"The Citadel Conference on the Civil Rights Movement in South Carolina." MARCH 5-8, 2003
DR. CARMEN HARRIS AND DR. ANDREW MYERS ARE PRESENTERS AT THIS CONFERENCE
BOOK RECALLS THE HISTORY OF SPARTANBURG COUNTY'S TEXTILE INDUSTRY
The Hub City Writers Project recently published Textile Town: Spartanburg County, South Carolina. The book history of the textile industry in the county. It examines life in the mills from various perspectives and includes features on people associated with the textile industry. The book is edited by Betsy Wakefield Teter. Dr. Alice Henderson, Distinguished Professor of History Emerita was one of the contributors. The book is well done. It is a must read for anyone interested in the history of Spartanburg County or mill and textile history.
SPEAKERS ON TEXTILE TOWN
The Hub City Writers Project is sponsoring two speakers on the textile industry in Spartanburg
Thursday, Feb. 20, 7 pm -- Bruce Eelman, an expert on the Spartanburg business community during Reconstruction, is coming all the way from Siena College in New York to talk on "Railroads, Textiles & Reconstruction."
Thursday, March 6, 7 pm -- One of the finest historians to have come from Spartanburg County, David Carlton, is coming home to address the topic, "The Role of Textiles in Southern Industrialization." Carlton, who now teaches at Vanderbilt University, is the author of one of the seminal books on textile history, "Mill and Town in South Carolina."