- Title:
- Briggs v. Elliott
- Creator:
- Gressette, L. Marion
Figg, Robert McC.
McCord, L. B.
Griffin, John A.
The News and Courier
American Friends Service Committee
association of citizens' councils of Mississippi
Association of Citizens' Councils of Mississippi
Boulware, Harold R.
Briggs, Harry
Committee Investigating the Establishment of Private Schools
Connor, Cassie - Contributor to Resource:
- The Committee of Fifteen
Brady, Tom P.
Gressette, J. H.
Brabham, V. Wells
Whetsell, W. O.
Rogers, Emory - Publisher:
- Columbia, S.C. : South Carolina Department of Archives and History
Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections
Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina. South Caroliniana Library - Date of Original:
- 1947/1984
- Subject:
- Civil rights movements--South Carolina--History--20th century
Civil rights--South Carolina
Segregation in education--South Carolina--Clarendon County
Clarendon County School District (S.C.)--Trials, litigation, etc.
University of South Carolina. School of Law--Faculty
African Americans--Civil rights
Journalists--South Carolina
Segregation in education--South Carolina
South Carolina--Race relations
South Carolina--Politics and government--20th century
Charleston (S.C.)--Commerce
United States--Politics and government--1933-1953
American Friends Service Committee - People:
- Figg, Robert McC.
Workman, William D. (William Douglas), 1914-1990
Thurmond, Strom, 1902-2003 - Location:
- United States, South Carolina, Clarendon County, 33.66581, -80.2164
United States, South Carolina, Richland County, 34.0218, -80.90304
United States, South Carolina, Richland County, Columbia, 34.00071, -81.03481 - Medium:
- correspondence
articles
reports
affidavits
correspondence
inserts (additions)
pamphlets
documents (object genre)
newspapers
telegrams - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Comprised of special collections and archives from UofSC’s South Caroliniana Library and South Carolina Political Political Collections, South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Richland County Public Library, and the S.C. State Library, this digital collection provides a contextual glance into primary sources surrounding the legal case Briggs v. Elliott. This court case “challenged school segregation in Summerton, South Carolina.[1] It was the first of the five cases combined into Brown v. Board of Education (1954),[2] the famous case in which the U.S. Supreme Court declared racial segregation in public schools to be unconstitutional by violating the Fourteenth Amendment‘s Equal Protection Clause. Following the Brown decision, the district court issued a decree that struck down the school segregation law in South Carolina as unconstitutional and required the state’s schools to integrate.” [Wikipedia].
In this collection, you’ll find letters, affidavits, brochures, and reports dating from 1952-1956. - Metadata URL:
- https://digital.library.sc.edu/collections/briggs-v-elliott
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Copyright Not Evaluated. For further information please contact University of South Carolina. South Caroliniana Library, Columbia, SC 29208.
- Contributing Institution:
- South Caroliniana Library
University of South Carolina. Libraries - Rights:
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