{"id":2198,"date":"2026-06-27T09:05:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T09:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usmovingexpertss.com\/?p=2198"},"modified":"2026-06-27T09:05:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T09:05:16","slug":"uscs-proposed-civil-rights-center-has-a-powerful-location-heres-why-it-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usmovingexpertss.com\/?p=2198","title":{"rendered":"USC\u2019s proposed civil rights center has a powerful location \u2014 here\u2019s why it matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<article><!-- --><!-- --><!-- WPS-5038 -- removed the script from WPS and added the placeholder for trinity player --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- CONTENT --><!--[--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Some 50 years after the University of South Carolina bought and razed Booker T. Washington High School\u2019s main classroom building amid a campus expansion, a civil rights center will spring from the soil where the historic Black high school once stood.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/usmovingexpertss.com\/?p=2196\">Severe Storms Are About to Hit America\u2019s Highways: Here\u2019s What Drivers Need to Know<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>The USC Board of Trustees on June 19 gave their approval to begin planning the building, which will house the university\u2019s Center for Civil Rights History and Research, currently located in the Ernest F. Hollings Special Collections Library.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>The significance of the center\u2019s proposed location at the intersection of Blossom and Bull streets, just east of the only structure that remains from the original four-acre Booker T. Washington High School campus, is not lost on the university.<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe site is not random,\u201d USC architect Derek Gruner said in an interview with The State Media Co. \u201cThe site has symbolic importance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>When it opens, the new civil rights center will serve as a hub for scholarship and instruction and a repository for historical materials that spotlight South Carolina\u2019s civil rights history.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>The building\u2019s larger exhibition space will allow USC\u2019s Center for Civil Rights History and Research to consolidate and display its ever-growing collection, which is currently spread across multiple locations throughout Columbia.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>The center, launched in 2015 to chronicle, preserve and share South Carolina\u2019s contributions to the Civil Rights Movement, possesses audio recordings, photographs, newspaper clippings, manuscripts and various primary source documents from notable South Carolina civil rights leaders, including U.S. Rep. 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