Carolina Snaps
Harvey Gantt
Season 4 Episode 3 | 52sVideo has Closed Captions
The first black student enrolled at Clemson University.
Breaking through segregation, he won a lawsuit to enroll as the first black student at Clemson University. Graduating with honors, Gantt pursued a successful career as an architect, and later became the first black mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Carolina Snaps is a local public television program presented by SCETV
Support for this program is provided by The ETV Endowment of South Carolina.
Carolina Snaps
Harvey Gantt
Season 4 Episode 3 | 52sVideo has Closed Captions
Breaking through segregation, he won a lawsuit to enroll as the first black student at Clemson University. Graduating with honors, Gantt pursued a successful career as an architect, and later became the first black mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Harvey Gantt was born and raised in segregated Charleston, South Carolina Gantt's high school advisor challenged him to apply for admission to an all white institution but South Carolina at the time would pay for black students to go to institutions out of state if there was not a black college that offered the program instate.
Gantt spent some time at Iowa State University before he decided to try and transfer to Clemson.
After suing to be admitted to Clemson Gantt won and soon after enrolled at at Clemson in 1963.
In addition to graduating with honors Gantt also met his wife Lucinda who was the first black woman to enroll at Clemson.
After graduation Gantt went on to receive his masters in City Planning from MIT in starting an architecture firm.
Later in his career Gantt also became the first black mayor of Charlotte and ran for US Senate twice.
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Carolina Snaps is a local public television program presented by SCETV
Support for this program is provided by The ETV Endowment of South Carolina.