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SOUTH CAROLINA
STATE UNIVERSITY
S.C. State University was
founded in 1896 as the
Colored Normal, Industrial,
Agricultural & Mechanical
College of S.C. with its
origins in the Morrill Land
Grants Acts of 1862 and 1890
providing for land-grant
colleges. Intended "for the
best education of the hand,
head, and heart of South
Carolina's young manhood
and womanhood of the Negro
race," it became S.C. State
College in 1954 and S.C.
State University in 1992.
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ERECTED BY SOUTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY 1997
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SOUTH CAROLINA
STATE UNIVERSITY
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South Carolina State has
been called "at least
symbolically, the most
important educational
institution in black
Carolina since its
founding." Students were
also active in the Civil
Rights Movement of the
1950s and 60s, taking part
in sit-ins, the Orangeburg
Movement of 1963-64 seeking
desegregation of downtown
businesses, and the
Orangeburg Massacre in
1968.
ERECTED BY SOUTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY 1997
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