Harward, S. C. (Stephen C.)

• 1922: Stephen Cannada Harward born
• 1960: Actions Wheeler v. Durham City Board of Education and Spaulding v. Durham City Board of Education filed for disestablishment of separate segregated school systems in the Durham city school system
• 1963: Action Thompson v. Durham County Board of Education filed for desegregation of Durham County Administrative School Unit Wheeler, Spaulding, and Thompson suits consolidated Federal court ordered Durham city schools to adopt freedom-of-choice desegregation plan
• 1963 - 1975 : Harward served on Durham City School Board
• 1965: Elementary and Secondary Education Act passed as part of President Johnson's "War on Poverty" Durham County schools began desegregation under freedom-of-choice plan
• 1966: Court approved Durham City School Board freedom-of-choice plan
• 1969: Following Green v. School Board of New Kent County and Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education decisions, the Federal Court of Appeals directed the abandonment of freedom-of-choice plan and the implementation of a geographic zoning plan for desegregation of Durham County schools
• 1970: The corresponding mandate was made for Durham city schools
• 1971: Proposed merger of Durham city and county school systems rejected by two-thirds majority
• 1972 - 1974 : Harward served as Duke University Treasurer
• 1992: Durham city and county school districts merged into Durham Public School district
• 1993: Death of Harward

From the guide to the Stephen C. Harward Papers, bulk, 1949-1975 and undated, 1963-1975, (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University)