Harvey B. Gantt, born on this day in 1943, became the first African American student to enroll at Clemson University in South Carolina in 1963. He later made history again as the first Black mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina, serving from 1983 to 1987. Gantt’s achievements marked significant milestones in the desegregation of higher education and political leadership in the American South.
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