Florence: A Renaissance Spirit: Civil Rights Movement | Carolina Stories - Episode 4

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Many returning to Florence after World War II saw clearly, possibly for the first time, a great injustice in their own community...segregation.

Brown versus Board of Education" changed race relations in America forever, as the United States Supreme Court struck down the country's separate-but-equal mentality.

A mayor's human relations committee was established in the mid-1960s.  The mayor appointed a committee of ten whites and ten blacks to meet.

As the '60s waned, racial discrimination in Florence was by no means a thing of the past, but the situation was greatly improved.