A Thorn in the Side of Segregation: The Short Life, Long Odds, and Legacy of the Law School at South Carolina State College

Autor/inn/en	Moore, Alfred D., III; Anderson, Christian K.
Titel	A Thorn in the Side of Segregation: The Short Life, Long Odds, and Legacy of the Law School at South Carolina State College
Quelle	In: American Educational History Journal, 45 (2018) 1, S.71-89 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1535-0584
Schlagwörter	Law Schools; Black Colleges; Educational History; United States History; Racial Bias; School Segregation; Court Litigation; African American Students; South Carolina + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Racial discrimination; Rassismus; Rechtsstreit; African Americans; Student; Students; Afroamerikaner; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin
Abstract	The Law School at South Carolina State College, a black college located in Orangeburg, South Carolina, was founded in 1947 as a segregated school to keep black students out of the state's all-white law school. However, this small law school produced in its nineteen-year existence a generation of attorneys whose education and achievements outlived the era of "separate but equal." The Law School at South Carolina State College (known as "State College") was conceived in 1946 when John Wrighten, a World War II veteran, applied to the University of South Carolina (USC) School of Law and was denied admission based on his race. With the help of the NAACP's Legal Counsel, which sought to integrate segregated educational institutions, including professional schools, he sued the University (Dewitt 1998, 15-17). The Law School was one of a series of segregated law programs that opened in the 1930s and 1940s in the wake of "Gaines v. Canada," a case that in 1938 created a precedent where states opened black professional schools to prevent blacks from attending ones that were all-white (Finch 1981, 99). Between 1947 and 1966 when the Law School closed, fifty-one students graduated from the Law School. Despite the school's hasty formation, over its nearly twenty-year operation it possessed all of the components, albeit on a reduced scale, of a fully functional law program. Between 1951, when South Carolina required a written examination for the bar, and 1968 when the last Law School at State College graduate took the bar exam, twenty-nine of the fifty African Americans admitted to the South Carolina Bar graduated from the Law School (Burke 2017, 226-227). The graduates practiced nationally and internationally in locations such as Washington, D.C., Nigeria, and the U.S. Virgin Islands (Burke and Hine 2004, 36). This article explains why the Law School at State College was created, the nature of its organization and operations, and its legacy and place in the history of higher education. (ERIC).
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Update	2020/1/01