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A report says these Black SC leaders should have USC buildings renamed for them Lucas Daprile and Bristow Marchant, The State (Columbia, S.C.)
Jul. 14 If the University of South Carolina moves forward with renaming several buildings on its campus whose namesakes are being re-examined with the passage of time, several prominent African Americans could be set to grace university buildings instead.
The university history subcommittee of the commission examining building names agreed this week on 14 names of African Americans who could have buildings named after them if names are changed, according to a preliminary report. Those are: Robert G. Anderson
Jones notes that the first thing people tend to get wrong about the underground railroad is assuming that a series of subterranean trains, tunnels and platforms branched out like the London Underground or New York subway. It was, in fact, a network of secret routes and safe houses used by thousands of enslaved people to flee from the south to free states and Canada in the early to mid-19th century.
âWhen people hear ârailroadâ, they automatically think it was a train,â Jones adds. âThe underground railroad was just a metaphor for a movement of people to be able to organise a network of abolitionists and freedom seekers.â
MADELINE ANDERSON
Madeline Anderson is a filmmaker who made âIntegration Report 1,â the first documentary ever made by a Black woman. Now in her 90s, Anderson grew up in Lancaster and attended J.P. McCaskey High School.
WILLIAM PARKER
William Parker escaped slavery as a young man and settled in Christiana, where he used his home as a safehouse on the Underground Railroad. He helped protect freed men and women from being kidnapped. He died in 1891 at age 69 or 70.
BARNEY EWELL
Henry Norwood âBarneyâ Ewell, a J.P. McCaskey grad, was a track and field athlete. Among his many accomplishments as a runner, he won one gold and two silver medals at the 1948 Summer Olympics. His high school honored him with a stadium in his name, and the site formerly known as Lancaster Square on Queen Street in Lancaster city has been renamed Barney Ewell Plaza. Ewell died in 1996 at age 78.