Keen Teens Of The Columbia Chapter Of Jack And Jill Of America, INC. | History Of SC Slide Collection

The caption found on this photo reads: "The Keen Teens of the Columbia Chapter of Jack and Jill of America, Inc., a national black youth organization, attended the Teenage Regional recently held in Richmond, Virginia. The theme of this year's regional was 'Youth Speaks and the World Listens.' The group traveled by chartered bus and was accompanied by two Jack and Jill mothers, Mrs. Walker Solomon, and Mrs. Leroy Fair." The young man kneeling in the front row on the left is the future South Carolina astronaut, Charles Bolden, Jr. Photograph around 1960.

Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.