Briggs v. Elliott
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. In this collection, you’ll find letters, affidavits, brochures, and reports dating from 1952-1956.
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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
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.
Language
eng
Contributing Institution
South Caroliniana Library
University of South Carolina. Libraries
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