Mayesville News

To commemorate Black History Month, we continue our intermittent series of profiles of African-American South Carolinians.

Where did the soundtrack for the civil rights era come from? Why was Fort Jackson almost closed? A look at some of the prominent figures, results and little-known facts surrounding South Carolina’s “New Reconstruction” era Activists Mary McLeod Bethune – Born in Mayesville, the daughter of former slaves, Bethune was an NAACP ...

By the 1920s, anyone who could was buying an automobile. Hamilton Carr Bland grew up in Mayesville, where gazing over those expansive flat fields broadened his horizons.

If John Slaton has his way, you won't hear much from Mayesville. "It's a quiet town," he said.