[Clear Rivers]

Oh the imhumanity of it all.

[ConservaTexan]

"We grow up believing that what the school textbook says is true," said Spartanburg native Susan Dunlap.

Spartanburg, we have a problem.

[SmithL]

I can’t believe that they took this out of Breaking News already.

[BoneHead]

It was a terrible mistake," Keene said in a telephone conversation from her home in Denver. "The story is from another Southern school district, but I got my notes mixed up."

The error involves a student recounting a story her grandmother told about integration. The student said her grandmother, a Spartanburg resident, was kicked until her legs were bloody and forced to eat outside instead of in the lunchroom. The student also said a fire was set in front of a Spartanburg school and that some students were set on fire.

While news accounts and recollections of what occurred during school integration in the 1970s confirm that there were strong emotions voiced, it didn't result in that form of violence locally.

In college I thought that oral history was kinda cool, you know getting the story from the first hand participant. It's really screwy then, when you use the story second hand through the lense of a child's recollection of what Grandma said. Hardly an origial source. Guess I have to rethink that.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Facts are a Eurocentric concept, anyway. The book expresses higher truths, so that’s what matters. ;)

[Between the Lines]

The student also said a fire was set in front of a Spartanburg school and that some students were set on fire.

If this didn't happen in Spartanburg, exactly what other "Southern school district" did this happen in? I do not remember any stories of students being set on fire.

If this story is not factual concerning Spartanburg, is there any fact to it at all?

[SC Swamp Fox]

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[kalee]

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