USC during Reconstruction

06/02/2024 7 min Episodio 77
USC during Reconstruction

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Episode Synopsis

USC's modern desegregation took place in 1963 when three African American students enrolled at the historically white university — but they actually weren't the first black students in the university's history. For a brief window in the 1870s, USC became the only state-supported public university in the South to open its doors to white and black students alike.