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1. www.pbs.org › wgbh › americanexperienceBriggs v. Elliott brought us Brown v. Board of Education ...

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   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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2. americanhistory.si.edu › brown › historyBriggs v. Elliott - Separate Is Not Equal

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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 ...

3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Julius_Waties_WaringJulius Waties Waring - Wikipedia

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   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.

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   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 ...

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   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

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   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 ...

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   What was the Brown case - Briggs v Elliott?

   • 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.

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   Why did Waring dismiss Briggs v Elliott?

   • On November 17, Waring dismissed Briggs v. Elliott without prejudice so Marshall could file again and challenge segregation. In December, a white woman warned DeLaine that men meeting at her home had planned his murder: an assailant would wound or kill him in front of witnesses who would vouch that DeLaine was the instigator.

   Briggs v. Elliott brought us Brown v. Board of Education. Here’s how

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   Who was the defendant in Briggs v Elliott?

   • On May 28, 1951, Thurgood Marshall, Robert Carter, and Spottswood Robinson brought the case before a three-judge panel at the federal courthouse in Charleston, South Carolina. Roderick W. Elliott, a local sawmill owner and the school board chairman, was the defendant.

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   Who was Thurgood Marshall in Briggs v Elliott?

   • 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.

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   What is the Elliott case?

   • The Elliott case was a challenge to racial segregation in public schools. In 1947, Waring presided over a voting rights case that challenged the South Carolina Democratic Party's prohibition on black participation. He ruled that the Democratic Party was not a private club and therefore not exempt from the 14th Amendment.

   How The Son Of A Confederate Soldier Became A Civil Rights Hero

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   What happened in the Briggs case?

   • The Briggs case became part of the Brown litigation. The Briggs case evoked an extreme reaction. All of the petitioners suffered swift and severe hardships for their courage. Harry Briggs was fired from his job. Annie Gibson lost her job as a motel maid and her husband lost land that had been in his family for eight decades. Rev.

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8. home.nps.gov › brvb › learnBriggs v. Elliott - Brown v. Board of Education National ...

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   On May 16, 1950, the lawsuit had been filed. Named Briggs v. Elliott, for Harry Briggs, the first signatory, and R. W. Elliott, the president of the Clarendon County School Board. During the proceedings, it was decided by the petitioners and even the national NAACP board that rather than simply seeking a bus or even equal facilities, they would ...