Out-Of-the-Box in Dixie Cecil Williams's Photography of the South Carolina Events That Changed America

Name: Out-Of-the-Box in Dixie Cecil Williams's Photography of the South Carolina Events That Changed America
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ISBN: 9780944514764

ISBN-10: 0944514766

ISBN-13: 9780944514764

Edition: 3rd 2010

Authors: Cecil Williams

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The 1949 Briggs vs. Elliot case that originated in Clarendon County and the Orangeburg selective buying campaign were both crucial events in the creation of the civil rights movement that changed the course of United States history.Out-of-the-Box in Dixie is the story of these heroic people whose quest for equality, sacrifices and contributions should not be forgotten. It was the Briggs vs. Elliot case that caused the national office of the NAACP to redirect its approach from suing for "separate but equal" facilities to challenging segregation as a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. On May 17, 1954, the United States Supreme Court handed down the decision that…

Book details

List price: $75.00
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Publication date: 6/30/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 11.50" wide x 11.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 3.894
Language: English

For more than fifty years, the Reverend Cecil Williams has been recognized as a national leader on the forefront of change in the struggle for civil and human rights. Janice Mirikitani is the founding president of the Glide Foundation and was San Francisco's second poet laureate. Cecil and Janice have been married for thirty-one years.