Courage: The Vision to End Segregation. The Guts to Fight for It. - Jan. 11-Feb. 26, 2011
Courage: The Vision to End Segregation. The Guts to Fight for It.
January 11 - February 26, 2011
Exhibit
While the final chapter of the landmark 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education played out in a courtroom, the story began much earlier when a country preacher named Rev. Joseph A. DeLaine and his neighbors in Clarendon County, South Carolina filed a lawsuit demanding the end of separate, unequal schools. This would be the first of five lawsuits across the country that led to the final U.S. Supreme Court decision. Brown ruled racially segregated schools unconstitutional and initiated massive change in race relations across the country. This award-winning exhibit explores the courageous saga of the NAACP attorneys and plaintiffs in the South Carolina case of Briggs v. Elliott. Courage is a Levine Museum of the New South exhibit and was made possible by a generous grant from Bank of America.
Presented by the Brown Foundation for Educational Equity, Excellence and Research and the Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site as part of the 2010-2011 program series, Commemorating Our Nation's Struggle for Freedom: From Civil War to Civil Rights.
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