News and Courier, State Mental Hospital. Negro, White Patients Scuffle

News and Courier, State Mental Hospital. Negro, White Patients Scuffle

"A dining room scuffle between white and Negro Patients at the South Carolina Mental Hospital had 'racial overtones,' the institution's superintendent said Thursday." This fight occurred with two African American male patients and several hundred white patients during a time when integration of the two races was just beginning to slowly happen in order for the institute to continue to obtain federal aid. Dr. Hall claimed that only three supervisors were on duty at the time because of "vacations and other factors" that had reduced the number of staff that particular day. One of the African American men was cut in the face and the other was unharmed. "A Columbia Negro group, the Richland Citizens Committe, has called the gradual plan inadequate and is opposing it." The integration plan is to take two to five years to fully integrate the hospital. "

News and Courier

Box 1, Series S190008 SDMH Scrapbooks-2 South Carolina Department of Archives and History

1965-07-30

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