Justice for All: South Carolina and the American Civil Rights Movement

Justice for All features hundreds of items from the UofSC Libraries special collections tells the story of the state’s fundamental role in the national Civil Rights Movement.

Open through August 2, 2019, the exhibit uses oral history recordings, film clips, photographs, postcards, diaries and manuscripts to highlight largely overlooked chapters in the history of the movement. Justice for All is the work of the Center for Civil Rights History and Research at the University of South Carolina, in partnership with the University of South Carolina Libraries and the College of Arts and Sciences, with grant funding from South Carolina Humanities.

Visitors will see items from many collections at University Libraries, including South Carolina Political Collections, Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Moving Image Research Collections, the Music Library, and South Caroliniana Library. Major themes explored in the exhibit include voting rights, educational justice and desegregation.