desegregation

Three new historical markers have been unveiled in a South Carolina community to commemorate two of the state's early legal battles against segregated schools. WIS-TV reports the Summerton Community Action Group placed two markers at local sites with ties to the Briggs vs. Elliott case in 1950 that demanded equal access to buses for children attending all-Black schools. The third marker recalls the 1948 Levi Pearson v. County Board of Education case in which the NAACP attempted an earlier challenge against inequalities in busing. The Briggs case went on to become part of the litigation that resulted in the landmark Supreme Court decision Brown vs. Board of Education that found racial segregation in schools was unconstitutional.

Four years before the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education, a federal judge in Charleston hatched his secret plan to end…

Four years before the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education, a federal judge in Charleston hatched his secret plan to end…

In the Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln spoke of the need to conclude “the unfinished work which they who fought here so nobly advanced.” In his second…

"D" is for Dixiecrats. Dixiecrats were a political party organized in 1948 by disgruntled white Southern Democrats dismayed over their declining influence…

“C” is for Citizens’ Councils. Founded in 1954, in Indianola, Mississippi, Citizens’ Councils quickly spread across the South. The organization promoted a…

Immortalized in the writings of his most famous student, best-selling author Pat Conroy, veteran education administrator William E. Dufford has led an the…

In 1968 state troopers gunned down black students protesting the segregation of a South Carolina bowling alley, killing three and injuring 28. The…

(Originally broadcast on 03/08/19) - On February 12, 1946, Sergeant Isaac Woodard, a returning, decorated African American veteran of World War II, was…

(Originally broadcast 06/01/18) - Richard Theodore Greener (1844–1922) was a renowned black activist and scholar. The first black graduate of Harvard…