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Black History Month: Clarendon County, SC, the Briggs v. Elliott Case, and the Road to Brown v. Board of Education

This guide was created for Black History Month, 2017.

Based on the ground-breaking Brown vs. the Board of Education case in 1954, SEPARATE BUT EQUAL follows a young Thurgood Marshall (Sidney Poitier), the lawyer who argued the racially-charged lawsuit before the Supreme Court. When the black students of Clarendon County, South Carolina are denied their request for a single school bus, a bitter and courageous battle for justice and equality begins.  CHECK OUT FROM BERKELEY, MAIN, OR PALMER WITH YOUR TTC ID.

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