Greenville County · Marker 23-80
Bryson High School
Bryson Dr., Fountain Inn
Front inscription
Bryson H.S. opened in 1954, serving African American students in lower Greenville Co. It was one of the many schools constructed in the 1950s as part of the school equalization program in S.C. The school consolidated the populations from five high schools, all that had inadequate facilities. The new Bryson H.S. featured a gym, auditorium, industrial and agricultural shops, home economics laboratories, and library. First serving grades 7-12, in 1958 they began serving grades 8-12.
Reverse inscription
Dr. A.M. Anderson was the first and only principal. More than 1,000 students graduated from Bryson under his watch. The school mascot was the Hurricane and the newspaper was the Hurricane Times. The class of 1970 was the last to graduate. After the Civil Rights Act of 1964 the U.S. government put more pressure on the states to finally implement school desegregation. In 1970 S.C. schools complied. Bryson students moved to the all white Woodmont, Hillcrest and J.L. Mann High Schools.