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By CAITLIN BYRD | The State | Published: March 7, 2021 CHARLESTON, S.C. (Tribune News Service) — Ken Gordon never kept a journal during his time at The Citadel. But no one, he explained more than 35 years later, can forget hell. When Gordon reported to the Charleston campus in August 1984, he found a South that refused to let go of its past. Confederate battle flags waved in the stands during home football games. Cadets marched to "Dixie" during Friday afternoon parades. Eighteen years had passed since Charles DeLesline Foster broke the color barrier in 1966 to become the first African A...

As The Citadel confronts racist past, a Black cadet shares his truth through fiction © Caitlin Byrd/TNS Ken Gordon, a 1988 graduate of The Citadel, poses for his senior portrait. CHARLESTON, S.C. — Ken Gordon never kept a journal during his time at The Citadel. But no one, he explained more than 35 years later, can forget hell. When Gordon reported to the Charleston campus in August 1984, he found a South that refused to let go of its past. Confederate battle flags waved in the stands during home football games. Cadets marched to "Dixie" during Friday afternoon parades. Eighteen years ha...