ...Columbia, South Carolina. Columbia, South Carolina . Wonderful. So I wanted to open us u... ...no Black person had been elected from South Carolina since 1897. So it was ninety-fiv... ...to one man, one vote, what they did in South Carolina was to just go all over the stat... ...to Brown started in 1948, in Summerton, South Carolina —Clarendon County, only twenty-tw... ...in 1948 is when Black schoolteachers in South Carolina challenged teacher pay. Black teacher... ...So the court case was going on in South Carolina , one in Virginia, one in Washington... ...these lawsuits. And in Sumter, South Carolina , where I was growing up, the NAACP wa... ...Matthew Perry came to Orangeburg [ South Carolina ] to defend us. And that's when I me... ...state. So if Mary Jones from Wellman, South Carolina , would get arrested, Mary Jones's nam... ...In fact, when he was inducted into the South Carolina Hall of Fame, he requested that I giv... ...He says that when he was campaigning in South Carolina , you told him to visit J. V. Marti... ...yes. That's the school up in Dillon [ South Carolina ]. I didn't remember what the name o... ...a very important force. And so the South Carolina cosmetology association, she becam... ...got to have fifty percent plus one in South Carolina . If I was in New York, New York ha... ...I would have been elected. But in South Carolina , I wasn't. But the foundation was i... ...away from the following counties. Now, South Carolina has forty-six counties, and there wer... ...were the ten majority-Black counties in South Carolina . And they went on to say why. Becaus... ...[B.] Williams, who served in the South Carolina state senate for about fifty years... ...one was from a lady over in Florence [ South Carolina ], who told me that she sat up waitin... ...who has served as US representative for South Carolina 's Sixth Congressional District sinc... ...during today's session? Columbia, South Carolina . Columbia, South Carolina, onc... ...Columbia, South Carolina. Columbia, South Carolina , once again. Thank you. I look forwar... ...of your state, Virginia, and my state, South Carolina , I am never going to agree to bloc... ...the sea islands of Georgia, Florida, South Carolina , and North Carolina, what we cal... ...I was on Monday, or Johns Island [ South Carolina ] and James Island [South Carolina]... ...[South Carolina] and James Island [ South Carolina ], where I'll be tomorrow, talkin... ...I was running the state agency here in South Carolina , and he was in state legislature dow... ...a piece of legislation we had in South Carolina . I went down to Atlanta to spend tim... ...I was in Charleston when I—Charleston, South Carolina , not Charleston, West Virginia. But ... ...West Virginia. But I was in Charleston, South Carolina , at the time that I made thos... ...think that as strongly now, being that South Carolina still hasn't accepted the federa... ...lot of other Southern states, including South Carolina . And so it's a civil rights issue... ...even if we have not adhered to it in South Carolina , just like we don't adhere to all th... ...to all the voting rights stuff in South Carolina , which I think is a civil right... ...people who live in these states like South Carolina going forward. I still think we need t... ...I got elected—I had done something in South Carolina that people thought was prett... ...race, running for Congress. And in South Carolina , we have a fifty percent plus on... ...that the first time I ran statewide in South Carolina . I ran for secretary of state. I le... ...of my head. He spent a lot of time in South Carolina . He was a protégé of what's-his-nam... ...run these nasty elections down here in South Carolina . Not Paul. Hmm, what's hi... Show more... Darrell Padgett ...There was a deputy sheriff out of South Carolina —based upon his communication with m... Terrence Wise ...the military, at Fort Jackson back in South Carolina ; he'd be up early. Both of them woul... ...Lindsey Graham, from my home state of South Carolina , and hearing folks on the other sid... ...talking about, “Well, come back to South Carolina . We'll treat you—” [imitates accent... ...We'll treat you—” [imitates accent] “ South Carolina doesn't even have a minimum wage in th... Anthony Foxx ...presence as a border city to South Carolina —is when you're talking to the medi... 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