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Photo by Jim Covington Sixty years ago—on September 11, 1963—Henrie Monteith walked through the doors of the University of South Carolina’s Osborne Administration Building and into history. She, along with Robert Anderson and James Solomon, broke the color barrier at the largest state-sponsored university, one that had held for nearly 90 years. Together they opened
A report says these Black SC leaders should have USC buildings renamed for them Lucas Daprile and Bristow Marchant, The State (Columbia, S.C.) Jul. 14—If the University of South Carolina moves forward with renaming several buildings on its campus whose namesakes are being re-examined with the passage of time, several prominent African Americans could be set to grace university buildings instead. The university history subcommittee of the commission examining building names agreed this week on 14 names of African Americans who could have buildings named after them if names ar...