Titus Duren | Civil Rights In S.C.

Interviewed by Juli Cross, A.C. Flora High School and Kevin Baxter, Scott's Branch High School

Titus Duren was on of the first minority students to enter Clemson University following desegregation. He went on to become the first black principal at Edisto High School in Orangeburg, SC, and later became the first black principal at Lower Richland High School in Hopkins, SC.

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