MARCH 26, 2012, by the Rev. Joseph A. Darby Jr. — South Carolina is a better place because of people like the late J. Waties Waring. Judge Waring’s evolution from a segregationist to an advocate for civil rights and his judicial rulings that hastened the end of legal segregation are little recognized but noteworthy landmarks along the road to freedom and justice. His life and work also offer good direction … Continue reading
Statue planned to honor Judge Waties Waring
MARCH 19, 2012, by Andy Brack — Sixty years ago at age 71, U.S. District Judge J. Waties Waring resigned from the bench in Charleston and moved to New York, never to return to his hometown, except to be buried in Magnolia Cemetery. The reason: civil rights. But now with the passage of time, people are starting to remember Waring’s courage in opposing segregation in the face of a Charleston … Continue reading
“The dissent that changed America”
JULY 11, 2011, by Leon Friedman and Richard M. Gergel — On June 23, 1951, a little more than 60 years ago, a three-judge federal court panel sitting in Charleston, S.C., issued a majority opinion, upholding the state’s rigidly maintained practice of segregating school children on the basis of race. The decision in Briggs v. Elliott, which relied upon the U.S. Supreme Court 1896 precedent of Plessy v. Ferguson, concluded … Continue reading