South Carolina 2025-2026 Regular Session Status: Passed House Bipartisan · 3 R · 2 D cosponsors

H 3787 — John Stroman sympathy

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    Passed House
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    Passed Senate
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    To Executive
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    Enacted

This bill has passed the House. Introduced January 28, 2025. It now moves to the second chamber.

Next likely step: consideration and a floor vote in the Senate.

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  • 122 sponsors

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Summary

A HOUSE RESOLUTION TO EXPRESS THE PROFOUND SORROW OF THE MEMBERS OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES UPON THE PASSING OF CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST JOHN WESLEY STROMAN OF ORANGEBURG COUNTY AND TO EXTEND THEIR DEEPEST SYMPATHY TO HIS LARGE AND LOVING FAMILY AND HIS MANY FRIENDS.

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28, 2025) - South Carolina Legislature Online South Carolina General Assembly126th Session, 2025-2026Bill 3787Indicates Matter StrickenIndicates New Matter(Text matches printed bills.
Document has been reformatted to meet World Wide Web specifications.)                 A house RESOLUTION   to EXPRESS THE PROFOUND SORROW OF THE MEMBERS OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES UPON THE PASSING OF Civil Rights Activist John Wesley Stroman OF Orangeburg COUNTY AND TO EXTEND THEIR DEEPEST SYMPATHY TO HIS LARGE AND LOVING FAMILY AND HIS MANY FRIENDS.
  Whereas, the members of the South Carolina House of Representatives were saddened to learn of the death of John Wesley Stroman at the age of eighty-one on Sunday, October 6, 2024;
and   Whereas, born in Orangeburg on November 25, 1942, he was the son of Johnetta Maxwell and Moses Clay Stroman.
As a toddler, he was taken to Savannah where he was reared by his maternal grandparents, John and Emma Maxwell;
and   Whereas, young John was educated in the public schools of Savannah, Georgia, graduating from Beech High School in 1960.
On St.
Patrick's Day of that year, he became involved in the Civil Rights Movement when a white man pushed a black girl, and she struck back, jumping on him.
Blacks and whites started fighting and disrupted the parade.
Mr.
Stroman was among the group of Blacks rounded up by the police, placed into a paddy wagon and taken to jail;
and   Whereas, in 1963, he enrolled as a freshman at South Carolina State College in Orangeburg.
At that time, the Civil Rights Movement was challenging the segregated society even more.
In 1967, Stroman and two other students started the Student Action Committee, a civil rights organization, on the campus of South Carolina State.
They were very instrumental in turning the wheels of justice at South Carolina State and in the State of South Carolina.
Their movement, known as "The Cause," focused on grievances at South Carolina State College;
and   Whereas, the most notable event of Mr.
Stroman's collegiate life was the students' effort to integrate the All-Star Triangle bowling alley on Russell Street.
On February 8, 1968, state police opened fire on a group of about 200 unarmed student protestors on the campus of South Carolina State.
The Orangeburg Massacre claimed the lives of three students and caused injury to some twenty-eight others;
and   Whereas, Mr.
Stroman went on to graduate from South Carolina State where he earned a bachelor's degree in professional chemistry in 1969 and later, a master's degree in mathematics education in 1976.
He enjoyed a twenty-nine-year career as a teacher of mathematics and chemistry at Edisto High and Elloree Elementary schools before going to Walterboro where he taught math at Colleton High School.
He continued to remain active in civil rights and community events with memberships in the NAACP, the Concerned Citizens of District 96, and as a member of Masjid Taqwa, the Islamic Center and place of worship in Orangeburg;
and   Whereas, Mr.
Stroman's decades-long service to the Civil Rights Movement was honored in June 2010 as the Edisto Drive community renamed the old Blue Light Cafe as The John W.
Stroman Senior Citizen Center.
This became a location for seniors to congregate, enjoy activities, and serve as mentors to a younger population.
The center has since been renamed The Edisto Drive Senior Citizens Center;
and   Whereas, together with his beloved wife, Mary Cox Stroman, he reared three fine children:
Mossi Stroman of Orangeburg, Zakiyyah Stroman of Blythewood, and Khaleelah Stroman of Aiken.
His children blessed him with the affections of five loving grandchildren:
Zaiid, Khaleel, LeeLan, ZaLeeah, and Jaycceon;
and   Whereas, the members of the South Carolina House of Representatives are grateful for the life and legacy of John W.
Stroman and for the example of service and courage he set for all who knew him.
Now, therefore,   Be it resolved by the House of Representatives:
  That the members of the South Carolina House of Representatives, by this resolution, express their profound sorrow upon the passing of Civil Rights activist John Wesley Stroman of Orangeburg County and extend their deepest sympathy to his large and loving family and his many friends.
  Be it further resolved that a copy of this resolution be presented to the family of John Wesley Stroman.
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What does H 3787 do?
A HOUSE RESOLUTION TO EXPRESS THE PROFOUND SORROW OF THE MEMBERS OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES UPON THE PASSING OF CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST JOHN WESLEY STROMAN OF ORANGEBURG COUNTY AND TO EXTEND THEIR DEEPEST SYMPATHY TO HIS LARGE AND LOVING FAMILY AND HIS MANY FRIENDS.
Who sponsors H 3787?
H 3787 is sponsored by Murphy, Chris, May, Robert J., III, Representative Jerry N. Govan, Jr., Representative Terry Alexander, Representative Carl L. Anderson, Representative Lucas Atkinson, Representative William H. Bailey, Representative Nathan Ballentine, Representative Justin T. Bamberg, Representative Bruce W. Bannister, Representative Heather Bauer, Representative Thomas Beach, Representative Beth E. Bernstein, Representative Phillip Bowers, Representative Jeff Bradley, Representative Gary S. Brewer, Jr., T. Case Brittain, Jr. (Republican), Representative James Mikell "Mike" Burns, Representative Joseph M. "Joe" Bustos, Representative Paula Rawl Calhoon, Representative Micajah P. "Micah" Caskey IV, Representative Donald G. "Don" Chapman, Representative William M. "Bill" Chumley, Representative William "Bill" Clyburn, Representative Gilda Cobb-Hunter, Representative Neal A. Collins, Representative Brandon L. Cox, Representative Heather Ammons Crawford, Representative April Cromer, Representative Sylleste H. Davis, Representative Chandra E. Dillard, Representative Adam L. Duncan, Representative Sarita L. Edgerton, Representative Shannon S. Erickson, Representative Cally R. "Cal" Forrest, Jr., Stephen D. Frank (Republican), Representative Craig A. Gagnon, Representative Kambrell H. Garvin, Representative Gil Gatch, Representative Daniel Gibson, Representative Leon D. "Doug" Gilliam, Representative Wendell G. Gilliard, Representative Thomas Lee Gilreath, Representative Hamilton R. Grant, Representative Thomas Duval "Val" Guest, Jr., Representative Brandon Guffey, Representative Patrick B. Haddon, Representative William "Bill" Hager, Representative Kevin Hardee, Representative Robert J. "Rob" Harris, Representative Christopher R. "Chris" Hart, Representative Thomas F. "Tom" Hartnett, Jr., Representative Charles V. Hartz, Representative Jackie E. "Coach" Hayes, Representative William G. "Bill" Herbkersman, Representative Lee Hewitt, Representative David R. Hiott, Representative William M. "Bill" Hixon, Representative Harriet A. Holman, Representative Lonnie Hosey, Representative Leon Howard, Representative William C. "Chris" Huff, J.E. Johnson, J.L. Johnson, Representative Wendell K. Jones, Representative Wallace H. "Jay" Jordan, Jr., Representative John Gregory "Jay" Kilmartin, Representative John Richard C. King, Representative Roger K. Kirby, Representative Kathy Landing, Representative M. Brian Lawson, Representative Thomas R. "Randy" Ligon, Representative Steven Wayne Long, Representative Phillip D. Lowe, Jason Luck (Democrat), Representative Josiah Magnuson, Representative David Martin, Henderson-Myers, Rosalyn D., Representative Donald Ryan McCabe, Jr., Representative John R. McCravy III, Representative Annie E. McDaniel, Representative Timothy A. "Tim" McGinnis, Representative Cody T. Mitchell, Representative W. Scott Montgomery IV, Representative JA Moore, Representative Travis A. Moore, Representative T. Alan Morgan, Jr., Representative Dennis C. Moss, Representative Mike M. Neese, Representative Brandon Newton, Representative Wm. Weston J. Newton, Representative Melissa Lackey Oremus, Representative Jordan S. Pace, Representative Fawn M. Pedalino, Representative Thomas E. "Tommy" Pope, Representative Luke S. Rankin, Representative Robert T. Reese, Representative Michael F. Rivers, Sr., Representative Robby Robbins, Representative Seth Rose, Representative J. Todd Rutherford, Representative Richard Blake Sanders, Carla M. Schuessler (Republican), Representative Heath Sessions, Tiffany R. Spann-Wilder (Democrat), Representative Leonidas E. "Leon" Stavrinakis, Representative Bill Taylor, Representative James E. Teeple, Representative Jackie R. Terribile, Representative David Vaughan, Representative J. David Weeks, Representative Elizabeth "Spencer" Wetmore, Representative Joseph S. "Joe" White, Representative William R. "Bill" Whitmire, Representative Paul B. Wickensimer, Representative Robert Q. Williams, Representative Mark N. Willis, Representative Chris Wooten, Representative Richard L. "Richie" Yow, Representative G. Murrell Smith, Jr., and Representative Marvin "Mark" Smith.
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