It is one of four remaining historically African-American boarding schools in the United States.
He has long asserted that he was one of the few white students in a predominantly African-American school.
This is because school integration had not been achieved and there were few African-American secondary schools until the 1930s.
It continued as the African-American high school in the Seneca area until 1969 when the county public schools were integrated.
He was a white kid in a mainly African-American school.
African-American schools had fewer resources leading to greater racial gaps in educational achievement.
They also thought it would be good for the middle-school players from the mostly African-American school to play some mostly white teams.
When he graduated he was the first African-American to do so from that school.
The school's campus became part of a 1950s project to build mostly African-American schools in South Carolina.
It's a mostly African-American religious school, which intends to create a separate secular facility for the public-school transfer students.