Clubs and Societies

• Clubs and Societies

• Etcher’s Club
• Carolina Art Association > Gibbes Art Gallery
• Poetry Society of South Carolina
• Salons and Discussion Circles
• Laura Bragg
• Alice Smith
• John Bennett

• “Nowhere in the north is there such complete sterility, so depressing a lack of all civilized gesture and aspiration.”

• Literature

• DuBose Heyward
• John Bennett
• Hervey Allen
• Josephine Pinckney
• Beatrice Ravenel
• Herbert Ravenel Sass

• “…. I would like you in Charleston ….. To speak for the South in poetry.”

• -- Harriet Monroe, 1922

• Theatre

• The Footlight Players
• The Dock Street Theatre

• Historic Preservation

• Susan Pringle Frost
• Alice and Daniel Smith

• Education

• Laura Bragg
• Mabel Pollitzer

• Suffrage

• Anita Pollitzer

Anita and the NWP

• Anita Pollitzer and the National Woman’s Party

"The Golden Lane."

• "A line of women dressed in white with yellow sashes and parasols, spaced four feet apart, stood along the curb beside their state suffrage banners on both sides of the street, forming a lane through which the Democratic delegates must walk . . . to the Coliseum on the opening day of the convention." 1916 Democratic Convention, St. Louis

• Music

• The Society for the Preservation of Spirituals
• “The Charleston”
• The Jenkins Orphanage Band

The Band Plays On

• Visual Arts

• Alice Ravenel Huger Smith
• Elizabeth O’Neill Verner
• Alfred Hutty
• Edwin A. Harleston
• Anna Heyward Taylor
• James Fowler Cooper

Prentiss Taylor, “Experience Meeting at Massodony AME”

• Prentiss Taylor, “Experience Meeting at Massodony AME”

Edwin Augustus Harleston

• Edwin Augustus Harleston

• 1882-1931

• Founded the NAACP Charleston Chapter

• Elected as group’s 1st president

• Civic leader and political activist

1933