Report (1 folder : 80 sheets) and supporting notes (ring binder) re private schools around South Carolina; includes list identifying names and locations of private schools in operation, ca. 1971; and letter, 30 Mar. 1973, from Bob Anderson of the Southern Regional Council (Atlanta, Ga.) to Hayes Mizell (Columbia, S.C.) re private schools. Topics discussed include the varieties of private education available (i.e. private and church schools that pre-date the 1964 Civil Rights act, the marginal post-integration academy, Christian school, etc.); state regulation of private academies; private accreditation; impact of rising private school enrollment on the financing of public schools; property transfers of buildings and land; Internal Revenue Service issues and schools that lost tax-deductible status due to non-compliance with IRS guidelines concerning racial discrimination; state and county tax exemptions for private schools; "church complicity"; interfacing with housing developers; financial problems occurring due to changes in attendance at public schools; attitude and role of political figures; local politics, with biographical sketches of political figures known at the national, state, and local levels, as well as involvement of political parties, activists, and various boards and commissions; attitude and role of educational establishment; impact of the S.C. Educational Association; perspectives of African American residents around S.C.; appraisal of the threat posed to public education, and suggestions to challenge the private system. Cover: "Study and accompanying research material prepared... under a three-month research grant from the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and the national Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. The study was one of several conducted in the Southeast during 1972 and 1973 in preparation for a federal lawsuit challenging the tax-exempt status if segregated private schools. The research formed the basis for an 80-pp. report to the granters, and for two articles that appeared in Osceola," on 6 and 13 July 1973; Osceola was a news weekly published in Columbia, S.C.
