The official nickname for South Carolina is The Palmetto State, referring to the state tree (the sabal palmetto).
Eartha Mae Kitt is Eartha's real name
"Yella"(High yellow) is a negative term depicting any light skinned black as "golden and fairskinned". It is a color reference to the golden skin tone of some mixed-race people. The term was in common use in the United States at the end of the 19th century and the early decades of the 20th century, but is now considered obsolete and sometimes offensive.
Orson Welles once called her the "most exciting woman in the world."
Kitt keeps her mother's legacy alive with the home decor business, Simply Eartha, in her way to honor her mother's memory
