Seperate Worlds: A Guided Tour of Black Columbia

On Thursday morning, after attending the lecture course on African American history, we left the USC campus in order to get a first hand impression of Columbia's African American history. and community Dr. Bobby Donaldson from USC's history department was our tour guide for the two hours we spent driving through the city and visiting various sights and neighbourhoods, such as the Mann-Simmons site, Benedict College and Allen University, and the South Carolina State House grounds, with both the controversial Confederate flag and the African American memorial on its grounds.  The tour offered an interesting overview over the city's history, why the city was, and to some extent still is, a city of "seperate worlds."

Walking through Columbia

The African American memorial on the State House grounds