Grady Hayes is a young high school football player being raised by his hard working single mother. His life revolves around football, until-in a game against cross-county rivals-he breaks his leg. Cut off from his teammates, Grady is lost. He takes prescription pills to dull the pain and pass the time. But when his leg finally heals and Grady tries to return to the team, his spot has been filled and he can't relate to his teammates anymore. Grady takes up with Hambone, a brooding older boy, and they start hunting together in the swamp at night.

Twelve-year-old Candice Miller is spending the summer in Lambert, South Carolina, in the old house that belonged to her grandmother, who died after being dismissed as city manager for having the city tennis courts dug up looking for buried treasure--but when she finds the letter that sent her grandmother on the treasure hunt, she finds herself caught up in the mystery and, with the help of her new friend and fellow book-worm, Brandon, she sets out to find the inheritance, exonerate her grandmother, and expose an injustice once committed against an African American family in Lambert.

Tri-County was founded in 1962 when the tri-county leaders pooled their resources to plan the College after Act 323, Section 23, of the South Carolina General Assembly established the State Commission for Technical Education and provided for the establishment of regional centers. This book is a celebration of the 50 years (1962-2012).

Prologue, May 1911 -- "No white man -- could do better" -- Peddler's son -- A lucky chance, a daunting task -- "You need a schoolhouse" -- An American citizen -- Lunch at the Blackstone -- Between Chicago and Tuskegee -- Swing low, sweet chariot -- A school in every county -- Rosenwald and Main: sweet home.

The ruling that changed America / Juan Williams -- I: Its impact on law -- 1. Crumbs from the table of plenty: Brown and the ongoing struggle from educational equity in American schools / Gloria J. Browne-Marshall -- 2. Implications of the 1993 Brown III case on Topeka public schools / Judith Lynne McConnell, Blythe Hinitz & Gloria A. Dye -- 3. South Carolina: winning the battle over De Jure segregation, losing the war over De Facto segregation / Jackie R. Booker -- 4. Brown and gender discrimination / Elizabeth Davenport -- The jurisprudential impact of Brown v.

Orienting perspectives to the study of Black students in U.S. higher education -- The undergraduate years: empirical research findings -- The graduate and professional years: empirical research findings -- Practical issues in the higher education of Black Americans.

Author June Manning Thomas offers an intimate history of her experiences in Orangeburg, South Carolina during the 1960s. Thomas was among the plaintiffs in the court case Adams v. School Dist. No. 5, Orangeburg County (1964) and as a result was part of the first group of African American students to attend racially integrated public schools in Orangeburg. Thomas discusses her experiences with a sense of emotion and intimacy that helps readers to better comprehend the complexity of this moment. An academic by training, having received a Ph.D.