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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]
There are many Black cemeteries scattered throughout Charleston, and the Heriot Street cemetery, in particular, holds the remains of more than 2,000 African Americans buried there between 1865 and ...
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.
Others have South Carolina historical markers (HM). The citation on historical markers is given in the reference. The location listed is the nearest community to the site. More precise locations are given in the reference. These listings illustrate some of the history and contributions of African Americans in South Carolina.
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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 ...
Powers, Bernard E. "Community Evolution and Race Relations in Reconstruction Charleston, South Carolina." South Carolina Historical Magazine 101.3 (2000): 214–233. online; Taylor, Alrutheus Ambush. The Negro in South Carolina During the Reconstruction (Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, 1924), by a pioneer Black scholar. online.