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[[File:Some of the children who go to school half a day.jpg|thumb|Children workers {{circa|1912}}. Some children who worked in South Carolina textile mills went to school half a day and worked before and after school—and eight or nine hours on Saturday.]] | [[File:Some of the children who go to school half a day.jpg|thumb|Children workers {{circa|1912}}. Some children who worked in South Carolina textile mills went to school half a day and worked before and after school—and eight or nine hours on Saturday.]] | ||
Early in the 20th century, South Carolina developed a thriving [[textile industry]]. The state also converted its main agricultural base from cotton, to more profitable crops. It would attract large [[military base]]s during | Early in the 20th century, South Carolina developed a thriving [[textile industry]]. The state also converted its main agricultural base from cotton, to more profitable crops. It would attract large [[military base]]s during World War I, through its majority Democratic congressional delegation, part of the one-party [[Solid South]] following disfranchisement of blacks. | ||
In the late 19th century, South Carolina would implement [[List of Jim Crow law examples by state|Jim Crow laws]] which enforced [[Racial segregation in the United States|racial segregation]] policies until the 1960s. During the early-to-mid part of the 20th century, millions of African Americans left South Carolina and other southern states for jobs, opportunities, and relative freedom in U.S. cities outside the former Confederate states. In total from 1910 to 1970, 6.5 million blacks left the South in the [[Great Migration (African American)|Great Migration]]. By 1930, South Carolina had a white majority population for the first time since 1708.<ref name="info">[http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/us/south-carolina-history.html "South Carolina: The Decline of Agriculture and the Rise of Jim Crowism"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141210220713/http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/us/south-carolina-history.html |date=December 10, 2014 }}, infoplease (''Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia''), 2012</ref> South Carolina was one of several states that initially rejected the [[Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Nineteenth Amendment]] (1920) giving women the right to vote. The South Carolina legislature later ratified the amendment on July 1, 1969. | In the late 19th century, South Carolina would implement [[List of Jim Crow law examples by state|Jim Crow laws]] which enforced [[Racial segregation in the United States|racial segregation]] policies until the 1960s. During the early-to-mid part of the 20th century, millions of African Americans left South Carolina and other southern states for jobs, opportunities, and relative freedom in U.S. cities outside the former Confederate states. In total from 1910 to 1970, 6.5 million blacks left the South in the [[Great Migration (African American)|Great Migration]]. By 1930, South Carolina had a white majority population for the first time since 1708.<ref name="info">[http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/us/south-carolina-history.html "South Carolina: The Decline of Agriculture and the Rise of Jim Crowism"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141210220713/http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/us/south-carolina-history.html |date=December 10, 2014 }}, infoplease (''Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia''), 2012</ref> South Carolina was one of several states that initially rejected the [[Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Nineteenth Amendment]] (1920) giving women the right to vote. The South Carolina legislature later ratified the amendment on July 1, 1969. | ||