South Carolina State University is a historically black university located in Orangeburg, South Carolina, United States. It is the only state funded, historically black land-grant institution in South Carolina and is a member-school of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund.
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—Daniel Decatur Emmett (1815–1904)
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—Anna Julia Cooper (1859–1964)
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—For the State of New Jersey, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“I had a classmate who fitted for college by the lamps of a lighthouse, which was more light, we think, than the University afforded.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)