YORK — A new silver landmark stands out on an otherwise sleepy side road south of downtown York . Without it, you’d have no idea history was made on Pinckney Street.

Nothing remains of the old Jefferson school campus, but its memories haven’t faded in the minds of its attendees.

On a Saturday morning at the end of August, more than 150 people gathered for a high school reunion of sorts, at the site where class hasn’t been in session for a half-century.

They took pictures and reminisced as South Carolina’s latest historical marker was unveiled honoring Jefferson High School, the only alma mater for thousands of Black students in the city of York prior to integration.

“Jefferson is our root,” said Phyllis Moore-Ward, a former student at the school in the 1960s and leader of the grassro

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