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| Creator: | Briggs, Harry, d. 1986 |
| Title: | Petition, 1949 Nov. 11, Harry Briggs, et al., to the Board of Trustees for School District No. 22, Clarendon County Board of Education (S.C.) |
| Date: | 1949 Nov. 11 |
| Description: | Petition from Harry Briggs, et al. to the Board of Trustees for School District Number 22 in Clarendon County, South Carolina, regarding inadequate and unhealthy school facilities for African American students in the district. Petitioners include members of the Briggs, Henry, and Brown families and lawyers Henry Boulware of Columbia, South Carolina, and Thurgood Marshall of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. This copy is a fragment of the original petition, only including the first of five pages and missing the final two words, respectfully present. The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. |
| Types: | Legal documents |
| Subjects: | DeLaine, Joseph A. (Joseph Armstrong), 1898-1974 | Briggs, Harry, d. 1986 | Briggs, Harry, d. 1986--Trials, litigation, etc. | Boulware, Harold R., 1913-1983 | Marshall, Thurgood, 1908-1993 | NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund | African Americans--South Carolina--Clarendon County | African American parents--South Carolina--Clarendon County | School boards--South Carolina--Clarendon County | African American schools--South Carolina--Clarendon County | Segregation in education--South Carolina--Clarendon County | Discrimination in education--South Carolina--Clarendon County | Race discrimination--South Carolina--Clarendon County | Clarendon County (S.C.)--Race relations--History--20th century | Race relations | African American lawyers--South Carolina--Clarendon County | Lawyers--South Carolina--Columbia | African Americans--Civil rights--South Carolina--Columbia | Lawyers--United States | African American lawyers | Civil rights--South Carolina--Clarendon County | Civil rights movements--South Carolina--Clarendon County | Civil rights workers--South Carolina--Clarendon County | African American civil rights workers--South Carolina--Clarendon County | Clarendon County (S.C.) |
| Collection: | Rev. Joseph A. DeLaine Papers ca. 1918-2000 |
| Institution: | University of South Carolina University Libraries Digital Collections |
| Contributors: | South Caroliniana Library | University of South Carolina. Library. Digital Collections |
| Online Publisher: | Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina, University Libraries, Digital Collections | 2008 |
| Original Material: | Legal size - 1001 - (Folder 5), Joseph Armstrong DeLaine papers, ca. 1918-2000, South Caroliniana Library, University of South Carolina, Columbus, South Carolina. |
| Rights and Usage: | Digital image copyright 2008, The University of South Carolina. All rights reserved. For more information contact The South Caroliniana Library, USC, Columbia, SC 29208. |
| Related Materials: | Forms part of online collection: Rev. Joseph A. DeLaine papers, ca. 1918-2000. |
| Persistent Link to Item: | http://digital.tcl.sc.edu/u?/jad,634 |
