Balancing segregation and education: the role of the Gressette Committee [2003 Dec.] ; [typescript] / Rebekah Dobrasko.

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Balancing segregation and education: the role of the Gressette Committee [2003 Dec.] ; [typescript] / Rebekah Dobrasko.

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Essay discussing 15 year tenure of the South Carolina School Committee (1951-1966), which was popluarly known as the "Gressette Committee" after its chair, S.C. Senator L. Marion Gressette; this committee worked to "find legal ways to maintain segregation." Essay includes list (pages 21-22) and dates of service of members who were S.C. Senators, S.C. Representatives, and Governor's Appointees on the School Committee.

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University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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