graduate in 1898. By the 1920s, women made up a quarter of the student body, and in 1924, they were allowed to live in campus dormitories.
=== Civil rights era ===
Black students did not return to the University of South Carolina until 1963, when Henrie Monteith, Robert Anderson, and James Solomon enrolled. The university was one of the last large public universities to desegregate. Students who integrated the university feared violence and were excluded from many aspects of social life and extra-curriculars. On campus, the integration process proceeded peacefully, just not supportively. Monteith became the university's first post-Reconstruction black graduate and first black female graduate in 1965.
=== Previous institution names ===
Chartered as South Carolina College on December 19, 1801
Chartered as the University of South Carolina on January 10, 1866
Chartered as South Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanics on October 3, 1880
Chartered as South Carolina College in 1882
Chartered as the University …
