Judge J. Waties and Elizabeth Waring papers, ca. 1950-1964.

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Judge J. Waties and Elizabeth Waring papers, ca. 1950-1964.

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This collection consists entirely of photocopied materials from the Moreland-Spingarn Library's collections of Judge J. Waties Waring Materials. The correspondence series contains copies of letters from Septima Clark and Ruby Cornwell to Elizabeth Waring re national and local civil rights and election issues, the local NAACP, changing times and Clark's citizen education work for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, among other topics. Photocopies of legal proceedings including some from the Briggs versus Elliott law case fighting unequal school facilities for African Americans and some from the case of John Wrighten (with Thurgood Marshall as attorney) versus the Trustees of the University of South Carolina for his being denied entrance to the law school due to his race, and the unequal education a new law school for African Americans would provide.

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College of Charleston, Marlene and Nathan Addlestone Library

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College of Charleston, Marlene and Nathan Addlestone Library

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Clark, Septima Poinsette, 1898-1987

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Septima Poinsette Clark was born in Charleston, S.C. on 3 May 1898, the daughter of Peter Poinsette, who grew up a slave on the plantation of Joel Roberts Poinsett (with conflicting data saying he came on the ship the Wanderer), and Victoria Anderson who grew up mostly in Haiti. The family lived on Henrietta Street; Clark attended small private schools and Avery Institute, getting a teacher's certificate in 1916. Laws did not allow blacks to teach in black city schools, so Clark ta...

University of South Carolina. School of Law

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Elliott, R. Walter

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Marshall, Thurgood, 1908-1993

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Thurgood Marshall (b. July 2, 1908, Baltimore, Maryland – d. January 24, 1993, Washington, D.C.) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving from October 1967 until October 1991. Marshall was the Court's 96th justice and its first African-American justice. Before becoming a judge, Marshall was a lawyer who was best known for his high success rate in arguing before the Supreme Court and for the victory in Brown v. Board of Education, a 1954 decision that ruled t...

Waring, Julius Waties, 1880-1968

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Judge. From the description of Reminiscences of Julius Waties Waring : oral history, 1957. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309728157 Federal judge, lawyer, and civil rights advocate; of Charleston, S.C. From the description of Letter, 1921 May 24, Charleston, S.C., to Julian Mitchell, Charleston, S.C. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 54862038 From the description of Letter, 1935 Apr. 27, Charleston, S...

Briggs, Harry, -1986

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Young Women's Christian Associations. Charleston, S.C.

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Cornwell, Ruby P. (Ruby Pendergrass), 1903-

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Charleston (S.C.) educator and civic leader. Born in Clarendon County (S.C.), Ruby P. Cornwell attended Avery Normal Institute (Charleston, S.C.) and Talladega College in Alabama. Cornwell married Dr. A.T. Cornwell, a Charleston dentist. In 1956 she was elected as a delegate to the Charleston County Democratic convention. Ruby Cornwell was a friend of federal Judge J. Waties Waring (1880-1968), a champion of desegregation and black voting rights, and his wife Elizabeth (1895-1968). ...

Southern Christian Leadership Conference

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The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) is a national organization organized in chapters and affiliates that works for human rights across the world. It played a prominent role in the civil rights movement during the 1950s and 1960s. SCLC was closely associated with its first president, Martin Luther King, Jr. Origins of the SCLC can be traced back to the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 5 December 1955 after which leaders of civil rights groups met in Atlanta on 10-11 January 1957 to form ...

Waring, Elizabeth

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Wrighten, John, 1922-1996.

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