Summerton's 1st Black mayor says town has come far since being birthplace of desegregation in 1940s
BY SHARRON HALEY
Clarendon contributor
Clarendon contributor
Posted 2/28/23
SUMMERTON - It was 1947, a year that would go down in history as the start of desegregation in Clarendon County.
Three of Levi and Viola Pearson's children had to walk nine miles from Davis Station to Summerton to attend the Black high school in …
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