- Collection:
- Rev. Joseph A. DeLaine Papers ca. 1918-2000
- Title:
- Petition, 1949 Nov. 11, (Clarendon County, S.C.) Harry Briggs, et al., to the Board of Trustees for School District No. 22 (Clarendon County, S.C.)
- Creator:
- Briggs, Harry, d. 1986
- Date of Original:
- 1949-11-11
- Subject:
- NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
African Americans--South Carolina--Clarendon County
African American parents--South Carolina--Clarendon County
School boards--South Carolina--Clarendon County
African American schools--South Carolina--Clarendon County
Segregation in education--South Carolina--Clarendon County
Discrimination in education--South Carolina--Clarendon County
Race discrimination--South Carolina--Clarendon County
Clarendon County (S.C.)--Race relations--History--20th century
Race relations
African American lawyers--South Carolina--Clarendon County
Lawyers--South Carolina--Columbia
African Americans--Civil rights--South Carolina--Columbia
Lawyers--United States
African American lawyers
Civil rights--South Carolina--Clarendon County
Civil rights movements--South Carolina--Clarendon County
Civil rights workers--South Carolina--Clarendon County
African American civil rights workers--South Carolina--Clarendon County
Briggs, Harry, d. 1986--Trials, litigation, etc. - People:
- De Laine, Joseph A. (Joseph Armstrong), 1898-1974
Briggs, Harry, -1986
Boulware, Harold R., 1913-1983
Marshall, Thurgood, 1908-1993 - Location:
- United States, South Carolina, Clarendon County, 33.66581, -80.2164
- Medium:
- legal documents
- Type:
- Text
- Description:
- Petition from Harry Briggs, et al. to the Board of Trustees for School District Number 22 in Clarendon County, South Carolina, regarding inadequate and unhealthy school facilities for African American students in the district. Petitioners include members of the Briggs, Henry, and Brown families and lawyers Henry Boulware of Columbia, South Carolina, and Thurgood Marshall of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. The full copy included in the collection was provided by the South Carolina Department of Archives and History.
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. - Metadata URL:
- https://digital.tcl.sc.edu/digital/collection/jad/id/373
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digital.tcl.sc.edu/iiif/2/jad:373/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- image/jpg
Manuscripts - Original Collection:
- Legal size - 9625 - (Folder 5), Joseph Armstrong DeLaine papers, ca. 1918-2000, South Caroliniana Library, University of South Carolina, Columbus, South Carolina.
- Contributing Institution:
- South Caroliniana Library
- Rights:
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