“Colored” School Because the school board refused to fund buses for black students, the county’s 61 “colored” schools were scattered throughout the region. Most, like Liberty Hill Colored School, were small wooden structures that accommodated one or two classrooms. In the 1949-50 school year, for every dollar spent on a white child only 24 cents was allotted for a black student. Not surprisingly, black adults in the county averaged just over four years of education.
(Courtesy of South Carolina Department of Archives and History)
(Courtesy of South Carolina Department of Archives and History)
White school in SummertonThe county provided 30 buses to bring white children to larger and better-equipped facilities. White children from the Summerton area attended this red brick building with a separate lunchroom and science laboratories. Most rural black schools had neither electricity nor running water.
(Courtesy of South Carolina Department of Archives and History)
(Courtesy of South Carolina Department of Archives and History)