She Opened the Doors: Remembering Henrie Monteith Treadwell and a Family’s Generational Fight for Justice
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On October 27, 2026, South Carolina lost one of its most consequential civil rights pioneers. Dr. Henrie Monteith Treadwell, the first Black woman to graduate from the University of South Carolina and the last surviving member of the three students who desegregated the institution in 1963, passed away at the age of 80.
