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It Started With a Bus: The Story of Harry Briggs and the Case That Started It All
Sep 20, 2026 Jeff Baxter 0 Comment Briggs v Elliott, Brown v Board of Education plaintiffs, civil rights history, civil rights plaintiffs stories, Clarendon County school segregation, Harry Briggs South Carolina, NAACP legal history, school desegregation cases, separate but equal history, Through His Lens documentary Other ProjectsBefore there was Brown v. Board of Education there was a school bus. Or rather there wasn't one, and that absence set in motion a chain of events that would change the course of American history. In Clarendon County, South Carolina in the late 1940s the disparity between Black and white education was not subtle. It was written into the state constitution. Article 11 of South Carolina's 1896 Constitution stated plainly that separate schools shall be pro...
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