On June 4th the University of South Carolina, College of Arts & Sciences, will host a one-day symposium on South Carolina women — a special tribute to a group of intriguing and often unsung heroines in the history of the state and a celebration of the completion of an ambitious project, a three-volume anthology, South Carolina Women: Their Lives & Times. Together with co-sponsors, The Southeastern Institute for Women and Politics and The Alliance for Women, USC invites you to spend the day learning about these women, their contributions, and the times in which they lived.  

You are invited to an inspiring day of experts telling the carefully-researched tales of   South Carolina women from the Lady of the Cofitachequi who reigned in the 1500s to Chief Justice Jean Hoefer Toal who presides over the state’s Supreme Court today.  In between there will be lively accounts of enslaved and free black women in the Old South, plantation mistresses, abolitionists, Revolutionary and Civil War heroines, suffragists, civil rights leaders, politicians, preservationists, artists and scientists, even a stock car driver – a host of trailblazing Carolina women.  Take one day from your routine and steep yourself in the stories of women who helped build South Carolina.

Sponsored by The Alliance for Women and Southeastern Institute for Women in Politics. Hosted by the University of South Carolina.

For more information or to register, visit:  http://saeu.sc.edu/reg/symposium/