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The Cecil Williams South Carolina Civil Rights Museum will work to have the historic Briggs v. Elliott case recognized as the beginning of the modern civil rights movement, museum founder and director Cecil Williams said in a conference Thursday.
In anticipation of the 70th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, and in recognition of the role of Briggs v. Elliott the historic South Carolina case, the Cecil Williams South Carolina Civil Rights Museum will hold the first of five statewide roundtable discussions in Summerton, Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024, at 5:30 pm. A brief press conference will precede the program and discussions.
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Today, we bring you full, in-depth coverage of one of the most important press conferences held in modern Kershaw County history, especially when it comes to Civil Rights.
No one is absolutely sure, but of all things, it may have been a clerical error some 70 years ago that kept a landmark South Carolina-based lawsuit from becoming the