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Orangeburg's public schools, James Wilsford, credited Orangeburg Prep for stepping away from its segregationist traditions, saying it was "a big move towards accommodating the modern world." The Globe story stated that "ne black student, the son of a physician, studied at Orangeburg Prep until his family moved back to Ohio recently."
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announcement and the beginning of the next school year, and the students of both Wade
Hampton and Willington Academies voted to select the Indian as the new school's mascot and red and gray as the colors — one from each school, red from Willington and gray from Wade Hampton. (Wade Hampton Academy's teams had been the Rebels, Willington's the Patriots.)
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