10/07/2026
On this day in 2018, the Benjamin James Mack marker was unveiled. The marker which stands at 5248 Ridgeway St in Columbia, was the home of the late Benjamin Mack, who was a key figure in the city, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and a colleague of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Mack was a graduate of SC State University and was a teacher at Lower Richland High School in the 1940s. He later worked as field secretary for the SCLC and worked alongside King, Andrew Young, and Septima Clark. He helped organize the 1963 March on Washington and the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign. The marker was erected by Ridgewood Baptist Church and the Richland County Commission.
