<P> The University Act of 1869 reorganized the University and provided it with generous state financial support . An amendment was added to the act by W.J. Whipper, a black representative from Beaufort, to prevent racial discrimination from the admissions policy of the University . The legislature elected two black trustees to the governing board of the University on March 9, 1869 . Franklin J. Moses, Jr., state representative and speaker of the house, also supported admission of all races to the state school . In October 1873, Henry E. Hayne, the Republican secretary of state, was admitted as the first black student; he was of mostly white ancestry with a white politician father . </P> <P> The admission of black students to the University was inevitable, and three factors contributed to this . First, the University never achieved a level of enrollment that was commensurate with its financial backing by the legislature . Enrollment never exceeded one hundred students, whereas the enrollment at Wofford College exceeded that mark in 1870 . White students were believed to avoid the university from fear it would be integrated . The second reason was the failure of the state to provide an adequate public university for the education of blacks . It was trying to compensate rapidly for the state's failure to educate blacks in the antebellum years . In 1872, funds were allocated for the Agricultural and Mechanical Institute at Orangeburg, but they were badly mismanaged . Black legislators called for the opening of the University to black students . Finally, the state Republican party split for the election of 1872 between Radical and moderate factions . The Radicals won and pressed their advantage by electing four blacks to the Board of Trustees, thus constituting a majority . </P> <P> The legislature established a normal school to train teachers for the lower grades on the campus of the University as well as a preparatory school, since most black students of the state had been deprived of strong academic training in years past . In addition, to encourage enrollment by blacks, tuition and other fees were abolished . On October 7, 1873, Henry E. Hayne, the Secretary of State of South Carolina, became the first black student when he registered for the fall session in the medical college of the University . As a result of his enrollment, three professors resigned, and some white students left . </P> <P> On October 8, enrollment stood at eight students, seven of whom were the sons of professors . The number increased to twenty - two students after many politicians registered with the University to show that it was open for both races, yet few of the politicians attended classes . Troubled by the low enrollment, State Treasurer of South Carolina, Francis L. Cardozo went to Washington and persuaded a handful of students at Howard University to transfer to the University . Drastic measures were required to increase the number of students and the legislature passed an act in February 1874 to provide for 124 scholarships of $200 . The conservative press denounced this move because with the absence of tuition, it meant that students were effectively being paid to attend the University, but poor students were often critical to family support, and scholarships helped them cover living expenses . Many of the scholarship students could not meet the entrance requirements into the freshman class, so the faculty assembled them into a sub-freshman class . This plan was abolished in 1875 as the legislature had not authorized it . </P>

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