![]() ![]() Often, when the water was particularly high, someone would provide a raft to row their way across the Lake Marion Reservoir. On other days, rain would force students as young as 6 years old to wade across a stream to attend school. If the children were lucky, they walked as far as nine miles to attend one of the segregated schools in Clarendon County’s District 22. Their children were mostly just tired.Įvery day, young Summertonians maneuvered through one obstacle course after another, only to be rewarded with an inferior education. In 1948, when only 16 states in America had outlawed segregated public schools, Black parents in the tiny hamlet of Summerton, South Carolina, where three out of every four residents were Black, finally got tired of being robbed by white people. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |