School Integration
Two perspectives of “Sit Ins.”
Legislation
Amendments
• 14th Amendment- rights of citizenship, due process and equal protection of the laws. • 15th Amendment- right to vote regardless on that citizen's race or color.
Plessy v. Ferguson
• 1896 legislation creating the idea of “separate but equal”
Three Perspectives of integration
A Teacher’s Perspective
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A Parent’s Perspective
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A Student’s Perspective
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Colored Schools
Allen Elementary School Greenville County • First Black school in Greenville County • Established by Rev. Charles T. Hopkins in 1866 • Built from materials taken from an abandoned army storehouse • Employed Greenville’s first black teachers (2 white teachers as well)
Teachers Greenville County
Flat Rock Greenville County • 4 teachers, 121 pupils • Grades 1-7 • Classrooms need adequate lighting & ventilation
School (Rosenwald)
• Water supply is inadequate School Outhouse
Sterling High School Greenville County • Established in 1869 • Only public school for blacks in Greenville for years • 1940s - extended grades to 12 years and broadened curriculum
Students Greenville County
Fountain Inn Greenville County
•1928- First Negro school in Fountain Inn area •Community growth = school additions •1948-1953 became Fountain Inn Colored High School
A. J. Whittenberg • “The children of our race were brushed aside so long and not getting a proper education. Our children were riding three to four hours every day on buses, and on the way they were passing a lot of white schools to get to the all-Black schools. We just felt they were passing the doors of schools they should be allowed to attend.” -
Fountain Inn Colored High School Greenville County
Busing video
Soapstone Pickens County • First Negro school in Pickens; opened in 1870 • School held in this log cabin until it rotted down • Kerosene lamps used for lighting
Built in 1929
• Water from a nearby residence
Brights Station Pickens County • First built in 1902 out of slabs with a rock chimney; used as both a church and a school • 2 room wooden structure erected in 1936 • 1 teacher school, grades 17 • One room used as a classroom; other room used as a kitchen/lunch room
Built in 1936
Clearview/Simpson Pickens County • 1900- 1927 Privately owned, 1 room structure • Running water but outdoor toilets • Largest Negro school in the county • Accredited in 1944
Clearview Basketball Pickens County
Rosewood
Liberty Jr. And Sr. Colored School
Pickens County • 1906-1968 • Grades 1-8 until 1932 • Became an elementary school in 1954 • Merged with Liberty Elementary in 1969
Holly Springs Pickens County • Built in 1899; used until 1954 • One teacher, no blackboards, and children sat on homemade benches • Used water from a church well
Old South Fant Street School Anderson County
Anderson County
Anderson County
Anderson County “Negro” Schools
White Schools
Teachers Greenville County
Greenville High Greenville County
1941- Number one school in South Carolina
Greenville Students
Paris High School Greenville County • First building was a small, two room wooden structure • 1926 - brick building built • 1930 - 235 students & 10 teachers • Up to 11th grade taught until 1949
Liberty High School Pickens County
Class of 1913
Easley High School Pickens County • Built in 1894; used until 1940 • First class graduated in 1931 • Largest school in Pickens County
School Library Easley
Pickens Mill Pickens County
• 1926-1953 • Textile school • Progressive school of that time
Anderson High School Girls School
Anderson High School Boys School
Integration Legislation
Briggs v. Elliott
• 1952 - Clarendon County, South Carolina suit over school bus transportation • 1954 - Combined with 4 other suits to form Brown v. Board of Education.
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
• Overturned earlier rulings going back to Plessy v. Ferguson. • Unanimous (9-0) decision stated that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.”
The beginning of
School Integration
Researched & Presented by Justin Bramblett Amanda Brown Kelsey Darity Dennis Dempsey Nancy Machamer Heather Marion James Palassis Terrence Wilson
Bibliography • A History: The Schools of Pickens County • Images of America: Easley
ISBN 33-2964-00192-7234
ISBN 13-978-0-7385-6706-8
• Pickens County Library System • A special thanks to Ms. Rosanne Morris, Dr. Betty McDaniel, and Dr. Henry Hunt of the School District of Pickens County