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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

A Parent’s Perspective

A Student’s Perspective

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)

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

Flat Rock Greenville County • 4 teachers, 121 pupils • Grades 1-7 • Classrooms need adequate lighting & ventilation

School (Rosenwald)

• Water supply is inadequate School Outhouse

Teachers Greenville County

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

Sense of Pride

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

Second Hand Supplies

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 • Log cabin Built in 1899 • Used until 1954 • One teacher, no blackboards, and children sat on homemade benches • Used water from a church well

Greeley Institute Anderson County • Historic site honoring the original location of Greeley Institute • Founded June 14, 1870 • Mostly white teachers in the late 1800’s, then replaced with black teachers • Started by freed slaves through the support of the abolitionist Horace Greeley

Anderson County

Old South Fant Street School Anderson County • Built 1954 to replace the Greeley Institute • Located on 3 acres for the school, plus 2.5 acres for the playground • The current land is used for an early childhood development center

Jefferson Avenue Elementary School Anderson County • Built on the site of the Anderson city dump • Given by the city of Anderson for black education, as it was located in a predominantly black area • Contained 4 teachers, including the teaching principal •Currently houses the Jim Ed Rice Center

Focus on Practical Trades

White Schools

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

Greenville Students

Greenville High Greenville County

1941- Number one school in South Carolina

Teachers Greenville County

Pickens Mill Pickens County

• 1926-1953 • Textile school • Progressive school of that time

Easley High School Pickens County • Built in 1894; used until 1940 • Originally combined grade and high school • First class graduated in 1931 • Largest school in Pickens County

Anderson High School Girls School • Built on the original plot that housed the Southern Home School • Southern Home School was a 1 room school built in 1878 for white students •Used 1923 until 1961 • In 1951, “Girls High” changed its name to “Hanna High” after T.L. Hanna • Housed the Anderson County library through the 1990’s • Now home to the Anderson County Museum

Anderson High School Boys School • Opened in 1923 for the education of white males only • Building housed Boys’ High until 1962 • Currently houses the Hanna-Westside extension, offering vocational education classes

Anderson County

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.” -

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.

Busing video

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.”

School Integration Begins…

Researched & Presented by Justin Bramblett Amanda Brown Kelsey Darity Dennis Dempsey Nancy Machamer Heather Marion James Palassis Terrence Wilson

Special Thanks To… • Ms. Ruth Ann Butler • Mrs. Nancy Ann Ledford • Mrs. Wilma Jackson • Ms. Rosanne Morris, Dr. Betty McDaniel, & Dr. Henry Hunt-School District of Pickens County

Sources •

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Famous Greenville Firsts. Researched by Southwest Area Challenge Students; Compiled and edited by Linda Friddle with technical assistance from Leonette Neal. Greenville, SC. 1986.



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A History: The Schools of Pickens County. ISBN: 3-2964-00192-7234



Images of America: Easley. ISBN: 13-978-0-7385-6706-8



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The Desegregation Decision-One Year Afterwards (Summer 1955) pp. 327-332. Journal of Negro Education. Vol 24. No. 3.



A Description of the Buildings and Grounds of the Rural Schools for Negroes in Greenville County. Greenville County Council for Community Development. December 1936.



Profiles of Black Folks in Anderson County South Carolina . Gwendolyn Elease Anderson. The Reprint Company, Publishers Spartanburg, SC 1993



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