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The fight against school segregation began in South Carolina, long before it ended with Brown v. Board

  • Written by Roy Jones, Professor of Leadership, Counselor Education, Human and Organizational Development; Executive director, Call Me MISTER, Clemson University
imageMillicent Brown, left, was one of the first two Black students to integrate a South Carolina public school, in September 1963.AP Photo

When it comes to the case of Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 Supreme Court decision that outlawed school segregation, the focus is often on Topeka, Kansas, the home of the Brown family and the school board...

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