Charleston County

commit nonviolent offences are deserving of jail time. The piece begins with the example of a young mother reported shoplifting groceries by store officials at a Walmart store in Charleston, South Carolina. This example of a nonviolent offence is a moral issue that our author, who is also a sheriff of Charleston County has encountered several times before. He then claims that if this encounter had taken years prior, that the outcome would have been different than what is was. However, luckily…

illiterate minorities in the South and expanded black education. Additionally, the growth of citizenship schools led to the rise of black voters in the South. “We taught them to read and write so that they could register and vote. To be able to vote in Charleston, you had to write your name cursive and read a section of the election laws.” Many states also required people to take a quiz or read a passage. This prevented most non-educated African Americans from voting. Setting up citizenship…

Britain had a few goals when it switched focus of the American Revolutionary War from focusing on the north to moving down south. The strategy was to defend the West Indies and capture the tobacco and rice growing areas in Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia. Another strategy was to raise for loyalist troops to help fight the Patriots. At the time this may have seemed like a good idea, but with the French becoming a more important role in the war Britain underestimated the Patriot French…

place in 1950 in Clarendon County, South Carolina.This where black children must walk as much as five or six miles to get to and from their run-down, segregated elementary school called Scott’s Branch Elementary. The black people started losing their jobs, and the KKK started to threaten them. The white people were doing everything in their power to make the black people feel inferior and to punish them for going against the whites. The superintendent of Clarendon County schools even took away…

A television episode about policing is not an accurate portrayal of an officer everyday work. On Sunday, April 16, 2017, I completed the assignment of riding for 8 hours with a law enforcement officer. My shift began was 7pm to 2am. I chose Charleston County Police Department because of its close to home and my familiarity with the area. I was assigned to officer Garcia. Officer Garcia has been…

In today’s time it seems that the world has become crazier by the day. It seems that it is almost monthly that the Islamic State known as ISIS and its followers has perpetuated some massive terrorist attack. The attacks are coming faster and in greater than ever before from Brussels, Paris, and even San Bernardino, Islamic terrorists are causing havoc in the western world. Unfortunately these not the only type of terrorists the United States has to worry about. Another type of terrorism would be…

has been on the news for a very long time now. From the Newtown Connecticut school shooting and the church shooting in Charleston South Carolina, to the school shooting in Roseburg Oregon. The country is at the point where people are wondering when the next shoot is going to be at. Which is forcing people to ask, Why are these shootings happening? The second amendment of the county, states that Any american has the right to bear arms. Which gives all american the right to own and keep a gun.…

Francis Marion was born near georgetown in berkeley county, south carolina. He was a leader of a revolutionary militia war in 1781. Francis was approached by one of the british officers to discuss an prisoner exchange. They were camping on snow's island south carolina. The british officer was so inspired by the way they overcome and commits to the cause. In spite of their lack of satisfaction provision, francis promptly switch there alliances and supported American independence. The patriots…

were given to White Americans and were not granted to African Americans. We as a country are very non open minded even though we have a lot of diversity in our nation and we are still not accepting them. There has been many shootings lately such as Charleston and Ferguson. These shootings have hurt our nation's progress a lot and it needs to stop. One of the main reasons racism is still a big problem in America is because of how each generation is passing it on to one another. Slavery in…

CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Following storms sweeping across the state Wednesday, the National Weather Service has determined some of the damage was caused by "straight-line" winds rather than tornadoes. Storms uprooted trees, destroyed buildings and caused power outages. More than 90,000 Appalachian Power customers in West Virginia were without power following the storm, and the company has asked crews from other states and companies of assistance in restoring services. According to the National…