EXCLUSIVE EXHIBITS - Cecil Williams Photography LLC

EXCLUSIVE EXHIBITS FOUND ONLY AT CWCRM: The Cecil Williams South Carolina Civil Rights Museum offers historical exhibits, photos, artifacts, and documents not found in any other museum.

As a new museum, the first and only civil rights museum in South Carolina, the Cecil Williams South Carolina Civil Rights Museum's mission is simple: To pay tribute to the people who engaged in events between 1950 -1970; the era of the civil rights movement.

We believe we offer an important key to the past; guide to the present, and a window to the future.

EXCLUSIVE EXHIBITS & HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT COLLECTIONS

(Incomplete list of some of the exclusive exhibits)

1. BRIGGS FAMILY HISTORICAL BIBLE (1876)

2. THURGOOD MARSHALL ARRIVING IN CHARLESTON FOR BRIGGS CASE

3. CAMERA & ORIGINAL FILM USED TO PHOTOGRAPH THURGOOD MARSHALL

4.REV. J.A. DELAINE ORIGINAL LETTER DESCRIBING FLIGHT FROM SC TERROR TO FBI & PRESS

5. ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS OF JFK 1960 NEWS CONFERENCE ANNOUNCING CANDIDACY

6. JET MAGAZINE "PRESS PASS" USED BY CECIL WILLIAMS WHILE PHOTOGRAPHING HARVEY GANTT ENTERING CLEMSON

7. ORIGINAL SHELLS USED FEBRUARY 8, 1968 BY SC HIGHWAY PATROLMEN IN KILLING 3 STUDENTS AND INJURING 28 OTHERS DURING ORANGEBURG MASSACRE.

8. ORIGINAL PIN USED IN 1968 AT ALL STAR BOWLING LANES, SITE OF ORANGEBURG MASSACRE

9. ORIGINAL BOWLING BALL USED IN 1968 AT ALL STAR BOWLING LANES, SITE OF ORANGEBURG MASSACRE

10. SAM COOKE PHOTOS APPEARING AT SEGREGATED COLUMBIA SOUTH CAROLINA TOWNSHIP AUDITORIUM WHERE IN 1962 HE WAS INSPIRED TO CREATE, A CHANGE IS GONNA COME.

11.ORIGINAL TYPEWRITTEN NEWS RELEASE FROM JOHN H. MCCRAY, ONE OF MANY WHO PLAYED AN INFLUENTIAL ROLE IN THE FIGHT FOR JUSTICE FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS IN SOUTH CAROLINA AND ACROSS THE NATION. MCCRAY WAS FOUNDER, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER OF THE LIGHTHOUSE AND INFORMER, ONE OF THE TOP BLACK NEWSPAPER OF ITS DAY.

12. ORIGINAL 1943 ROYAL MANUAL TYPEWRITER OWNED BY REV. J.A. DELAINE.

13. OCTOBER 13, 1955 ORIGINAL NEWS RELEASE TYPEWRITTEN BY REV. J.A. DELAINE AS HE FLED SOUTH CAROLINA AFTER HIS HOUSE WAS FIRED UPON.

14. ORIGINAL 9/6/33 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION CERTIFICATION FOR TEACHERS CERTIFICATE ISSUED TO MATTIE B. DELAINE, WIFE OF REV. J.A. DELAINE.

15. ORIGINAL 1946 KODAK "BABY"BROWNIE CAMERA; FIRST CAMERA OWNED BY MUSEUM FOUNDER CECIL WILLIAMS THAT LAUNCHED HIS CAREER IN PHOTOGRAPHY.

15. ORIGINAL 1986 ARCHITECTURAL PLANS DRAWN BY CECIL WILLIAMS FOR PRESENT DAY CECIL WILLIAMS CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUM.

16. ORIGINAL 1975 PANTHER HAND-DRAWN BY BILLY GRAHAM, MARVEL COMIC BOOK ARTIST.

17. ORIGINAL CIRCA 1943 FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHS OF REV. J.A. DELAINE FAMILY IN FRONT OF HOME IN CLARENDON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA.

18. ORIGINAL JET MAGAZINE FRONT COVER OF CORETTA SCOTT KING PARTICIPATING IN 19969 CHARLESTON HOSPITAL WORKERS' STRIKE.

19. ORIGINAL 1940 SOUTH CAROLINA STATE COLLEGE BULLDOG YEARBOOK (Oldest Known)

20. ORIGINAL POSITION MANUAL CECIL WILLIAMS 1985 U.S. SENATE SENATORIAL CAMPAIGN

21. REV. J.A. DELAINE ORIGINAL BIBLE

22. PEARSON FAMILY BIBLE

24. REV. J.A. DELAINE ADDRESS BOOKS

25. ORIGINAL RIFLE BELONGING TO REV. J.A. DELAINE

26. REPLIA OF PODIUM THURGOOD MARSHALL SPOKE FROM AT CLAFLIN UNIVERSITY

27. DOLLS USED TO TEST CHILDREN IN CLARENDON COUNTY

28. SODA SHOP ITEMS FROM WEBBER SODA SHOP

29. 100 ORIGINAL SC THEMED CIVIL RIGHTS POSTERS

30. PIANO USED BY SCEA-PALMETTO EDUCATION ASSOCIATION

31. ORIGINAL CAMERAS USED BY CECIL WILLIAMS

32. ORIGINAL CAMERAS USED BY JERRY FRYER

Aerial View

A aerial view captured by a drone pinpoints the museum's location.

Front Entrance Portal

The Front Entrance, the Briggs - Delaine - Pearson Gallery is sponsored by the Quick family through a donation by Kathy and Ken Chenault.