How Can South Carolina Move Beyond the Civil War?

For Immediate Release
April 6, 2011

South Carolina ETV’s “The Big Picture” Seeks Common Ground
Columbia, SC…

Thursday, April 21 at 7 p.m., South Carolina ETV’s “The Big Picture” brings together a diverse array of organizations that rarely share the same stage to discuss how we commemorate the 150 th anniversary of the Civil War, and how we make peace with this chapter in our history and move past it.

Among the guests appearing on the show are:
Mark Simpson, SC Commander, Sons of Confederate Veterans∙
Jannie Harriot, SC African American Heritage Commission∙
Eloise Verdin, President, SC Daughters of the Confederacy∙
Blake Hallman, Ft. Sumter Ft. Moultrie Trust∙
Michael Allen, National Park Service∙
Eric Emerson, South Carolina Archives and History
Lonnie Randolph, South Carolina Branch President, NAACP

Hosted by Mark Quinn, The Civil War: “Finding Common Ground” presents a civil discussion that seeks to find agreement from seemingly opposing groups on many of the divisive issues surrounding South Carolina’s role in this dark chapter in our nation’s history.

The conversation will continue on Friday, April 22 at 1 p.m., with “ The Big Picture on the Radio,” heard on ETV Radio’s news stations.

Re-broadcasts of the television program will air on the following schedule:
ETV-HD:Sunday, April 24 at 12 noon
The SC Channel:Sunday, April 24 at 10 a.m.
ETV World:Sunday April 24 at 4 p.m.
Tuesday, April 26 at 4:30 p.m.
Friday, April 29 at 4:30 p.m.

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About Lisa Randle

Lisa is the Education Outreach Coordinator for Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture and the Site Coordinator for the Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World Program at the College of Charleston. Lisa is currently working on a PhD in historic archaeology at the University of South Carolina.

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