briggs vs elliott issue

State law required complete segregation; Article 11, Section 7 of the 1895 Constitution of South Carolina read as follows: "Separate schools shall be provided for children of the white and colored races, and no child of either race shall ever be permitted to attend a school provided for children of the other race." 529 (E.D.S.C.

James Hinton, president of the South Carolina NAACP and Rev. Briggs v. Elliott (1954). Briggs v. Elliott, 98 F. Supp. Section 5377 of the Code of Laws of South Carolina of 1942 read: "It s Elliott, the president of the school board for Clarendon County, South Carolina. This image is the map of states requiring segregation.

History books record that the case which ultimately ended school segregation was Brown v.Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. J.A. Due to years of segregation and inequality in public schools, the decision not to compromise on integration lead to Judge Waties Waring's controversial dissent in the Briggs v. Elliot trial. 1951) case opinion from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of South Carolina (1811-1965) The Briggs case was named for Harry Briggs, one of twenty parents who brought suit against R.W. Initially, parents had only asked the county to provide school buses for the black students as they did for whites.

When their petitions were ignored, they filed a suit challenging segregation itself. However, one could justifiably argue that the decision really began in South Carolina in the case known as Briggs v. Elliott. DeLaine a local school teacher. Summary: The legal action in Summerton, South Carolina began in 1947. Briggs v. R.W. When Brown reached the U.S. Supreme Court, South Carolina was one of 17 states that required school segregation. Ironically the push to take action derived from a fortuitous encounter between Rev.

Elliott. The Briggs v. Elliott case helped lead to desegregation.