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25-399: Mullins may refer to: Mullins, South Carolina , USA; a city Mullins River , Belize; a river Mullins (surname) , people with the surname Mullins AMD Mullins , a series of Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) by AMD See also [ edit ] [REDACTED] Search for "Mullins" on Misplaced Pages. Mullins River , Belize;

50-483: A fully integrated school system. In 1910, the public library was established. The current library, located at the corner of N. Main and Wine Streets, was built in 1940. The A.H. Buchan Company Building , Dillard Barn , Imperial Tobacco Company Building , Liberty Warehouse , Mt. Olive Baptist Church , Mullins Commercial Historic District , Neal and Dixon's Warehouse , Old Brick Warehouse , Rasor and Clardy Company Building , and J.C. Teasley House are listed on

75-481: A community that didn't, or couldn't, prepare them for it. Writes [ Harvard University sociologist Orlando] Patterson, "The greatest problem now facing African-Americans is their isolation from the tacit norms of the dominant culture, and this is true of all classes." Although widespread, the distinction between integration and desegregation is not universally accepted. For example, it is possible to find references to "court-ordered integration" from sources such as

100-412: A village Mullins Center , Amherst, an arena Mullins effect , a feature of rubber's mechanical behavior All pages with titles beginning with Mullins All pages with titles containing Mullins Mullen (disambiguation) Mullens (disambiguation) Mullin (surname) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with

125-645: Is a city in Marion County, South Carolina , United States. As of the 2010 census , the city population was 4,663. Incorporated on March 4, 1872, Mullins was named after Col. William S. Mullins , who served as a representative for Marion County in the South Carolina State Legislature from 1852 to 1866. On March 4, 1872, the charter was approved for the town of Mullins. The same year the Macedonia Methodist church

150-547: The Detroit News , PBS , or even Encarta . These same sources also use the phrase "court-ordered desegregation", apparently with exactly the same meaning; the Detroit News uses both expressions interchangeably in the same article. When the two terms are confused, it is almost always to use integration in the narrower, more legalistic sense of desegregation ; one rarely, if ever, sees desegregation used in

175-590: The National Register of Historic Places . Mullins is located at 34°12′19″N 79°15′19″W  /  34.20528°N 79.25528°W  / 34.20528; -79.25528 (34.205239, -79.255309). According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 3.0 square miles (7.8 km ), all land. As of the 2020 United States census , there were 4,026 people, 1,535 households, and 930 families residing in

200-402: The "levelling of all barriers to association other than those based on ability, taste, and personal preference"; in other words, providing equal opportunity. But in another sense integration calls for the random distribution of a minority throughout society. Here, according to Handlin, the emphasis is on racial balance in areas of occupation, education, residency, and the like. From the beginning

225-434: The '60s ... and ... an African American," wrote that the "term 'desegregation' is normally reserved to the legal/legislative domain, and it was the legalization of discrimination in public institutions based on race that many fought against in the 1960s. The term 'integration,' on the other hand, pertains to a social domain; it does and should refer to individuals of different background who opt to interact." In their book By

250-574: The Armed Forces 1940–1969", writes concerning the words integration and desegregation : In recent years many historians have come to distinguish between these like-sounding words... The movement toward desegregation, breaking down the nation's Jim Crow system, became increasingly popular in the decade after World War II . Integration, on the other hand, Professor Oscar Handlin maintains, implies several things not yet necessarily accepted in all areas of American society. In one sense it refers to

275-457: The Color of Our Skin (1999) Leonard Steinhorn and Barbara Diggs-Brown also make a similar distinction between desegregation and integration . They write "... television has ... give[n] white Americans the sensation of having meaningful, repeated contact with blacks without actually having it. We call this phenomenon virtual integration, and it is the primary reason why the integration illusion –

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300-403: The average family size was 3.08. In the city, the population was spread out, with 27.6% under the age of 18, 8.8% from 18 to 24, 23.5% from 25 to 44, 23.2% from 45 to 64, and 16.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females, there were 73.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 65.5 males. The median income for a household in the city

325-475: The belief that we are moving toward a colorblind nation – has such a powerful influence on race relations in America today." Reviewing this book in the libertarian magazine Reason , Michael W. Lynch sums up some of their conclusions as "Blacks and whites live, learn, work, pray, play, and entertain separately..." Then, he writes: The problem, as I see it, is that access to the public spheres, specifically

350-461: The city limits. McCormick Elementary School was built on Sandy Bluff Road in 1956. The original Palmetto School for Negroes (High and Elementary) was built on Cypress Street in 1919 and around 1956 was split up. The Palmetto Elementary School was built on Broad Street. The Palmetto High School was built on O'Neal Street with 1970 being the last graduating class. It became Palmetto Middle School as it remains today. In 1970 all schools were combined into

375-518: The city. As of the census of 2000, there were 5,029 people, 2,001 households, and 1,324 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,647.8 inhabitants per square mile (636.2/km ). There were 2,312 housing units at an average density of 757.6 per square mile (292.5/km ). The racial makeup of the city was 61.58% African American , 36.59% White , 0.28% Native American , 0.68% Asian , 0.12% from other races , and 0.76% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.93% of

400-524: The commercial sphere, often depends on being comfortable with the norms of white society. If a significant number of black children aren't comfortable with them, it isn't by choice: It's because they were isolated from those norms. It's one thing for members of the black elite and upper middle class to choose to retire to predominantly black neighborhoods after a lucrative day's work in white America. It's quite another for people to be unable to enter that commercial sphere because they spent their formative years in

425-408: The military establishment rightly understood that the breakup of the all-black unit would in a closed society necessarily mean more than mere desegregation. It constantly used the terms integration and equal treatment and opportunity to describe its racial goals. Rarely, if ever, does one find the word desegregation in military files that include much correspondence. Similarly, Keith M. Woods writes on

450-502: The need for precision in journalistic language: " Integration happens when a monolith is changed, like when a black family moves into an all-white neighborhood. Integration happens even without a mandate from the law. Desegregation ," on the other hand, "was the legal remedy to segregation." In 1997, Henry Organ, who identified himself as "a participant in the Civil Rights Movement on the ( San Francisco ) Peninsula in

475-399: The population. There were 2,001 households, out of which 29.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 33.1% were married living together, 29.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 33.8% were non-families. 31.1% of all households were made up of individuals, and 14.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.46 and

500-465: The title Mullins . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mullins&oldid=1175196991 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Mullins, South Carolina Mullins

525-434: Was $ 20,154, and the median income for a family was $ 25,218. Males had a median income of $ 26,233 versus $ 16,572 for females. The per capita income for the city was $ 12,183. About 25.3% of families and 28.7% of the population were below the poverty line , including 44.2% of those under age 18 and 20.0% of those age 65 or over. The city is run by an elected council-mayor government system. The first Mullins Fire Department

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550-422: Was attended by boys and girls from the town, nearby rural areas, and neighboring counties. The first schoolhouse was built in 1904; a brick, two-story building on Academy Street. A second schoolhouse was built in 1913, on the corner of Main and Academy streets. Mullins High School was built in 1923 on North Park Street where it stood until burning in 1976. It was rebuilt close to the old Marion highway, outside of

575-519: Was established in the early 1920s. The first fire wagon was a regular farm wagon with a ladder and 20 to 30 buckets hanging from the sides. The wagon was pulled by manpower and the equipment was operated by the first men who arrived to help. Mullins has a public library , a branch of the Marion County Library System. Desegregation#In the U.S. education system Morris J. MacGregor Jr. in his paper "Integration of

600-403: Was established, the first church within city limits. By 1878, the city of Mullins had a population of 75 people, a total of 12 families. There were only three stores and four unpaved streets: Railroad, Main, Smith, and Gapway Streets. Gapway Road was designed from 76 Hwy in 1933. In 1894, the growth and sale of tobacco sparked the further development of the city of Mullins. At one time, the town

625-471: Was the largest tobacco producing/marketing industry in the United States. Mullins became the largest distributor of tobacco in the country, known as "South Carolina's Largest, The world's best tobacco market." In the late 1920s the tobacco festival was started and is still celebrated today. The tobacco festival is known as the 'Golden Leaf Festival." Mullins' first school was established in 1872, which

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