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Strategies for Finding Employment After You Have Been Fired

Article Date
March 4, 2022

Written by Melissa Hatch

Looking for work after having been fired can be intimidating. You are filling out an online application and things are going well, and then there it is. THE question: Have you ever been fired? Do you answer honestly? Will it...

South Carolina's Capitation Tax on Free People of Color, 1756–1864

Article Date
January 28, 2022

For more than a century before the Civil War, the State of South Carolina levied an annual “head” or “capitation” tax on all “free persons” of African descent. Those residing in Charleston were required to pay an additional head tax to the city...

South Carolina’s First Public Lending Library in 1698

Article Date
July 16, 2021

A bronze plaque on the west side of St. Philip Street in urban Charleston informs pedestrians that the site of Memminger Elementary School once hosted “the first public lending library in the American colonies,” established in 1698. This phrase has...

SC Works offers job seekers virtual workshops in June

Article Date
June 9, 2021

CHARLESTON, S.C. - SC Works will offer a series of Virtual Employment Skills Workshops throughout the month of June. The workshops are free and open to all job seekers. Participants must register in advance. Click on the workshop title below to...

Street Auctions and Slave Marts in Antebellum Charleston

Article Date
January 22, 2021

Boisterous and pathetic auctions of enslaved people were once a familiar sight in early Charleston that often clogged busy streets and sidewalks. As urban congestion increased and public scrutiny from anti-slavery advocates grew in the second...