The People of Clarendon County

by Davis, Ossie

• ISBN13: 9780883782873
• ISBN10: 0883782871
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-11-01
• Publisher: Ingram Pub Services

Summary

Clarendon County, a rural community in South Carolina, was the battleground of Black sharecroppers, domestic workers, laborers and clergymen who joined with the NAACP to fight for better schools for Black children. This small but mighty group of brave visionaries filed their lawsuit, Briggs v. Elliott, in 1951. This was the first of five cases that led to the breakthrough 1954 Supreme Court case, Brown v. Board of Education.

Author Biography

Ossie Davis was an actor, director, producer, writer, and a civil rights activist who worked closely with Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. He is the author of Just Like Martin and the playwright of Purlie Victorious. Alice Bernstein is a journalist whose syndicated column, Alice Bernstein and Friends, appears in newspapers nationwide. She is the author of Aesthetic Realism and the Answer to Racism. She lives in Clarendon County, South Carolina.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. ix
Dates Relevant to The People of Clarendon County	p. xxiii
The People of Clarendon County
A Play by Ossie Davis	p. 5
Photographs and Historical Documents, and Essays on the Education That Can End Racism
Photograph Album	p. 27
Brown v. Board of Education: What Interferes with Justice?	p. 45
From Dissenting Opinion, Briggs v. Elliott	p. 50
Concerning the "Shoot Out" on October 10, 1955	p. 61
A Narrative
Notes on the Aftermath
Awarding Congressional Gold Medals	p. 65
Racism Can End	p. 76
The Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method	p. 81
Two Examples
First Grade Children Learn and Become Kinder
A Science Class Combats Prejudice
Remarks on "Speaking Freely"	p. 90
Appendix	p. 93
Biographical Notes	p. 103
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