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Author Gona, Ophelia De Laine.

Title Dawn of desegregation : J.A. De Laine and Briggs v. Elliott / Ophelia De Laine Gona
Published Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 212 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Briars of discrimination -- Spokesman for the disenfranchised -- The challenge -- Ups and downs -- Transition -- June 8 -- Across the Rubicon -- An offer that was refused -- Warnings -- Showdown on Main -- A not-so-merry Christmas -- Liar, liar -- Moving on -- Federal District Court -- Verdicts -- New evil -- Armageddon
Summary "Though De Laine and the brave parents who filed Briggs v. Elliott initially lost their lawsuit in district court, the case grew in significance when the plaintiffs appealed the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court. Three years after the appeal, the Briggs case was one of the five lawsuits that shared the historic Brown decision. However, the ruling did not prevent De Laine and his family from suffering vicious reprisals from vindictive white citizens. In 1955, after he was shot at and his church was burned to the ground, De Laine prudently fled South Carolina in order to save his life. He died in exile in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1974. Fifty years after the Supreme Court's decision, De Laine was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in recognition of his role in reshaping the American civil rights landscape."--Jacket
Notes Paperback edition published by the University of South Carolina Press, 2012
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Briggs, Harry, -1986 -- Trials, litigation, etc
Elliott, R. W. -- Trials, litigation, etc
De Laine, Joseph A. (Joseph Armstrong), 1898-1974.
SUBJECT DeLaine, Joseph A. (Joseph Armstrong), 1898-1974
Elliott, R. W. -- Trials, litigation, etc
Briggs, Harry, -1986 -- Trials, litigation, etc
Briggs, Harry, -1986 fast
De Laine, Joseph A. (Joseph Armstrong), 1898-1974 fast
Elliott, R. W. fast
Subject Segregation in education -- Law and legislation -- South Carolina -- Clarendon County -- History -- 20th century
African Americans -- Civil rights -- South Carolina -- Clarendon County -- History -- 20th century
Civil rights movements -- South Carolina -- Clarendon County -- History -- 20th century
African American clergy -- South Carolina -- Clarendon County -- Biography
African American civil rights workers -- South Carolina -- Clarendon County -- Biography
LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
African American civil rights workers
African American clergy
African Americans -- Civil rights
Civil rights movements
Segregation in education -- Law and legislation
South Carolina -- Clarendon County
Genre/Form Trial and arbitral proceedings
Biographies
History
Trials, litigation, etc.
Trial and arbitral proceedings.
Biographies.
Comptes rendus de procès et d'arbitrage.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1611171741
9781611171747