Carolina Stories: The Education of Harvey Gantt

South Carolina fought the desegregation of its schools longer than any other state, even after the passage of Brown v. Board of Education in 1954. But a determined effort to enforce Brown, spearheaded by the NAACP, prevailed, and in January 1963 the Fourth Circuit Court ordered Clemson College to admit Harvey Gantt, a young African-American man from Charleston. This documentary brings the story of this seminal episode in civil rights history to the public television audience.
The program is narrated by Tony Award-winning actress and singer Phylicia Rashad and features historic civil rights photographs by Cecil Williams.
Catalog number: 435-000