Elizabeth Laney, M.A., is a historian and genealogist with 20+ years experience working in state parks, historic sites and public libraries. She specializes in the history of the Reconstruction Era and the history of the State of South Carolina with a particular focus on African American communities in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and South Carolina’s Black military legacy.
Laney has a Masters in History from the University of South Carolina and a Masters in Museum Studies from George Washington University. She has previously worked at Redcliffe Plantation State Historic Site (Beech Island, SC), Drayton Hall Plantation (Charleston, SC), the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site (Washington, DC) and the Colleton County Memorial Library (Walterboro, SC). She has been published in Ancestry Magazine, the Journal of the SC Historical Association and several other publications. She has worked for the Institute for the Study of the Reconstruction Era at USC Beaufort ...
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