St. Onge, Peter,

Civil Rights Movement's Roots Grounded in Clarendon County, S.C.. Peter St. Onge. - Charlotte Observer, 2004. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2005. Article 28, Human Relations, 1522-3248; .

Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2005. Originally Published: Civil Rights Movement's Roots Grounded in Clarendon County, S.C., Feb. 11, 2004; pp. n.p..

"Fifty years ago [1954], in Brown v. Board of Education, the U.S. Supreme Court declared segregated schools 'inherently unequal.' That case was a consolidation of five school desegregation cases from across the country. The first of those was Briggs v. Elliott--20 South Carolinians backed by a hundred more, led by a minister who went searching for a school bus." (CHARLOTTE OBSERVER) This article profiles the first case involving the fight against segregation in a rural South Carolina county that began America's civil rights movement.

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United States Supreme Court --Decisions--Civil rights


Brown v. Board of Education
Civil rights
Civil rights movements
School integration


South Carolina

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