because many were able to accept the devastating changes, but eventually moved on and hopefully found a new "place" while never forgetting their past. The town of New Bordeaux which was about 3 1/2 miles from the Savannah River in McCormick County, South Carolina, was founded by French Huguenots led by the Rev. John Louis Gibert in 1764 (Riley 10). These people located in this area, which was near the present Lake Thurmond, in order to escape religious persecution in France (Waters). Although
party and his ideology. Thurmond has been a strong influence on Southern Politics since his days as the Edgefield County superintendent of education. He has had a hand in most of the major events in the Southern political history of the 20th century. Strom Thurmond's career has been a reflection of the events in southern politics in several ways: his growing up in Edgefield South Carolina, his early politics on the matter of race, his sense of duty to the armed forces, and his Gubernatorial campaign
Willow Springs is neither a part of Georgia or South Carolina. It was an island that was uniformly inhabited by descendents of slaves and is uniquely set apart from the rest of the world. It was a community that was kept alive through oral tradition of collective memory. Both Willow Springs and Hilton Head are place where history and nature are inextricably mixed. Willow Springs' inhabitants were exempt from the laws of both Georgia and South Carolina, and they were free to govern themselves as they
1. The precipitating problems or symptoms. She started her journey to foster care and final Babcock Center because on September 19, 1955, an order from the probate court of McCormick County, she and her siblings, were removed from the custody of their parents, and the children 's Bureau of SC was appointed their guardian. Records indicated they have been living in deplorable circumstances. Parent were incarcerated at the time. Four of the children were located at Whitten Center, Patrice spent some
controversy over democratic values were a reoccuring theme that year, which exposed the US internal breakdown. After the eclipse on February 12th, Americans no longer feared the end of the world, but many were still anxious about the uncertanty of their counties fate. Prior to the eclipse on February 13, many Americans felt “a kind of vague fear, of impending danger-a prophetic presentiment of some approaching catastrophy” (5). Unfortunantly for the new leaders of the nation, they were left with many issues