<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, South Carolina, Clarendon County, 33.66581, -80.2164</dc:coverage><dc:coverage>United States, South Carolina, Clarendon County, Summerton, 33.60822, -80.3512</dc:coverage><dc:creator>De Laine, Joseph A. (Joseph Armstrong), 1898-1974</dc:creator><dc:date>1918/2000</dc:date><dc:description>Essay by Joseph A. DeLaine, Sr., summarizing the history of minority groups in the United States and detailing the struggle of African Americans to achieve first-class citizenship through legal battles such as the Clarendon County, South Carolina, school segregation case, also known as Briggs v. Elliott, and outlining DeLaine's role in the struggle.</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 20), Joseph Armstrong DeLaine papers, ca. 1918-2000,  South Caroliniana Library, University of South Carolina, Columbus, South Carolina.</dc:source><dc:subject>African Americans</dc:subject><dc:subject>African Americans--South Carolina</dc:subject><dc:subject>African American civil rights workers</dc:subject><dc:subject>African American civil rights workers--South Carolina</dc:subject><dc:subject>Civil rights workers--United States</dc:subject><dc:subject>Civil rights workers--Southern States</dc:subject><dc:subject>African Americans--Civil rights</dc:subject><dc:subject>African Americans--Civil rights--South Carolina</dc:subject><dc:subject>Civil rights--United States</dc:subject><dc:subject>Civil rights--South Carolina</dc:subject><dc:subject>Civil rights movements--United States</dc:subject><dc:subject>Civil rights movements--South Carolina</dc:subject><dc:subject>United States--Race relations</dc:subject><dc:subject>South Carolina--Race relations</dc:subject><dc:subject>Race relations</dc:subject><dc:subject>Race discrimination--United States</dc:subject><dc:subject>Race discrimination--South Carolina</dc:subject><dc:subject>Segregation in education--United States</dc:subject><dc:subject>Segregation in education--South Carolina</dc:subject><dc:subject>Discrimination in education--United States</dc:subject><dc:subject>Discrimination in education--South Carolina</dc:subject><dc:subject>United States--Social conditions</dc:subject><dc:subject>South Carolina--Social conditions</dc:subject><dc:subject>Segregation in education--South Carolina--Clarendon County</dc:subject><dc:subject>African American clergy</dc:subject><dc:subject>Clergy--United States</dc:subject><dc:subject>Trials--South Carolina--Clarendon County</dc:subject><dc:title>Essay, n.d., Nine score years ago, Joseph A. DeLaine, Sr.</dc:title><dc:type>Text</dc:type></oai_dc:dc>