Caroliniana Columns - Fall 2013

Contents:South Caroliniana Library Receives Priceless 19th-Century Law Diploma and License of Richard T. Greener..... p.1 Report from the Director..... p.6 Letter from the Dean of Libraries..... p.6 South Carolina College in the 1870s as Seen by Belton O’Neall Townsend..... p.8 Embracing Change; Fulfilling the Dream Commemorating Fifty Years of USC Desegregation..... p.12 Library Receives Watercolors of Campus Scenes..... p.16 “Everybody that Was a Part of That Was Changed:” Isaac W. “Ike” Williams Talks about the 1963 Civil Rights March on Washington..... p.19 Carlisle Floyd Receives Honorary Doctorate at December Commencement..... p.20 Tri-State Archivists Conference Held in Greenville..... p.21 Society Acquires Nineteenth-Century Paintings for the Library..... p.22 “The Sustainers: Builders and Preservers of Civil Rights Sites in the United States”..... p.24 “Shivar Spring Company and Tom McConnell: A Shared Story”..... p.26 South Carolina Digital Newspaper Program Awarded Additional Funding..... p.29 Documenting the South Carolina Newspapers for the SCDNP..... p.29 In Memoriam..... p.30 Donors to the Allen Stokes Manuscript Development Fund..... p.33 George D. Terry and Lynn Robertson South Caroliniana Library Endowment Fund Established at the South Caroliniana Library..... p.34 Summer Scholars at the South Caroliniana Library..... p.35 Library Holds Annual Book Signing for South Carolina Authors..... p.38 “Accessing the New South: A Project to Enhance Access to Manuscript Collections in the South Caroliniana Library”..... p.39 Memorials & Honoraria..... p.40