A seventeen year old African American boy works for packaging of cotton in a village in South Carolina. Packaged bales of cottons are loaded in a horse cart. All workers are African Americans as are the farm owners. View of a white man talking with two elderly African American residents at a farm. The old man and woman living in poor conditions.
Educational inequalities between children of white and African American communities. African American students and teachers standing outside a dilapidated house donated by the Mt. Arat Baptist Church. House is being refurbished as a school. Charts depict that the state government provides only the small salary to the teachers and nothing for facilities at the school for black students. Pupils of this school are seen gathering on the front porch of the school, which has limited basic infrastructure and inadequate facilities, including no toilets for the students. (As the students and teachers gather on the porch, the last man walking out behind them and crossing the porch is Thurgood Marshall, who was documenting these conditions on film during a trip together with Charles Hamilton Houston). Next scene shows a building close to this school that is not in use but has not been given to the black school. Views of nearby school for white students called Richberg School (or possibly Richburg School), 2 miles away, which enjoys good facilities. Buildings, water pump, and transportation buses of Richberg School are seen.
Educational dissimilarities between the people of African American and white origin, in South Carolina. Butler Chapel Shool building made entirely by its African American patron, condemned and closed due to lack of aid from the Government. Views of the broken down building. The pupils of this school packed tightly on two benches sitting outside under sun. Nearby Limestone School for whites enjoys all facilities. View of another, different African American school in disrepair.
Educational inequalities between the schools of African American and white in South Carolina. No vigilance from the County Governments towards the conditions of the schools for African Americans. Pupils of the Bethel Graded School. School has either broken or no window glass panes, doors are broken.
Educational inequalities between schools for whites and African Americans. Friendship Baptist College, Rock Hill, supported by African American Baptists. The buildings, quarters, compound and playground of the college. Students of the college doing the daily tasks like cleaning, laundry all by themselves. The poor conditions of the school buildings, classrooms and quarters, with broken glasses and doors. Man walking down rickety, shaking stairs. Students assembled in outside yard.
Educational and general standards of the segregated African American schools in South Carolina. A bus in poor condition of the Fern Cliff School. African American students of the Fern Cliff School move in a line out of the school building.
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