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 ...

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.

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

Kay Patterson, Who Rose From Janitor at Segregated South Carolina Capitol to State Senator, Dies COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Former South Carolina Sen. Kay Patterson, who rose from cleaning offices at ...

Patterson was convicted in September 2011 for the 2006 murder of Kay Harrelson, 51, and sentenced to life in prison. The jury reached a unanimous decision after five days of trial and an hour and ...

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, S.C. — Former South Carolina senator Kay Patterson, who rose from cleaning offices at the segregated Statehouse to serving as a state legislator for over 30 years died Friday.