Greenville’s History: A city built by immigrants
The storefronts, the churches, the neighborhoods and the downtown we brag about were built by people who came here from somewhere else, and they built them while being told they did not belong.
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Greenville’s History: Hattie Logan Duckett and the Phillis Wheatley Center
The new Phillis Wheatley Center opened at 121 Broad Street in 1924, in the heart of Greenville’s Black business district.
Greenville’s History: What Camp Sevier left behind
Wartime demand for cloth made the mills more profitable, and Greenville emerged more tied to textiles than before.
Greenville’s History: Josh White and his two Greenvilles
By the 1940s, White sang before national audiences about poverty, lynching, Jim Crow and the treatment of Black soldiers.