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Jan 9, 2024 · Nathaniel Briggs, the son of Harry and Eliza Briggs of the Briggs v. Elliott case, said in a November 2023 filing that the case should never have been known as “Brown,” and that notoriety connected with the momentous civil rights victory should have belonged to their family.
- The Way It Is
- Separate, Not Equal
- Signing and Suffering
- New Petition, New ‘Reign of Terror’
Swamps. Pine forests. Corn, cotton and tobacco fields. Hog farms. Flat dirt roads bordered by the fields and the forests. Pellagra, caused by malnutrition. Malaria, caused by the swamps and bays harboring mosquitos—in 1944, 39 percent of people living on the north shore of Lake Marion test positive. Illiteracy—at least a tenth of white residents an...
The white men believed, since white people had more money and thus paid more taxes, that support must go to schools for white children. In the 1940s in Clarendon County white children attended schools with a teacher for every grade, class sizes no higher than 30 students, brick schools with heat, indoor toilets that flushed, water fountains, textbo...
On Nov. 11, 1949, an “equal everything” petition, as DeLaine dubbed it, arrived from the NAACP. Petitioners walked from St. Mark AME Church to the home of Harry and Eliza Briggs, where 107 parents and their children signed. Harry and Eliza Briggs signed first for “educational advantages and facilities equal in all respects to that which is provided...
In an effort to limit devastation in the second round, the NAACP wanted just 20 adult petitioners and only one adult per household. Of the 20 parents and 46 children challenging the segregation laws, which “denied equal educational advantages in violation of the Constitution,” 17 adults boldly signed again. The NAACP filed Briggs v. Elliotton Dec. ...
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Jun 5, 2023 · The decision reflects what appears to be new docket numbers for that 1953-54 court term, with Brown as No. 1, Briggs as No. 2, and new docket numbers for the other cases.. Warren announced a ...
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Brown Case - Briggs v. Elliott. Briggs v. R.W. Elliott. Summary: The legal action in Summerton, South Carolina began in 1947. Ironically the push to take action derived from a fortuitous encounter between Rev. James Hinton, president of the South Carolina NAACP and Rev. J.A. DeLaine a local school teacher. The NAACP leader, through a speech ...
Chief Justice Fred Vinson. Case No. 8, Oliver Brown and others v. the Board of Education of Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas. Narrator. The justices who heard the arguments in 1952 decided to ask to hear arguments again the following year. However, Vinson died of a sudden heart attack in September 1953. President Eisenhower, using his authority ...
While the case in Topeka, Kansas, was already primarily resolved when it appeared before the Supreme Court, the case of Briggs v. Elliott in Clarendon County, South Carolina, was the opposite. The stakes were high, and one of the best-known lawyers in the country, John W. Davis, volunteered to argue, for free, South Carolina's right to ...
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Three years before the Supreme Court heard "Brown v. Board," the legal strategy to attack separate but equal was formed in Summerton, South Carolina, with "Briggs v. Elliott." "Briggs" was the first school funding lawsuit in South Carolina.
