Briggs v. R.W Elliott - South Carolina: In 1951, in Clarendon County, South Carolina, twenty courageous African-American parents filed a lawsuit against school officials, for their own children received unequal education services compared to the all-white schools. In South Carolina, young African-American children had to walk far distances to attend schools. Some students even had to walk an eight-mile distance to school. They were not allowed to travel on school-provided transportation such as normal school buses! School officials had argued that African-Americans were not paying much in taxes as a whole and deemed it as unfair. Therefore, African-American children were denied transportation. Rev. J. A. Delaine, an important civil rights
