TY - BOOK ID - 77918712 TI - Dawn of desegregation PY - 2011 SN - 1282166387 9786613809452 1611171741 9781611171747 1611171407 9781570039805 1570039801 9781611171402 PB - Columbia University of South Carolina Press DB - UniCat KW - African American civil rights workers KW - African American clergy KW - Civil rights movements KW - African Americans KW - Segregation in education KW - Afro-American civil rights workers KW - Civil rights workers, African American KW - Civil rights workers KW - Afro-American clergy KW - Clergy, African American KW - Negro clergy KW - Clergy KW - Civil liberation movements KW - Liberation movements (Civil rights) KW - Protest movements (Civil rights) KW - Human rights movements KW - Afro-Americans KW - Black Americans KW - Colored people (United States) KW - Negroes KW - Africans KW - Ethnology KW - Blacks KW - Education KW - School segregation KW - Discrimination in education KW - Race relations in school management KW - School integration KW - History KW - Civil rights KW - Law and legislation KW - Segregation KW - DeLaine, Joseph A. KW - Elliott, R. W. KW - Briggs, Harry, KW - Black people KW - De Laine, Joseph Armstrong, KW - DeLaine, Joseph Armstrong, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77918712 AB - "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. ER -