{"id":8640,"date":"2020-02-11T20:26:06","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T20:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2020\/02\/11\/black-teacher-recalls-trials-triumphs-at-mostly-white-school\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:31:58","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:31:58","slug":"black-teacher-recalls-trials-triumphs-at-mostly-white-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/black-teacher-recalls-trials-triumphs-at-mostly-white-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Black teacher recalls trials, triumphs at mostly white school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a series of articles, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/news\/local\/2020\/02\/11\/black-teacher-remembers-trials-triumphs-during-desegregation-sc\/2756131001\/\">The Greenville News<\/a> chronicles 50 years since school desegregation in Greenville County. A piece by Angelia Davis highlights the plight of Pearlie Harris, the only black teacher at Greenville&#8217;s Crestone Elementary in 1968, an all-white school that didn&#8217;t become officially integrated until 1970. Harris, who received a Master of Arts in education from Furman University in 1983, remembers a time when &#8220;nothing was easy,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>For the piece, Davis also tapped research by Furman History Professor Stephen O&#8217;Neill &#8217;84 who wrote book chapter &#8220;Memory, History and the Desegregation of Greenville, South Carolina&#8221; found in &#8220;Toward the Meeting of the Waters&#8221; (University of South Carolina Press, 2008). In the chapter, O&#8217;Neill describes life after desegregation &#8211; &#8220;Black students bore the brunt of transfers and shouldered 75 percent of the burden of busing to new schools.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a series of articles, The Greenville News chronicles 50 years since school desegregation in Greenville County. A piece by Angelia Davis highlights the plight of Pearlie Harris, the only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":8641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3,28,43,74,42,6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-alumni","category-education","category-graduate-studies","category-graduate-studies-in-education","category-history","category-in-the-news","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}