Cleredon+county+by+lamar

CLARENDON COUNTY

My community is clarendon county.

This community is a rural area that is in the middle of no where and they have to walk ten miles to school for the black kids.

The name of the court case was Briggs et al VS Elliott et al. the plaintiffs were Harold Briggs and 19 other parents in the county.

The defendants were Clarendon County.

The complaint was that the board of education wasn’t trying to let the kids be together.

The lawyer that tried the case was thurgood Marshall and the NAACP The decision was that they had to make schools equal for blacks and whites.

The member that were important were the NAACP because they went against the people decision

SOURCES:AMAERICANHISTORY.SI.EDU/BROWN/HISTORY/4-FIVE/FIVE-COMMUNITIES.HTML.