Orangeburg County · Marker 38-51
Christ the King Catholic School
1724 Amelia St., Orangeburg
Front inscription
This was the site of Christ the King Catholic School for local African Americans. Classes were previously held at Christ the King Church, opened on Treadwell Ave. in 1942. In 1943, the Oblate Sisters of Providence, an order of African American nuns, arrived in Orangeburg to maintain this and another Catholic school in Aiken. Christ the King School subsequently moved to this site, where the order’s convent was located.
Reverse inscription
In 1949, Christ the King School moved into the brick-faced Quonset hut that still stands nearby. A brick annex was added in 1954. For a time, approx. 200 students in grades K-8 attended, included from non-Catholic families. The church closed in 1967 when congregants integrated with historically white Holy Trinity Church. The school reopened as Holy Trinity School on Riverside Dr. with Black and white pupils. It closed in 1998.