Remembering the Days: A USC Podcast

Remembering the Days: A USC Podcast


Call it courage: The Chester Travelstead story

March 09, 2021

In 1955, one year after the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional, the School of Education dean at the University of South Carolina had the temerity to agree with that position. He paid a heavy price for speaking up.