{"id":8654,"date":"2020-02-13T21:13:03","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T21:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2020\/02\/18\/integration-came-with-a-cost\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:32:04","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:32:04","slug":"integration-came-with-a-cost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/integration-came-with-a-cost\/","title":{"rendered":"Integration came with a cost"},"content":{"rendered":"

When integration came to Greenville County Schools in 1970, it came with a cost, borne mostly by black families. In one of a series of articles about desegregation appearing in The Greenville News<\/a>, firsthand accounts of students’ experiences during integration describe the mid-school-year shuffling of students from their segregated schools to integrated ones. Friends, teammates and even members of the same family were impacted by a chain of starts and stops.<\/p>\n

One of the story’s vignettes features Furman University alumnus Clyde Mayes ’75, a star basketball player at both all-black Beck High School and integrated Wade Hampton High. Mayes, a religion major, went on to play for the Furman Paladins as one of four black scholar\/athletes on the 1972 team. After leading Furman to three consecutive NCAA Tournament berths, the 6-foot-7-inch, 225-pound power forward was a second-round draft pick for the NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks. Mayes later played for pro teams in Italy, Spain and France.<\/p>\n

In addition to incorporating firsthand accounts for the article, Carol Motsinger of The Greenville News used archives and books, and turned to historians like Furman History Professor Steve O’Neill ’84.<\/p>\n

Mayes is also mentioned in a Jan. 28, 1997 article, “A look back at how black athletes navigated Greenville’s integration in the 1970s<\/a>,” which was republished Feb. 16, 2020 as part of a series commemorating 50 years since the integration of Greenville County schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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