JAMES ISLAND, S.C. (WCSC) – One of the 11 students to integrate Charleston County Public Schools six decades ago still calls the Lowcountry home in her retirement years.
Dr. Millicent Brown is a Charleston native who was raised in an activist household. Her father, J. Arthur Brown, was very involved in the NAACP at the state and local levels.
These days, Brown finds peace tending to the vegetable garden at her James Island home. But in her retirement years, the fruits of her labor reach well beyond her gardening: She is a history maker…