Rural South Carolinians taking advantage of the bookmobile coming through town. This bookmobile served African American children on Johns Island, South Carolina in 1950. Just a few years before this photo was taken, a man named Esau Jenkins started The Progressive Club on the same island. Among other community supports, Jenkins secured funding and legal representation for local African Americans and provided them with transportation to work and school that was difficult to otherwise obtain. Jenkins became a local civil rights activists for the Johns Island Gullah-Geechee community.
From the Images from the Records of the Charleston County Public Library Collection held by the Charleston Archive at CCPL.
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