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  1. Apr 10, 2014 · The Briggs school segregation case in 1951 would cement Waring's place in civil rights history. Sitting on a three-judge panel, Waring considered other court decisions that had chipped away at ...

  2. Marshall distributed mimeographed copies of Judge Waring’s dissent to the delegates and also extended the judge his personal appreciation.” The place of Judge Waring and the Briggs v. Elliott case is well documented in many histories. On appeal it was ultimately subsumed with other school desegregation cases into the Brown v

  3. Julius Waties Waring (July 27, 1880 – January 11, 1968) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of South Carolina who played an important role in the early legal battles of the American Civil Rights Movement. His dissent in Briggs v. Elliott was foundational to Brown v.

  4. “It is time for South Carolina to rejoin the Union.” Judge Waring, 1947 ruling in Elmore v. Rice Julius Waties Waring was born in 1880 in Charleston, South Carolina, to a prominent white family, including a father who was the superintendent of education. He attended the College of Charleston and read law before passing the … Continued

  5. The defendant was Roderick W. Elliott, a local sawmill owner and the school board chairman. The lawyers argued that segregated schools harmed black children psychologically and violated the Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantee of equal protection under the law. Two of the judges, citing the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896, held that separate ...

  6. Mar 23, 2021 · Briggs v. Elliott bounced back and forth between the District and Supreme courts along with cases from Kansas, Delaware, Virginia and Washington, D.C. Briggs was heard on December 9, 1952 and in a ...

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  8. Briggs et al. v. Elliott et al. (Briggs v. Elliott; Briggs) was a lawsuit filed in 1951 by 20 plaintiffs. It claimed that enforced racial segregation laws violated the equal protection guaranteed by the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution. The plaintiffs were parents of students in School District No. 22 of Summerton (Clarendon County), South ...

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