2 1 4 3 5 Road Trip 3 Set off on a cultural journey following "The Green Book of South Carolina," a travel guide to more than 400 African American cultural sites across the state, featuring themed road trip routes. On this course, learn how five historic schools and HBCUs in South Carolina helped provide generations of African Americans a pathway to a better life through higher education. 45 miles Claflin University, Orangeburg A top-tier HBCU and the oldest in the state, Claflin was founded by Methodist missionaries in 1869 to educate freedmen after the Civil War, initially providing basic grammar school education and training for teachers. 1 Start 4 140 miles Immanuel School, Aiken Built in 1889 in the late Victorian architectural style, the privately funded parochial school educated African American children in the Aiken area until it closed during the Great Depression. It now serves as the Center for African American History, Art & Culture. Myrtle Beach Colored School, Myrtle Beach Thanks to the efforts of its former students, the circa 1930s six-room building—the first public school for African Americans in Myrtle Beach—was rebuilt in 2006 and now serves as a museum and educational center. 2 56 miles 5 Allen University Historic District and Benedict College, Columbia 221 miles Cherry Hill School, Hilton Head Island Standing side by side, these two institutions of higher learning were founded by religious organizations in 1870 and feature picturesque campuses with a number of buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The first separate school building constructed for African American students on Hilton Head Island, this one-room frame elementary school was built by Beaufort County circa 1937 after the Black community raised the money to buy the property. *Distances are approximate 49
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