J. A. De Laine and Briggs v. Elliot
by
Ophelia De Laine Gona
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
At the forefront of a new era in American history, Briggs v. Elliott was one of the first five school segregation lawsuits argued consecutively before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1952. The resulting collective 1954 landmark decision, known as Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, struck down legalized...