Racism

August 26th, 1950 was the night that changed Myrtle Beach. It changed Charlie and the impact reverberated throughout the south.

There’s much mystery surrounding Charlie Fitzgerald and who he was before Myrtle Beach. Before he was Charlie Fitzgerald he was Lucious Rucker. So who is Lucious Rucker?

Charlie Fitzgerald loaned money to white folks in town to bend the rules in his favor. How long until he became a target?

Dance at Charlie’s Place wasn’t just dance; it captured the spirit of an era defined by both segregation and creativity. When white audiences arrived for the music, these moments sparked shifts that transformed Myrtle Beach and resonated far beyond its borders.

At the height of segregation when everywhere else was divided, Black and white people danced together to the biggest R&B acts of the time at Charlie’s Place.

In North America's largest medieval-style town, it’s not just architecture that needs some 21st-century renovation.

Renaming birds isn’t new, but this official change could be the start of something larger.

From bloodthirsty orchids to body-snatching pods, fictional flora are often symbols of societal fears.

Photographer Sheila Pree Bright wanted to find a new way of seeing the site and its connection to centuries of racism.

Once places of refuge, these Anglo-Indian bars are now institutions.

Rosa Slade Gragg wouldn’t let a racist restrictive covenant stand in the way of the Detroit Association of Colored Women’s Clubs.