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My friend, Ophelia DeLaine Gona, wrote a book about her father's role in ending segregation in the schools. The book is titled Dawn of Desegregation. Here are websites showing school conditions before desegregation and links for more information about J.A. DeLaine.
Photograph, 1937 or 1938, of Joseph A. DeLaine, Sr., wife, children, and children's nurse
Civil Rights Leaders Meet on SCOTUS Desegregation Ruling - Jet Magazine June 16, 1955
Lake City, South Carolina Whites Burn Church to Chase Away Minister - Jet Magazine, October 20, 1955
African American school children posed with their teacher outside a school, possibly in South Carolina - 1900 to 1910 Detroit Publishing Company photograph collection (Library of Congress)
picture of Veazy, Greene County, Georgia. The one-teacher Negro school in Veazy, south of Greensboro. It was made in 1941
Greene County, Georgia. The one-teacher Negro school in Veazy, south of Greensboro. It was created in 1941
Ophelia De Laine Gona spoke of her father, J.A. De Laine, a Clarendon County pastor and school principal
Eyewitnesses of Briggs v. Elliott school desegregation in Clarendon County, South Carolina from 1947--1960. Master's Thesis, 2008, 102 Pages Master of Arts (M.A.)
Briggs Petitioners and their families at St. Mark A.M.E. Church in Summerton (1949).
R.M. Elliott was the superintendent of the Summerton School District in 1947
Harry and Eliza Briggs were one of 21 initial families who became part of the Briggs v. Elliott case
More than 20 families from the area joined together in 1947 to request adequate transportation for their students, and they filed suit with local courts when refused
Meetings were held at Liberty Hill for the selection of petitioners in the complaint that would become Briggs v. Elliott
For more information on the Briggs v. Elliott case and its impact today, see www.bdpfoundation..., a foundation established in the names of those involved in the lawsuit.
Reverend Joseph A. DeLaine - South Carolina African American
documentary about the unsung heroes behind the historic Brown v. Board of Education ruling, which led to the desegregation of America's schools. Genre: Documentary MPAA Rating: Rated NR Starring: Julian Bond, Reverend Joe Delaine, Barbara Johns, Vernon Jordan, Thurgood Marshall Jr. Director: Peter Gilbert
this medal honors the contributions of Reverend Joseph A. DeLaine, Harry and Eliza Briggs, and Levi Pearson "to the Nation as pioneers in the effort to desegregate public schools
White Plains, Greene County, Georgia. The three-teacher Negro school." (Library of Congress)
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many black schools were constant targets of arson and black teachers were often threatened with bodily harm.
An all-black school in Tennessee in the 1940s... PHOTO: TN State Library and Archives
Blog: "African Americans: Deculturalization, Transformation, and Segregation"
African-American Teacher and Children in Segregated School Classroom
book: Their Highest Potential, An African American School Community in the Segregated South
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