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After completing his undergraduate studies at Clark College in Atlanta, GA, James Felder served in the United States Army's Honor Guard Ceremonial Unit in Washington, DC. This honor was bestowed upon him as one of only ten Black Americans to serve in this...

Cecil Williams, who served as the official photographer for both Claflin University and South Carolina State, watched as Black students gathered in protest around the All-Star Bowling alley in Orangeburg, SC, 1968. Although racial segregation in public places had...

At 16 years old in 1962, LeRoy “Zke” Zimmerman finished high school and enrolled at South Carolina State University to study Mathematics. During a summer job delivering supplies between the all-white high school in Orangeburg, SC, and his own alma mater, Wilkinson...

When Elaine’s father filed a lawsuit to allow her to attend an all-white school, the Whittenberg family shocked the community and changed everything about their way of life.  Mr. Whittenberg lost his business, and, at times, thought he’d lose his daughter due to...

Being a Tuskegee University student during the Montgomery Bus Boycott - less than an hour away from campus - Grady Butler first felt the urge to participate in social justice initiatives. After graduating, he began seminary at Morehouse College Interdenominational...

Ninety-seven year old Mr. Wilfred J Walker, Sr. had been a Greenville, SC, resident since 1935 after graduating of Hampton Institute (University) in Virginia. He is credited with being the first African-American sports radio announcer in the state. He was the radio...

Dr. Margaree Seawright Crosby became the first African-American woman to receive a full professorship in Clemson University’s College of Education after earning her PhD. She is now a professor emerita there. But, in 1960, she and seven other high school and college...