South Carolina Stories: Rennard East, Patricia Lowman Pryor, Elizabeth Robeson

Published: March 20, 2015, 1 a.m.

b'The Truth About The Lowman Family Lynchings\\xa0in\\xa0Aiken, South Carolina\\n\\nRennard East is a hip hop artist/ songwriter from Philadelphia, PA and one of his\\xa0new passions is genealogy because he knew nothing\\xa0about his ancestors when growing up. \\xa0Patricia Lowman Pryor has always wondered about the truth concerning her grandmother Bertha Lowman and\\xa0will share her research and discovery behind this\\xa0story.\\n\\nHistorian Elizabeth Robeson - a leading researcher on the Lowman Family Lynchings will provide the political, and social order through which African Americans had to navigate a hostile and dangerous existence in the South.\\xa0Elizabeth Robeson holds the M.Phil in American history from Columbia University where she was a fellowship doctoral candidate studying under Professor Barbara J. Fields. The Lowman Family Lynchings is the subject of her dissertation and a book manuscript in progress.'