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A.P. Williams Funeral Home is a historic African-American funeral home located at Columbia, South Carolina. It was built between 1893 and 1911 as a single-family residence, and is a two-story frame building with a hipped roof with gables and a columned porch. At that time, it was one of six funeral homes that served black customers.
In 1952, Fielding took charge of the day-to-day operations of the family funeral home business, becoming President and CEO of Fielding Home for Funeral Services. Founded in 1912 by Fielding’s father, Fielding Home for Funeral Services was the largest African American-owned and operated funeral home in the state of South Carolina. [2]
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Black burial grounds in Charleston, South Carolina, will soon receive the long-overdue care and protection that they need. The Preservation The post $50K federal grant equips Charleston to locate ...
The Smith family continued the mortuary business in the 1940s and a family named Collins bought it in the 1980s and renamed it Smith Collins funeral home until 2015. The Holliday House was a ...
Poole, Jason. "On Borrowed Ground: Free African-American Life in Charleston, South Carolina 1810-1861." Essays in History 36 (1994): 1-33. Powers, Bernard, Jr. Black Charlestonians: A Social History, 1822-1885. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press. Thomas, Richard W. "The Historical Roots of Contemporary Urban Black Self-Help in the ...
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Plymouth Congregational Church is a historic congregation founded by African Americans in Charleston, South Carolina. It was established in 1867. [1] Services were initially held at Avery Normal Institute, the city's first school for African Americans. The historic original church building is now a residence. [2]