Some 50 years after the University of South Carolina bought and razed Booker T. Washington High School’s main classroom building amid a campus expansion, a civil rights center will spring from the soil where the historic Black high school once stood.
The USC Board of Trustees on June 19 gave their approval to begin planning the building, which will house the university’s Center for Civil Rights History and Research, currently located in the Ernest F. Hollings Special Collections Library.
The significance of the center’s proposed location at the intersection of Blossom and Bull streets, just east of the only structure that remains from the original four-acre Booker T. Washington High School campus, is not lost on the university…