[1][2][3] Many Black residents strongly objected to the Closure of Clear View, and U.S. Representative William Jennings Bryan Dorn took up the cause with the HEW.

Simpson Alternative school and is now the site of the Pickens County Head Start program and the Dream Center.

[6] In 1967, civil rights officials from the HEW visited Pickens County, and announced $700,000 in Federal Funds would be withheld until the school system came up with an acceptable integration plan.

Simpson Elementary, which was adjacent to Clear View was to be closed the next year and converted to a community center.

[7] While the board of trustees claimed the decision to close the Black schools was forced on them by the HEW, local activist R.D.