South Carolina Leaders

I delivered the "Positive Good" speech and supported the nullification of the "tariff of abominations".

• John C. Calhoun

• Andrew Jackson

• Strom Thurmond

• Richard Manning

I was President of the United States.

• John C. Calhoun

• Andrew Jackson

• Strom Thurmond

• Jesse Jackson

I ran as the Dixiecrat candidate for President of the United States and was SC's longest serving Senator.

• Charles Pinckney

• John C. Calhoun

• James Byrnes

• Strom Thurmond

I was the first female governor of South Carolina.

• Martha Washington

• Nikki Haley

• Angelina Grimke

• Modjeska Simkins

I was an important leader of the Civil Rights Movement from South Carolina

• Modjeska Simkins

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• John Lewis

• Rosa Parks

I am the first African American Senator from South Carolina.

• Robert Smalls

• Tim Scott

• Jesse Jackson

• Modjeska Simkins

I was a governor of South Carolina who helped to create Clemson (booo!) University.

• John C. Calhoun

• John Bull

• Ben Tillman

• Bob Clemson

I am a Civil Rights activist from SC who founded the Rainbow Push Coalition.

• Matthew Perry

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Jesse Jackson

• John Lewis

I was the daughter of a plantation owner who spoke out against slavery.

• Helen Calhoun

• Betsy Ross

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Angelina Grimke

I was the first African-American federal judge from SC.

• John Lewis

• Matthew Perry

• Harvey Gantt

• Thurgood Marshall