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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 ...
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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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In the ensuing legal challenge, Briggs was listed as the plaintiff and Elliott was listed as the defendant. The lawsuit was held in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of South Carolina in Charleston, South Carolina in the November of 1950.
Brown Case - Briggs v. Elliott. 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 attended by DeLaine, issued a ...
Briggs v. Elliott , 342 U.S. 350 (1952), on appeal from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of South Carolina , challenged school segregation in Summerton, South Carolina . [1] It was the first of the five cases combined into Brown v.
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 […]
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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 ...
