O'Neal Smalls
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Law
B.S. (1964) Tuskegee Inst.
J.D. (1967) Harvard
LL.M. (1975) Georgetown
Before joining the USC law faculty in 1989, Professor Smalls taught at American University and George Washington University. Presently, he teaches courses in Civil Procedure, Public Officials and the Law, and Legal and Equitable Remedies, and has taught courses in Education Law and Federal Jurisdiction. His course on Public Officials and the Law is unique to the USC School of Law and Professor Smalls has reworked course materials for this course. Recent scholarly activities included the design and coordination of a workshop to present research on early twentieth century rural African American education in Southern schools - the Rosenwald Schools Workshop.
Professor Smalls has served on a number of boards and committees, including service as Chair of the Law School Faculty Selection Committee; Chair of the Legal Committee of the State of South Carolina Auto Insurers Advisory Board; and, member of the University Undergraduate Admissions Committee. He also serves as President and Chair of the Freewoods Foundation, which has established Freewoods Farm, the only historical living farm museum in the United States dedicated to re-creating life on farms owned or operated by African Americans, and recognizing the enormous contributions made by African-American farmers through agriculture to the economy of South Carolina – and indeed to the nation’s economy. Freewoods Farm, located in a rural section of Horry County approximately ten miles southwest of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, provides education, documentation and preservation of the activities and practices of these farms.
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