Briggs v. Elliott | |
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Decided January 28, 1952 | |
Full case name | Harry Briggs Jr. et al. v. R.W. Elliott, chairman, et al. |
Citations | 342 U.S. 350 (more) 72 S. Ct. 327; 96 L. Ed. 2d 392; 1952 U.S. LEXIS 2486 |
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Holding | |
In order that the Supreme Court may have the benefit of the views of the district court upon the additional facts brought out in the appellees report on the implementation of district court's mandate to equalize segregated South Carolina schools, and that the district court may have the opportunity to take whatever action it may deem appropriate in light of that report, the judgment is vacated and the case is remanded for further proceedings. | |
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Dissent | Black, joined by Douglas |
Laws applied | |
28 U.S.C. (Supp. IV) § 1253, S.C. Const., Art. XI, § 7; S.C. Code § 5377 (1942) |
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.[1] It was the first of the five cases combined into Brown v. Board of Education (1954),[2] the famous case in which the U.S. Supreme Court declared racial segregation in public schools to be unconstitutional by violating the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause. Following the Brown decision, the district court issued a decree that struck down the school segregation law in South Carolina as unconstitutional and required the state's schools to integrate. Harry and Eliza Briggs, Reverend Joseph A. DeLaine, and Levi Pearson were awarded Congressional Gold Medals posthumously in 2003.[3]
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