The death of Ruth Ann Butler sent shockwaves through the Upstate as political figures Jackson, McMaster and White offer condolences to the civil rights historian.

"She has completed her charge on this earth and has gone to be with God in eternal peace," said Jackson and the Rainbow PUSH Coalition in a statement provided to the Urban League of the Upstate.

A timely story of collective action, The First Rainbow Coalition tells this little-known chronicle of political struggle with insight and urgency using archival footage and interviews with those ...