The first integration of public higher education in South Carolina came at Clemson University. The student who successfully sued for admission with the help of his NAACP attorney, Matthew Perry (left) (see Matthew J. Perry, Jr.), was Harvey Gantt (right). In January 1963, Gantt was admitted to the spring term at Clemson, amid a crowd of reporters. Twenty years later, Matthew Perry had risen to become a federal judge in South Carolina--and Gantt was the mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina. Photograph by Vic Tutte.
Courtesy of "The State" newspaper.
Standards
- 5.4.CE Analyze the causes and impacts of social movements in the U.S. and South Carolina.
- This indicator was designed to foster inquiry into the role of South Carolina in the Modern Civil Rights Movement, to include the influence of court cases such as Briggs v. Elliot and Flemming v. South Carolina Electric and Gas. This indicator was also developed to promote inquiry into the relationship between national leadership, protests, and events and South Carolina leadership, protests and events, such as the Friendship Nine and the Orangeburg Massacre.
