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Citadel, The–The Military College of South Carolina

Citadel, The–The Military College of South Carolina (sit'udul, –del") [key], at Charleston; state supported; chartered (1842) as The Citadel, opened 1843. From 1882 to 1910 it was named the South Carolina Military Academy. Cadets are subject to military regulations. The exclusion of women from the traditionally all-male corps of cadets was challenged in court in the mid-1990s, and a state-sponsored South Carolina Institute of Leadership for Women opened (1995) at Converse College, Spartanburg, S.C., as a parallel program for women. In 1996, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a similar program at the Virginia Military Institute was inadequate, The Citadel voted to admit women to the cadet corps, and in 1999 the first woman graduated from the school.

See study by C. S. Manegold (2000).

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Not when the state pays: men-only colleges.(U.S. Supreme Court orders Virginia Military Institute to accept women students)(Brief Article) (The Economist (US))

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Separate, not equal.(all-women experimental alternatives to the Citadel and Virginia Military Institute) (Newsweek)

Should a woman enter all-male school? (case of Shannon Faulkner, the first woman admitted to the Citadel but who later withdrew) (Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication)

"An oasis of order": the Citadel, the 1960s, and the Vietnam antiwar movement.(ESSAY) (Southern Cultures)

Conservative lipstick only, you maggots. (all-male Citadel military academy issues strict conduct code for its first group of female recruits)(Brief Article) (U.S. News & World Report)

First Black women to graduate from the Citadel. (National Report).(Brief Article) (Jet)

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