Anonymous Patron writes “Return of black archives sought. A decision made in the waning days of segregation has come back to haunt the University of South Carolina.
At issue is the treatment of the Penn Center, one of the first schools for freed slaves in the South and the occasional retreat for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
In 1962, Penn officials could no longer afford to house their photographs and records of black life there dating to the mid-1800s and offered the archives to USC. USC officials said they’d take the records but wouldn’t agree to the one condition Penn insisted on: “equal access regardless of race or color.â€?”
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