@article{451334,
      recid = {451334},
      author = {Gona, Ophelia De Laine.},
      title = {Dawn of desegregation J.A. De Laine and Briggs v. Elliott  / [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {University of South Carolina Press,},
      address = {Columbia :},
      pages = {xiv, 212 p. :},
      year = {2011},
      note = {Paperback edition published by the University of South  Carolina Press, 2012.},
      abstract = {"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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/451334},
}