Jim Clyburn

The state was first

Brought on line in 1896, Thomas E. Miller was his first president.

He had already been defeated for Congress by George Washington Murray.

Well, he was not black, not African American.

He was the grandson, according to him, of Thomas, one of the signers.

of the Declaration of Independence.

Yes, sir.

Now, Hayward, he admits to having been born out of wedlock and being given up for adoption, and he was adopted by an African-American family down in what's now originally South Carolina, and they moved to Charleston, where he began to work, and later went to Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, an HBCU.

And when he graduated from Lincoln, other than going back to New York where he had come from before going to Lincoln, he decided to come back to South Carolina.

And he went to law school at the University of South Carolina.

Wow.

And that's another thing you learn in this book.

The University of South Carolina was the only Southern institution that was integrated during and after the Civil War.

Wow.

Well, thank you so much for doing that.

I hope that the people will find in this book, let's just say substance and sustenance.

to weather the storm of this country.

I do believe that we're going to get through these challenging times because I saw what, I have seen what these eight people did and did not do and what we can learn from it.

I really believe people understand it.

This book was written with that in mind.