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A group of school children visited Columbia on Lee-Jackson Day in January around 1910. Dressed in the appropriate colors, they formed the Confederate flag on the steps of the South Carolina State...
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Murchison High School in Bennettsville, around 1910. Courtesy of the Howard G. Woody Postcard Collection.
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John J. Dargan was the principal and a teacher, and Gena Dargan a teacher, in Dargan's School in Darlington, photographed May 18, 1899.
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Founded in 1870 by the American Baptist Home Mission Society, Benedict College occupies a twenty-acre campus on Harden Street in Columbia, across Taylor Street from Allen University. As an important...
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The main building of Anderson College. Founded as Johnson Female Seminary in 1848, the school was later adopted by the Saluda Baptist Association, which planned to begin a Baptist institution for...
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An elementary school class at the Everett School in Winnsboro completes a class project in the 1950s. The Everett School was built in the Winnsboro Mills village in 1922. There had been a one-room...
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Booker T. Washington High School, Class of 1933, seated on the lawn in front of the main entrance to the school. Founded in 1916, the school was, until its closing in 1974, the hub of the separate...
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The first graded school in St. Matthews, photographed around 1910. A campaign to improve rural schools in the late 19th century replaced many one-room schools, in which all students were taught by a...
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The Avery Institute in Charleston. The Avery Normal Institute was established by the American Missionary Association in the spring of 1865, and initially named after the New York abolitionist Lewis...
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The original building of the Penn School photographed around 1890. The Penn School, located on St. Helena's Island, was the first school for freed African-Americans opened by northerners in the South...
