- Collection:
- Civil rights films from USC's moving image research collections
- Title:
- Quest for Civil Rights: Mr. Billie Fleming
- Publisher:
- Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina. Moving Image Research Collections
- Date of Original:
- 1980
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights--South Carolina
Education--United States
Segregation in education--United States
Segregation--United States--History
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
Civil rights movement - Location:
- United States, South Carolina, Richland County, 34.0218, -80.90304
United States, South Carolina, Richland County, Columbia, 34.00071, -81.03481 - Medium:
- motion pictures (visual works)
- Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/H264
- Description:
- SCAR T-5: Mr. Billie Fleming Col, Sound, 29 minutes. Mr. Billie Fleming is interviewed by Dr. Grace Jordan McFadden of the University of S. C. Fleming examines the historical factors which led to "Briggs v. Elliott," the 1952 Clarendon County school desegregation case that was eventually incorporated into Brown v. Board of Education. He discusses the opposition by the white community, and some blacks to the quest for educational reform. Fleming describes the ostracism directed towards supporters of the suit including loss of employment and physical attacks. From the series "Quest for Human / Civil Rights - Oral Recollections of Black South Carolinians."
- Metadata URL:
- http://cdm17173.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p17173coll18/id/195
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Copyright University of South Carolina. All rights reserved.
- Extent:
- 29:32
- Original Collection:
- Civil Rights Films from Moving Image Research Collections
- Contributing Institution:
- University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections
University of South Carolina. Moving Image Research Collections - Rights:
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