I am hopeful this body will do likewise. Mr. Speaker, as we approach the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, it is indeed an honor to stand in the Halls of the United States House of Representatives to commemorate the dedication and courage of four South Carolinians who initiated the effort to desegregate public school education in South Carolina and the Nation. Reverend Joseph Armstrong DeLaine organized the original 106 petitioners, 18 of whom and two others made up the original 20 plaintiffs in Briggs v. Elliott, the first of the five cases that were merged and became Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.
Jim Clyburn: “I am hopeful this body will do likewise. Mr. Speaker, as we approach the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education…”
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Commemorating the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education and honoring its South Carolina plaintiffs.
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