Tag Archives: South Carolina

Rev. Gary Davis, The Harlem Street Singer (video)

Posted on January 24, 2013 by | Leave a comment

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Reverend Gary Davis, also Blind Gary Davis, (April 30, 1896 – May 5, 1972) was a powerful gospel and folk blues singer and masterful acoustic guitarist, “truly, one of the supreme talents to emerge from the Piedmont tradition” (Bruce Bastin, Red River Blues: The Blues Tradition in the Southeast [Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986, p. 330). Continue reading →

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Civil War Vet That’s Black Honored With Grave Marker

Posted on November 15, 2010 by | 1 Comment

Almost 100 years after his death and afew days after Veterans Day, a black Union Civil War vet from South Carolina finally has a veterans marker on his grave. The gravestone for Henry Benjamin Noisette was unveiled Thursday in a black Charleston cemetery. Continue reading →

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Hillary Heads to Harlem

Posted on January 21, 2008 by | Leave a comment

Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., speaks as Rev. Dr. Calvin O. Butts…

Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton attended services Sunday at a historic black church in Harlem, a day after her victory in the Nevada caucus and with a fresh challenge looming ahead of her in South Carolina. Continue reading →

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