Today I went to the Horry county archives at my campus. I searched the school’s library website and just put in some key terms like “Dimery, Bethel and Pine level. I found that my school library has “The Horry County Herald” on microfilm (https://www.archives.gov/preservation/formats/microfilming.html). I found two significant post in the research, the first was a story about a court case in the county. I was appalled to see the words “negro’ and “colored” in parts of these stories. Unfortunately, these terms were common in the rural south for the 19th and about three quarters of the 20th centuries. These people were treated as if they were immigrants, when in fact their descendants were the original settlers.
The next story I found concerned the Pine Level School (this is a place I hope to map soon; the site is overgrown by woods now). This school was built for the Waccamaw people to have a place to learn. The people were not allowed in Horry County public schools if they were not of white complexion. I find it appalling that these people went through so many hardships just to live normal lives. The Waccamaw people couldn’t even be proud of themselves without being shamed. Please let me know if you guys have anything that can be of use to this project.
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