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Briggs, Eliza, -1998

Authoritative Name:

Briggs, Eliza, -1998

Biography:

Sued to end public school segregation in Clarendon County, South Carolina in Briggs v. Elliott. The case was one of the five that became part of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.

Associated Subjects:

Briggs, Eliza, -1998
Briggs, Eliza, -1998--Trials, litigation, etc.

Archival Collections And Reference Resources:

7 items in 4 collections (expand all)

Photographs of the 1974 annual institute of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) at the Hotel Americana in New York City.

Creator:: Peppler, Jim
Date of Original:: 1974-05
Collection:: Alabama Photographs and Pictures Collection
Contributing Institution:: Alabama. Department of Archives and History

Clarendon County desegregation suit (Briggs v. Elliott)--outtakes

Creator:: WIS-TV
Date of Original:: 1979
Collection:: Civil rights films from USC's moving image research collections
Contributing Institution:: University of South Carolina. Moving Image Research Collections
University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

Clarendon County desegregation suit (Briggs v. Elliott)--outtakes

Creator:: WIS-TV
Date of Original:: 1979
Collection:: Local Television Newsfilm Collections
Contributing Institution:: South Caroliniana Library

Letter, 1971 Nov. 22, (Charlotte, N.C.), Joseph A. DeLaine, Sr., to Richard Kluger, (Ridgefield, C.T.)

Creator:: De Laine, Joseph A. (Joseph Armstrong), 1898-1974
Date of Original:: 1971-11-22
Collection:: Rev. Joseph A. DeLaine Papers ca. 1918-2000
Contributing Institution:: South Caroliniana Library

Photograph, 1949 - 1950, (Summerton, S.C.), of Eliza Briggs, School Days

Date of Original:: 1949/1950
Collection:: Rev. Joseph A. DeLaine Papers ca. 1918-2000
Contributing Institution:: South Caroliniana Library

Program, 1998, (Summerton, S.C.), Home Going Services of the Late Mrs. Eliza G. Briggs, 1917-1998, St. Mark A.M.E. Church

Creator:: St. Mark A.M.E. Church (Summerton, S.C.)
Date of Original:: 1998
Collection:: Rev. Joseph A. DeLaine Papers ca. 1918-2000
Contributing Institution:: South Caroliniana Library

Program, 1998, (Summerton, S.C.), Home Going Services of the Late Mrs. Eliza G. Briggs, 1917-1998, St. Mark A.M.E. Church

Creator:: St. Mark A.M.E. Church
Date of Original:: 1998
Collection:: Rev. Joseph A. DeLaine Papers ca. 1918-2000
Contributing Institution:: South Caroliniana Library

Educator Resources:

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A country preacher : Rev. De Laine

Date of Original:: 2004
Collection:: Teachers' Domain Civil Rights Special Collection
Contributing Institution:: WGBH Educational Foundation