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BRIGGS v. ELLIOTT

Civ. No. 2657.

103 F.Supp. 920 (1952)

BRIGGS et al. v. ELLIOTT et al.

United States District Court E. D. South Carolina, Charleston Division.

March 13, 1952.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold R. Boulware, Columbia, S. C., Spottswood Robinson, III, Richmond, Va., Robert L. Carter, Thurgood Marshall, New York City, Arthur Shores, Birmingham, Ala., and A. T. Walden, Atlanta, Ga., for plaintiffs.

T. C. Callison, Atty. Gen. of South Carolina, S. E. Rogers, Summerton, S. C., and Robert McC. Figg, Jr., for defendants.

Before PARKER and DOBIE Circuit Judges, and TIMMERMAN, District Judge.

PARKER, Circuit Judge.

On June 23, 1951, this court entered its decree in this cause finding that the provisions of the Constitution and statutes of South Carolina requiring segregation of the races in the public schools are not of themselves violative of the Fourteenth Amendment of the federal Constitution, but that defendants had denied to plaintiffs rights guaranteed by that amendment in failing to furnish for Negroes in School District 22 educational facilities...

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