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Mar 23, 2021 · On November 17, Waring dismissed Briggs v. Elliott without prejudice so Marshall could file again and challenge segregation.
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The Case to ABANDON segregation in the Lower Schools started trial this morning before a three Judge court including my husband, Judge J. Waties Waring before whom it was brought in this court from Clarendon County in his District.
Apr 10, 2014 · Nine years later, in a landmark school segregation case Briggs v. Elliott , Waring denounced segregation as an "evil that must be eradicated." In a forceful dissent, he wrote that...
In 1951 Waring was one of three judges to hear Briggs v. Elliott, a test case on school desegregation. Thurgood Marshall represented the plaintiffs against the Clarendon County, South Carolina public schools which were described as separate but not at all equal.
In a lone dissenting opinion from the Briggs decision, Judge Julius Waring adamantly opposed segregation in public education. Gov. James F. Byrne, a former U.S. Supreme Court associate justice, had already began the process of “equalizing” schools, statewide.
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.
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May 16, 2022 · The plaintiffs of the Briggs v. Elliot case sought to challenge the South Carolina state constitution, which established its separate school system. According to the 1895 state...
