State Senator Kay Patterson speak in 2014 at North Main Street Library during a 50th anniversary celebration of “Freedom Summer,” the historic and heroic Civil Rights work performed by youth ...

COLUMBIA — Former South Carolina Sen. Kay Patterson, who rose from cleaning offices at the segregated Statehouse to serving as a state legislator for over 30 years died Friday. He was 93.

Retired state Sen. Kay Patterson, a Democrat who represented Richland County, died at 93. “Sen. Patterson dedicated over ...

COLUMBIA — Kay Patterson, a longtime Columbia-area state legislator and one the first Black lawmakers to rise in the seniority ranks of post-Civil Rights era South Carolina, died early Dec. 13.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Former South Carolina State Senator Kay Patterson, who represented Richland County for decades and fought to get the Confederate flag taken off the State House dome, has passed ...