Board case eventually grew out of that South Carolina case. This was the first lawsuit in the country to challenge school segregation as a violation of the U.S.
Elliott, named for one of the 20 petitioners, arguing that school segregation in South Carolina was unconstitutional. I don’t want another separate but equal case.” A month later, Marshall brought a new case, Briggs v. Even the school district’s lawyers admitted that the town’s all-white Summerton High School had substantially better facilities, equipment and educational quality.ĭuring a pretrial hearing, federal Judge Julius Waties Waring persuaded Thurgood Marshall, the attorney handling the case on behalf of the NAACP, to argue against school segregation itself, saying, “Bring me a frontal attack on segregation. The suit pointed to Scott’s Branch High School, an all-Black school in Summerton, one of the towns in Clarendon County. In 1951, the organization filed a federal lawsuit demanding that Black students should get the same educational resources and facilities as white children. Various legal and procedural hurdles followed, during which the NAACP decided the best strategy for making a case would be based not on busing but overall educational equity. Columbia Voice, University of South Carolina De Laine, a key advocate for school equality and integration. And De Laine himself was fired from his principal’s position De Laine, a local reverend and public school principal.Įven before the suit was filed, one of the parents, Harry Briggs, was fired from his job at a local service station and had to leave the state to find a new one to support his family. The county refused, so with the help of the NAACP, the nation’s oldest civil rights organization, 20 Black parents prepared to sue, led by Joseph A. In 1947, Black families in Clarendon County, South Carolina, asked the county to provide school buses for Black children, just as it did for white children.
But the story of the case actually had several starts, years before the case was decided and more than a thousand miles away. Board of Education, the 1954 Supreme Court decision that outlawed school segregation, the focus is often on Topeka, Kansas, the home of the Brown family and the school board that it sued.
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