Waring statue, Charleston, S.C.

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The late U.S. District Judge J. Waties Waring of Charleston, S.C., is being honored Friday with a statue that is a fitting remembrance for his huge role in ending segregation.

Waring became a social outcast in the late 1940s and early 1950s for civil rights rulings which culminated with a dissent in Briggs v. Elliott from rural Clarendon County, a Crescent county today.  Waring’s dissent is notable because it became the backbone for the landmark Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 that ended segregation in public schools.

Photo by Michael Kaynard.  All rights reserved.