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Invisible no more, the African American experience at the University of South Carolina, edited by Robert Greene II and Tyler D. Parry ; foreword by Valinda W. Littlefield ; afterword by Henrie Monteith Treadwell - hardcoverInvisible no more, the African American experience at the University of South Carolina, edited by Robert Greene II and Tyler D. Parry ; foreword by Valinda W. Littlefield ; afterword by Henrie Monteith Treadwell

"Editors Tyler Parry (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) and Robert Greene II (Claflin University) have organized an edited collection that illuminates the integral role that African Americans have played at the University of South Carolina since its founding. The collection builds upon recent work, both at the University of South Carolina and other college campuses, that highlights the contributions that African Americans have made to these institutions of higher learning. What makes South Carolina College (later UofSC) unique among its peer institutions is the extent to which African Americans have remained integral to the University's story throughout its history. This transcends the era of slavery and includes the fact that during Reconstruction, the University was the only state institution in the South to desegregate. This vital and still underexplored period of the University's history is explored in several essays in the collection. Moreover, Robert Greene's essay, "Before 1963: Race, Education, and the NAACP Desegregation Campaigns at the University of South Carolina," examines the longer story of efforts to desegregate the campus in the twentieth century, a story that begins well before the first Black students were finally admitted in 1963. Later chapters examine the ongoing legacies of desegregation and continuing efforts, and obstacles, to making evident the role of African Americans on the UofSC campus. A final essay from Katharine Thompson Allen and Lydia Mattice Brandt makes a forceful call for the need to engage in deeper acts of racial reconciliation on campus, rather than merely being satisfied with superficial attempts to gloss over the past. The volume concludes with an afterword from Dr. Henrie Monteith Treadwell, one of three African American students who were the first to attend the University of South Carolina in the twentieth century"-- Provided by publisher

9781643362533

2021037436

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(OCoLC)1269425231