Index

Contents
Foreword
Ed Sellers

Introduction: Twentieth Anniversary Edition
James T. McLawhorn, Jr.

Chapter 1 “The More Things Change…”? Rethinking the Barriers to and the Potential of Black Political Empowerment in South Carolina
Todd C. Shaw and Willie Black

Chapter 2 Wake Up Call for African American Community: Sizing Up South Carolina’s Youth Gangs Problem
Kenneth Campbell

Chapter 3 Violence and Denial Frame Youth Gangs Stories
Kenneth Campbell

Chapter 4 Racial Disparities in South Carolina’s Juvenile Justice System: A Look at Truancy and Disturbing School Patricia Stone Motes, Andrew Billingsley, Janice P. Rivers, and Chaundrissa Oyeshiku Smith

Chapter 5 A Broken Covenant: South Carolina’s Failure to Educate Its Children
Stephen G. Morrison

Chapter 6 Academic Achievement among African American Students: A Study of School Performance in South Carolina
George C. Bradley and Tina Marshall-Bradley

Chapter 7 Believing in Possibilities: The Center of Excellence for the Education and Equity of African American Students
Gloria Swindler Boutte

Chapter 8 HIV/AIDS in South Carolina: Our Day of Reckoning
Bambi W. Gaddist

Chapter 9 The Status of Black-Owned Businesses in South Carolina
John A. Cole and Lucy J. Reuben