South Carolina State University
(Marker Front):
S.C. State University was founded in 1896
as the Colored Normal, Industrial,
Agricultural & Mechanical College of S.C. with its
origins in the Morrill Land Grants Acts of
1862 and 1890 providing for land-grant
colleges. Intended "for the best education
of the hand, head, and heart of South
Carolina's young manhood and womanhood
of the Negro race," it became S.C. State
College in 1954 and S.C. State University
in 1992.
(Marker Reverse):
South Carolina State has been called "at
least symbolically, the most important
educational institution in black Carolina
since its founding." Students were also
active in the Civil Rights Movement of
the 1950s and 60s, taking part in sit-ins,
the Orangeburg Movement of 1963-64
seeking desegregation of downtown
businesses, and the Orangeburg
Massacre in 1968.
Marker is at the intersection of Magnolia Street (U.S. 601) and Geathers Street, on the right when traveling north on Magnolia Street.
Courtesy hmdb.org
