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Daniel Prince
Mar 31, 2023
Exhibit will be at the campus library until June 30
From April to June, USC Upstate will host a traveling civil rights history exhibit. The exhibition tells the story of South Carolina’s essential role in the American Civil Rights Movement. It will be on display in the USC Upstate Library, located at 150 Gramling Drive in Spartanburg. The “Justice for All” exhibition uses oral history recordings, news film footage, photographs, postcards, newspapers, and letters to highlight overlooked chapters in the history of the movement. The exhibition is organized by the University of South Carolina’s Center for Civil Rights History and Research.
Visitors will see interpretive panels that tell the story of the Civil Rights Movement, beginning in Reconstruction following the Civil War and continuing through the 1960s. Also on display will be photographs, letters and other materials from the movement in South Carolina's Upstate, items from collections housed in USC's University Libraries, Moving Image Research Collections, South Carolina Political Collections, Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, and the South Caroliniana Library.
Campus students can see the exhibit during all USC Upstate library hours. It will be open to the public through May 1 on Monday-Thursday from 7:30 a.m. to 10 p.m., Saturday from 10-5, and Sunday from 2-10. From May 2-June 30, it will be available to the public Monday through Friday from 8:30-5. The university notes that the library will be closed April 8-9. Several public events will be scheduled in support of the exhibition.