Dawn of Desegregation: J. A. De Laine and Briggs v. Elliott

An inspirational biography of an unsung civil rights champion from South Carolina

At the forefront of a new era in American history, Briggs v. Elliott was one of the five school-segregation lawsuits argued consecutively before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1952. The genesis of Briggs was in 1947, when the black community of Clarendon County, South Carolina, took action against the abysmally poor educational services provided for their children. In a move that would define him as an early champio...