South Carolina's challenge to civil rights: The case of South Carolina State College, 1945–1954

Scholars have long debated the complicity of Southern white women after the Civil War in helping create a racialist and racist regional identity and denying or delaying civil rights for African Americans. These studies have largely focused on the activities of elite white women property owners, club members, and writers. Yet few scholars have examined college women's activities in this regard, particularly those of the eight public colleges for women established in the South between 1884 and 1908: Mississippi State College for Women (MSCW) (1884), Georgia State College for Women (1889), Winthrop College in South Carolina (1891), North Carolina College for Women (NCCW) (1891), Alabama College for Women (ACW) (1893), Texas State College for Women (TSCW) (1901), Florida State College for Women (FSCW) (1905), and Oklahoma College for Women (1908). Little studied today, these schools served as important centers of women's education in their states, collectively educating approximately 100,000 women before World War II and with combined enrollments exceeding that of the Seven Sisters schools for many years.

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“Eyewitnesses to a Tragedy”: How the Collegian, the Student Newspaper of South Carolina State College, Covered the 1968 Orangeburg Massacre

American Journalism ◽

10.1080/08821127.2021.1866420 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 38 (1) ◽

pp. 81-98

Author(s):

Dante E. Mozie

Keyword(s):

South Carolina ◽

Student Newspaper ◽

State College ◽

South Carolina State College

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Deferred Dreams, Defiant Struggles

10.3828/liverpool/9781786940339.001.0001 ◽

2018 ◽

Keyword(s):

South Carolina ◽

Civil Rights ◽

Civil Rights Movement ◽

Black Church ◽

African Ancestry ◽

Washington Dc ◽

Montgomery Bus Boycott ◽

Bus Boycott ◽

The Many ◽

Southern City

Deferred Dreams, Defiant Struggles interrogates Blackness and illustrates how it has been used as a basis to oppress, dismiss and exclude Blacks from societies and institutions in Europe, North America and South America. Employing uncharted analytical categories that tackle intriguing themes about borderless non-racial African ancestry, “traveling” identities and post-blackness, the essays provide new lenses for viewing the “Black” struggle worldwide. This approach directs the contributors’ focus to understudied locations and protagonists. In the volume, Charleston, South Carolina is more prominent than Little Rock Arkansas in the struggle to desegregate schools; Chicago occupies the space usually reserved for Atlanta or other southern city “bulwarks” of the Civil Rights Movement; diverse Africans in France and Afro-descended Chileans illustrate the many facets of negotiating belonging, long articulated by examples from the Greensboro Woolworth counter sit-in or the Montgomery Bus Boycott; unknown men in the British empire, who inverted dying confessions meant to vilify their blackness, demonstrate new dimensions in the story about race and religion, often told by examples of fiery clergy of the Black Church; and the theatres and studios of dramatists and visual artists replace the Mall in Washington DC as the stage for the performance of identities and activism.

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Jim Crow on Christian Campuses

The Bible Told Them So ◽

10.1093/oso/9780197571064.003.0004 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 68-97

Author(s):

J. Russell Hawkins

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

South Carolina ◽

Civil Rights ◽

Federal Government ◽

Jim Crow ◽

School Administrators ◽

Southern Culture ◽

Furman University ◽

White Evangelicals ◽

The Church

Chapter 3 highlights the continued influence of segregationist theology in evangelical circles even as explicit segregationist rhetoric began losing purchase outside that sphere in the mid-1960s. The centerpieces of this chapter are parallel narratives detailing the desegregation of Wofford College and Furman University, the respective flagship institutions of the Methodist and Baptist denominations in South Carolina. In describing the battles between school administrators who sought to desegregate their institutions and the laity of the state’s two largest denominations who resisted such measures, this chapter emphasizes white evangelicals’ continued opposition to black civil rights even as the broader southern culture was forced by the federal government to acquiesce on integration in institutions of higher education. Segregationist theology remained influential for a majority of white Baptists and Methodists who voted against desegregating the church schools in the mid-1960s and who withdrew their support when the colleges integrated against these Christians’ desires.

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