South Carolina: Why would anyone choose to live there?
After leaving South Carolina, , Judge Wating proclaimed: “The cancer of segregation will never be cured by the sedative of gradualism.” speaking at a Harlem church
GOP Has No Time to Honor Statue of The Man Who Ordered Their Predesccors to Desegregate
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Forty six years after his death, this courageous judge is being snubbed by the political leaders of his own state. A statue was dedicated outside the same federal courthouse building where he heard his case. Some Democrats showed up, led by Eric Holder. But no local Republican of any note came. Tim Scott, the Oreo (aka black in name only) junior senator said he had “some personal things that needed attending.”
Other decisions by this South Carolina Federal Judge included an opinion holding that the state had to pay black teachers the same as it paid whites, ordering that the University of South Carolina law school admit black students, finding that the state open a truly equal law school for African-Americans, ending the state Democratic Party’s “white primary.”Waring’s famous words about schools were in dissent. By 2-1, the three-judge federal panel upheld South Carolina’s segregation. But the case3 was later combined into Brown when the US Supreme Court rules that segregation was unlawful. Later, no longerbale to feel at home in Charleston, Waring moved to New York.In an era where schools are resegregating across the US at a record clip, led by the South, how could the state’s politicians .. find the time to celebrate this man?
A statue was dedicated outside the same federal courthouse building where he heard his case. Some Democrats showed up, led by Eric Holder. But no local Republican of any note came. Tim Scott, the Oreo (aka black in name only) junior senator said he had “some personal things that needed attending.”