Those Who Came Before.......

Prior to Linda Brown’s father attempting to enroll her in a white school, there

were others who took that same path as well.  Some of those cases were

rolled together into the Supreme Court Case Brown V. The Board of Education.

One of those cases was as early as 1949.  Briggs v. Elliott The NAAP went to the residents of Clarendon County, South Carolina with the

Premise that they would launch a case against segregation in public schools if

at least 20 of them would come forward to participate. 

Harry Briggs and 19 others were found willing, and a class action lawsuit

was filed against the school board.

This case was eventually rolled into the Brown v. Board of Education by the Supreme Court