The Museum is currently preparing an on-site and web exhibition, 1963—2013, Desegregation—Integration, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the second desegregation of the University.
The exhibition will open in late August.

Standing room crowd for the Musuem's film presentation
at the 2013 Indie Grits Festival

The University of South Carolina’s Museum of Education presented the documentary film, One Tenth of Our Nation, on Monday, April 15, as part of the Nickelodeon Theatre’s Indie Grits Festival.

Funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, One Tenth of Our Nation has been described as the first feature documentary on black education in the United States. Produced by the country’s leading documentary filmmakers for premiere in Chicago at the 1940 American Negro Exposition, the film was mislabeled and forgotten until its recent rediscovery. This Indie Grits screening will be the first showing of the film in the South in over 60 years.

One Tenth of Our Nation presents a troubling 26 minute portrayal of black education and poverty—displaying progress and problems of African American schools in the United States. With stunning film work and a musical score written by one the country's leading composers, the documentary illustrates the difficulties of portraying to a movie-going audience the pride of accomplishment alongside the reprehensible inequities of black education.  

Introductory comments were made by Dr. Craig Kridel, Curator of the Museum of Education who rediscovered the footage in 2008, and by Dr. Julie Hubbert of the School of Music who discussed the original film score by composer Roy Harris.

The Museum of Education staged the Witten Lecture and Travelstead Award Presentation in September 2013.

Sallie Ann Robinson, noted Gullah cookbook author and former Daufuskie Island resident, presented “The Water Was Wide” as she discussed her experiences as a student of Pat Conroy’s at the Mary Fields School during the 1969 and 1970 school years. This period of Conroy’s life would be drawn upon for the novel, The Water Is Wide.

Immediately preceding the Witten Lecture, the Travelstead Award for Courage in Education was presented to Charles T. (Bud) Ferillo, Jr., producer and director of the award-winning documentary, Corridor of Shame: The Neglect of South Carolina’s Rural Schools,  in recognition of his leadership in the civil rights movement and the struggle for social justice and educational equity. The award honors the career of Chester C. Travelstead (1911-2006), Dean of the College of Education from 1952-1955, who spoke for the rights of others and furthered the cause of racial integration in South Carolina schools.  Previous recipients of the Travelstead Award include Federal Judge Mathew Perry and Voorhees College President Cleveland Sellers.

At the 2012 Chester Travelstead Award event,
University of South Carolina President Harris Pastides
and U.S. Congressman James E. Clyburn
presented the award to Charles T. (Bud) Ferillo, Jr.

NOW ON-LINE:
Video presentations of Principal Stonewall Richburg's Public Square Program

Mr. Stonewall Richburg with interviewer
Dr. Valinda Littlefield
Go to: So his voice will never be forgotten

The Monteith School receives
a Museum of Education Bell

Karen Starks, Henry Hopkins,
Fannie Phelps Adams, Martha Monteith, Alvin Griffin with the school bell

The Hope School, Pomaria, SC

The Museum of Education is pleased to have assisted the Hope School (one of the remaining Rosenwald schools in South Carolina) with the photo documentation of their August 22, 2009 Community Center Grand Opening.