Uncommon Courage: The Story of Briggs V. Elliott, South Carolina's Unsung Civil Rights Battle

Most history books cite Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas as the litigation that ended school segregation but a little known case from Clarendon County, South Carolina actually spearheaded the civil rights movement. In its 1954 decision in Briggs v. Elliott the US Supreme Court put segregations on the defensive. The law was finally on the side of those who wanted to make the guarantee of equal treatment in the Fourteenth Amendment a reality. This book explores the uncommon courage of the residents of Clarendon County who sacrificed so much to help change history. ISBN: 9780974528403