Dawn of desegregation [electronic resource] : J.A. De Laine and Briggs v. Elliott / Ophelia De Laine Gona.
Gona, Ophelia De Laine.
2011
KF228.B75 G66 2011eb
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Title Dawn of desegregation [electronic resource] : J.A. De Laine and Briggs v. Elliott / Ophelia De Laine Gona.
Author Gona, Ophelia De Laine.
ISBN 9781570039805
1570039801
9781611171402
9781611171747 (e-book)
Publication Details Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, c2011.
Language English
Description xiv, 212 p. : ill., maps.
Call Number KF228.B75 G66 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 344.73/07980975781
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."--Book jacket.
Note Paperback edition published by the University of South Carolina Press, 2012.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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