in protest, and Hayne's registration became national news. Two years later, the majority of students at the university were black, and enrolled students included Richard T. Greener, T. McCants Stewart, William D. Crum, William Sinclair, and Alonzo Townsend. Opponents of desegregation labeled the university as "the radical university," blaming its changes on being occupied by outsiders with radical ideas. This period of desegregation lasted for four years.
=== Post-Reconstruction (Jim Crow era) ===
When Reconstruction ended in 1877, South Carolina's legislature became all-white again. That year, South Carolina state leaders closed the university. It was reopened in 1880 as a white only agricultural college. Greener, the university's first black professor, had to leave.
In 1893, South Carolina's legislature required that the university let women enroll, although the university did not yet allow women to live on campus. Frances Guignard Gibbes was admitted in 1895, and Mattie Jean Adams became the first female …
