South Carolina Studies

Jim Crow Laws

Oct 28, 1880

Jim Crow laws were state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States.

Briggs vs. Elliot

Jan 22, 1952

Briggs v. Elliott, 342 U.S. 350 (1952), on appeal from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of South Carolina, challenged school segregation in Summerton, South Carolina. It was the first of the five cases combined into Brown v. Board of Education (1954), the famous case in which the U.S. Supreme Court declared racial segregation in public schools to be unconstitutional, violating the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause. Following the Brown decision, the district court iss