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Charleston Judge First to Call Segregation Unequal Remembered
Charleston remembers US District Judge Waites Waring, son of a Confederate soldier, who wrote the first federal ruling that separate schools were unequal. His 1951 Clarendon County desegregation dissent helped precede Brown v. Board. A statue at the federal courthouse and an historical marker honor his role in school desegregation.
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Charleston
Waites Waring
South Caroline
South
New York
Waring
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Clarendon County
U.S. Supreme Court
Brown Vs. Board of Education
South Carolina
Kansas
Delaware
District of Columbia
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Board
Richard Gergel
Gergel
Plessey Vs. Ferguson
U.S