After her failure to identify slavery as the cause of the Civil War generated a wave of criticism last month, Nikki Haley assured her potential constituents that she had Black friends, and that she understood the war’s origins.
By 1975, the number of private schools in South Carolina grew more than tenfold, enrolling as many as 90 percent of the white children in some majority Black counties.
Ms. Haley graduated in 1989 from Orangeburg Preparatory School.
Orangeburg was the product of a merger between Wade Hampton and Willington Academy, also segregation academies, the former of which was named after one of the largest slaveholding families in South Carolina.
The year Ms. Haley graduated, her high school yearbook featured at most a handful of Black students.
Persons:
Nikki Haley, “, Haley, Wade Hampton
Organizations:
Gov, Education, Orangeburg Preparatory School, Willington Academy, Hampton, Confederate
Locations:
South Carolina, Brown, Black, Orangeburg