Winthrop College in the Sixties: Campus Protests, Southern Style

Abstract

This study will examine campus protests at Winthrop College during the 1960s in relation to three main developments. First, the paper will explore the topic of integration. Emphasis will be placed on student responses to the admission of Winthrop's first African American students. Second, the paper will examine how parietals came to an end. Attention will be given to the regulations that governed student life and the process that removed them from campus policy. And finally, the paper will describe events and crises, some of which were manufactured by the campus itself, leading to the decision to make Winthrop a coeducational institution. While the final decision came in the early seventies, students and administrators had taken unusual steps to press the issue since the very beginning of the sixties