Museum pushes for recognition of state's civil rights role

The Cecil Williams South Carolina Civil Rights Museum will work to have the historic Briggs v. Elliott case recognized as the beginning of the modern civil rights movement, museum founder and director Cecil Williams said in a conference Thursday.

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