The Price of Being First: Effort to Rename Brown v. Board Reveals Family's Pain

By the time Cecil Williams turned 14, he was already photographing the civil rights movement in South Carolina. As a teenager in the 1950s he followed and documented Briggs v. Elliott, the South Carolina case that challenged segregation in public education. Briggs was eventually appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court where it became one of […]

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