<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:coverage>United States, North Carolina, Mecklenburg County, Charlotte, 35.22709, -80.84313</dc:coverage><dc:creator>Greater Bethel A.M.E. Church (Charlotte, N.C.)</dc:creator><dc:date>1974-08-06</dc:date><dc:description>Program from the August 6, 1974 funeral services for Joseph A. DeLaine, Sr., held at Greater Bethel African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church in Charlotte, North Carolina. The program includes an obituary and a reprint of a New York Times article by Judith Cummings on the twentith anniversary celebration of the United States Supreme Court decision in the 1954 case Brown v. Board of Education. The program also outlines DeLaine's role in the Clarendon County, South Carolina school segregation case, also known as Briggs v. Elliott.</dc:description><dc:description>The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata.</dc:description><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:relation>Forms part of online collection: Rev. Joseph A. DeLaine papers, ca. 1918-2000.</dc:relation><dc:rights>http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/</dc:rights><dc:source>Legal size - 13439 - (Folder 25), Joseph Armstrong DeLaine papers, ca. 1918-2000,  South Caroliniana Library, University of South Carolina, Columbus, South Carolina.</dc:source><dc:subject>Greater Bethel A.M.E. Church (Charlotte, N.C.)</dc:subject><dc:subject>Funeral rites and ceremonies--North Carolina--Charlotte</dc:subject><dc:subject>Obituaries--North Carolina--Charlotte</dc:subject><dc:subject>African American men--North Carolina--Charlotte</dc:subject><dc:subject>African American clergy--North Carolina--Charlotte</dc:subject><dc:subject>Clergy--North Carolina--Charlotte</dc:subject><dc:subject>African Methodist Episcopal Church--Clergy</dc:subject><dc:subject>African Methodist Episcopal Church</dc:subject><dc:subject>Death--North Carolina--Charlotte</dc:subject><dc:subject>African American civil rights workers--North Carolina--Charlotte</dc:subject><dc:subject>Civil rights workers--North Carolina--Charlotte</dc:subject><dc:subject>African American churches--North Carolina--Charlotte</dc:subject><dc:subject>Civil rights movements--South Carolina--Clarendon County</dc:subject><dc:subject>Trials--South Carolina--Clarendon County</dc:subject><dc:subject>Briggs, Harry, d. 1986--Trials, litigation, etc.</dc:subject><dc:title>Program, 1974 Aug. 6, (Charlotte, N.C.), Funeral Service for the Reverend Joseph A. DeLaine, Sr., Greater Bethel A.M.E. Church</dc:title><dc:type>Text</dc:type></oai_dc:dc>