Palmetto Profiles documents the lives and accomplishments of the
inductees of the South Carolina Hall of Fame during its first forty
years. As Governor John C. West predicted in his dedication speech,
the Hall of Fame has indeed become a "vital and integral part of
the history and culture of South Carolina." Nearly ninety citizens
have been inducted since Apollo 16 astronaut Colonel Charles Duke,
Jr., became the first honoree in 1973. Each year one contemporary
and one deceased individual is recognized by the hall for
outstanding contributions to South Carolina's heritage and
progress. To date, inductees have included political leaders and
reformers, artists, writers, scientists, soldiers, clergy,
educators, athletes, and others. U.S. president Andrew Jackson,
authors Elizabeth Coker and Pat Conroy, jazz legend Dizzy
Gillespie, artists Jasper Johns and Elizabeth O'Neil Verner,
Catawba King Hagler, Generals Francis Marion and Thomas Sumter,
civil rights leaders Mary McLeod Bethune and Reverend Benjamin E.
Mays, U.S. senators J. Strom Thurmond and Fritz Hollings, and Nobel
Prize winning physicist Charles H. Townes are just some of the
representative South Carolinians memorialized in the Hall of Fame
for their lasting legacies in the Palmetto State and beyond.
Published on the fortieth anniversary of the opening of the South
Carolina Hall of Fame and drawn from biographical entries in The
South Carolina Encyclopedia, this guidebook presents concise
profiles of the inductees from 1973 to 2013. Palmetto Profiles,
like the Hall of Fame itself, serves as a tangible link to South
Carolina's rich and complex past to the benefit of residents,
visitors, and students alike. The volume also includes
illustrations of all inductees and a foreword by Walter Edgar, a
2008 Hall of Fame inductee, author of South Carolina: A History,
and editor of The South Carolina Encyclopedia.
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