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Briggs v. Elliott. No. 273. Decided January 28, 1952. 342 U.S. 350. Syllabus. The District Court in this case decided that constitutional and statutory provisions of South Carolina requiring separate schools for the white and colored races did not, of themselves, violate the Fourteenth Amendment, but ordered the school officials to proceed at ...
- 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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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 ...
May 17, 2016 · Briggs v. Elliott was one of five cases, collectively entitled Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka, Shawnee County, KS, et al., argued before the United States Supreme Court on December 9–11, 1952, and December 7–9, 1953, by attorneys from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). The historic decision […]
Briggs v. Elliott, the first of five lawsuits in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, began in the 1940s in Summerton, SC. Adult and child petitioners faced arson, murder, job loss, evictions, and daily harassment in their fight for equal education. Their stories, vital to understanding the civil rights struggle, have been neglected ...
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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Feb 18, 2019 · Elliott case, which argued against separate and equal schools. Briggs set the stage for the Supreme Court's later Brown v. Board decision, and it earned him death threats.
