South Carolina General Assembly
110th Session, 1993-1994

Bill 5222


Indicates Matter Stricken
Indicates New Matter


                    Current Status

Introducing Body:               House
Bill Number:                    5222
Primary Sponsor:                Harvin
Type of Legislation:            CR
Subject:                        Segregation in schools
Date Bill Passed both Bodies:   19940531
Computer Document Number:       DKA/3437JM.94
Introduced Date:                19940519
Last History Body:              House
Last History Date:              19940531
Last History Type:              Received from Senate
Scope of Legislation:           Statewide
All Sponsors:                   Harvin
Type of Legislation:            Concurrent
                                Resolution



History


Bill  Body    Date          Action Description              CMN  Leg Involved
____  ______  ____________  ______________________________  ___  ____________

5222  House   19940531      Received from Senate
5222  Senate  19940526      Adopted, returned to House
                            with concurrence
5222  Senate  19940526      Recalled from Committee         04
5222  Senate  19940524      Introduced, referred to         04
                            Committee
5222  House   19940519      Introduced, adopted, sent to
                            Senate

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A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION

COMMEMORATING THE FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF BROWN VS. BOARD OF EDUCATION, THE LANDMARK UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT DECISION WHICH EFFECTIVELY ENDED RACIAL SEGREGATION IN THE NATION'S PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

Whereas, in May, 1954, a unanimous United States Supreme Court, speaking through then Chief Justice Earl Warren of California, rendered its landmark decision on school segregation in the consolidated case of Brown vs. Board of Education; and

Whereas, courageous South Carolinians from Clarendon County were involved in this decision, having filed a similar lawsuit in that county seeking an end to the Supreme Court's 1896 pronouncement that "separate but equal" facilities for the races in public education were legally permissible; and

Whereas, the Clarendon County lawsuit was consolidated with the case arising in Topeka, Kansas (Brown vs. Board of Education) and other similar cases from other parts of the country with the result that the concept of "separate but equal" was struck down and doors were opened, both literally and figuratively, for a large, and long-dispossessed, segment of America's population; and

Whereas, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People led the fight then, and remains in the forefront today, for racial justice and equality under the law; and

Whereas, NAACP officials will be in Clarendon County during May, 1994, to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the decision that cleared the way for desegregation in this country's public schools; and

Whereas, everyone in South Carolina should pause to consider the significance and effect of this landmark court case and consider how to end forever racial injustice regardless of what form it may take. Now, therefore,

Be it resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring:

That the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina, by this resolution, commemorates the fortieth anniversary of Brown vs. Board of Education, the landmark United States Supreme Court decision which effectively ended segregation in the nation's public schools.

Be it further resolved that copies of this resolution be forwarded to the following: Dr. William F. Gibson, Chairman, NAACP National Board of Directors; Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, NAACP Executive Director and CEO; Mr. James Washington, President of the Clarendon branch of the NAACP; Judge Reuben Clark, President of the Manning branch of the NAACP; and Mrs. Marjorie Fleming, widow of longtime Manning NAACP branch president and nationally known civil rights leader, Mr. Billie S. Fleming.

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