Spurrier announced the Gamecocks will wear a sticker on their helmets this year honoring the nine people who were killed in the Charleston church shooting. It will be a palmetto tree with nine doves. Kinda undercuts the southern, white, redneck, racist rant that the libs and Yankees love to make.
Actually, I think that's great!
The University of South Carolina was the first state-supported university in the south to fully integrate, if only between 1873 and 1877.
According to your university's website:
In 1869, the General Assembly passed a bill stipulating that the University would “make no distinction in the admission of students or the management of the university on account of race, color, or creed.” Francis L. Cardozo and Benjamin Bozeman become USC's first black trustees. Cardozo also recruits a number of the pioneering African American students from Howard University and later earns his L.L.B. degree from the University and served as state treasurer and secretary of state during Reconstruction.
Henry E. Hayne, Secretary of State of South Carolina, enrolled in USC’s medical school and became the first known African American student. According to some accounts, Hayne later “lost (his) identity,” left South Carolina, and passed for white.
Additionally, Richard T. Greener, the first black graduate of Harvard College (1870), became the first black faculty member, teaching mental and moral philosophy at USC. He was the institution's first black faculty member and later served as the University's librarian. He and his family lived at the foot of the Horseshoe in the Leiber House. Described by one of his students as “brilliant man and a polished speaker,” Greener earned a degree from the University's law school in 1876. After being forced to leave the University because of his race in 1877, he taught at Howard University's law school and later entered the U.S. diplomatic corps, serving as the first U.S. consul to Vladivostok, Russia from 1898 to 1905.
