so i'm going to turn over the mic to graham duncan who oversees manuscript collection at carolinian, a library, a world class special collections library that has been very helpful in getting processed. the papers of the williams furniture corporation, which is one of the sort of beneficiaries of the land that had been assembled, at least indirectly by people like francis bigler and franklin ferguson and all the workers who were there. and i would be remiss if i didn't start stop by saying that what williams furniture built was really quite unusual for the american south. we will talk more about it in a few minutes. but it was a major, major, major, major, major employer. and had an interracial workforce and unionized workforce. and this is in sumter, south carolina. that's really interesting. but there's a very good set of reasons why almost nobody knows the story and the story of the archives will help us to better understand. so graham. all right, thanks, jessica. like, not very often, but sir, my name is graham duncan, the head of collections at the south carolinian, the library.

so i'm going to turn over the mic to graham duncan who oversees manuscript collection at carolinian, a library, a world class special collections library that has been very helpful in getting processed. the papers of the williams furniture corporation, which is one of the sort of beneficiaries of the land that had been assembled, at least indirectly by people like francis bigler and franklin ferguson and all the workers who were there. and i would be remiss if i didn't start stop by saying that what williams furniture built was really quite unusual for the american south. we will talk more about it in a few minutes. but it was a major, major, major, major, major employer. and had an interracial workforce and unionized workforce. and this is in sumter, south carolina. that's really interesting. but there's a very good set of reasons why almost nobody knows the story and the story of the archives will help us to better understand. so graham. all right, thanks, jessica. like, not very often, but sir, my name is graham duncan, the head of collections at the south carolinian, the library.