Actor, singer, and civil rights activist Paul Robeson speaks with fellow activist and California Eagle editor and publisher Charlotta Bass. Image from the Los Angeles Daily News, 1949 and courtesy of the University of California-Los Angeles Library.

From an early car company to textile mills and land development, South Carolina has been home to many well-known entrepreneurs.

• John Gary Anderson
• Charlotta Bass
• Mercer Silas Bailey
• Franklin G. Burroughs
• David Robert Coker
• William Gregg
• Joseph Lane Kirkland
• Edwin G.Seibels
• James C. Self
• Elliott White Springs