Explore the lives and suffrage work of the Rollin sisters of South Carolina through a film and panel discussion sponsored by South Carolina ETV and others. 

Despite their inability to vote or hold political office, Francis, Charlotte, Catherine, Marie Louise, and Florence Rollin, who were born to an aristocratic, free Black family in Charleston, were among the most influential people in South Carolina politics. ETV’s recent documentary, SISTERHOOD—The Rollin Sisters: Reconstruction Through 1895, examines the sisters’ efforts in Columbia and beyond, and their dreams that were center stage before being crushed by the fall of Reconstruction.

Rollin descendent Carol Ione Lewis and historians Drs. Valinda Littlefield and Marjorie Spruill, a League member,  will join moderator Beryl Dakers for a panel discussion after the film.