{"id":8658,"date":"2020-02-14T15:55:30","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T15:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2020\/02\/14\/desegregation\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:32:06","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:32:06","slug":"desegregation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/desegregation\/","title":{"rendered":"1963 lawsuit set stage for school integration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The decision to challenge Greenville\u2019s &#8216;separate but equal&#8217; system was a meticulous and well-thought out effort,&#8221; said historian Courtney Tollison &#8217;99 in an article published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/news\/2020\/02\/11\/school-desegregation-greenville-sc-began-6-pioneering-students\/4430370002\/\">The Greenville News<\/a>. The story covers a 1963 case brought by Lewis Ronald (&#8220;L.R.&#8221;) Byrd,\u00a0Elaine Whittenberg, Donald\u00a0Sampson Jr., Mary\u00a0Baker, Beatrice Thompson and Sara Thompson, the first students to legally challenge the racial segregation policy of the Greenville County school district.<\/p>\n<p>Tollison, Furman Distinguished University Public Historian and Scholar, and Professor of History Steve O&#8217;Neill &#8217;84, have contributed to a series of articles in The Greenville News about the people who made history and the progress of public education 50 years after the desegregation of Greenville County&#8217;s schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The decision to challenge Greenville\u2019s &#8216;separate but equal&#8217; system was a meticulous and well-thought out effort,&#8221; said historian Courtney Tollison &#8217;99 in an article published in The Greenville News. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":8659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3,42,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-alumni","category-history","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8658","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=8658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}