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Even after the Civil War, Citadel cadets and alumni were the guardians of a unique antebellum tradition of southern military manhood and education. Historians have various explanations for why men from the region tend to gravitate toward the military and military colleges. Historian John Hope Franklin argued that violence necessary to survive the frontier and subdue slaves reinforced a culture of honor that prized military values and physical aggression. More recently, historian Rod Andrew has argued that the support for the military and tiffany rings for sale education in the South arose from the belief that good soldiers made good citizens. Far from being a conservative force in southern life, Andrew saw military schools as meritocracies where all white men, at least, were judged on their ability and aptitude, not on wealth or family lineage.

Since the founding of The Citadel as a defense against slave insurrections, there had been little need to articulate an all-white admissions policy until the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and '60s, when African Americans sought entry into the exclusive institutions that defined and defended white power and tiffany rings on sale. Surviving the physical, psychological, and intellectual challenges at The Citadel and attaining the coveted graduation ring meant that a man had proven himself worthy, and that worthiness opened doors with a network of alumni supporters that included leaders in nearly every field imaginable, from senators to generals, planters to preachers, CEO s to scientists. Without access to the school and this network, African tiffany in the South Carolina Lowcountry understood that they would never be truly equal members of Charleston society.

Pat Conroy famously chronicled racial integration at The Citadel in his bestselling novel The Lords of Discipline. Conroy set the book in 1966 when the first African American cadet entered the corps. The protagonist is Will McLean, a liberal, white upperclassman unofficially assigned to see that the black cadet, Tom Pearce, survives his first year and ultimately graduates. "We're a little behind the times," McLean's mentor, a Citadel official, tells him early in the book. "Every other school in South Carolina integrated a good while ago, and God tiffany sale we held out as long as we could, but Mr. Pearce is coming through these gates next Monday and he isn't coming to mow the lawn or fry chicken in the mess hall."