Orangeburg Times (Orangeburg Court House [S.C.])
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
184 issues from 1877 to 1881, published in Orangeburg, South Carolina, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Orangeburg Times and Democrat (1881-present) served as a portal into Orangeburg County, located in the Midlands region of South Carolina, during a time of action and reaction, transition and stasis. The newspaper itself came into being as the result of a series of mergers and ownership changes over a period of almost 15 years. At various times, its proprietors published it as a daily, semiweekly, triweekly, and weekly paper. Even its political orientation alternated between Democrat and Republican.
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Orangeburg County embraced numerous contradictions. Its citizens had elected African Americans to the South Carolina General Assembly as late as 1886–a full ten years after the end of Reconstruction–at the same time as its white leaders actively sought to restrict voting rights. It led the nation and state in cotton production at the same time as two of its colleges, Claflin University and South Carolina State Agricultural and Mechanical College (now South Carolina State University), played critical roles in establishing South Carolina’s African American middle class. Significant events included: the gerrymandering of Congressional districts in 1882 to diminish the power of African American voters; the establishment of a graded school in 1890; and the creation of Aiken and Calhoun Counties from portions of Orangeburg, Barnwell, Edgefield, and Lexington Counties in 1871 and 1908.
Several men who were closely associated…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Orangeburg, South Carolina, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress