In Darkest South Carolina: J. Waties Waring and the Secret Plan That Sparked a Civil Rights Movement

In Darkest South Carolina: J. Waties Waring and the Secret Plan That Sparked a Civil Rights Movement by Hicks, Brian. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781929647385.

"Four years before the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education, a federal judge in Charleston hatched his secret plan to end segregation in America. Julius Waties Waring was perhaps the most unlikely civil rights hero in history.An eighth-generation Charlestonian, the son of a Confederate veteran and scion of a family of slave owners, Waring was appointed to the federal bench in the early days of World War II. Faced with a growing demand for equal rights from black South Carolinians, and a determined and savvy NAACP attorney named Thurgood Marshall, Waring did what he thought was right: He followed the law, and the United States Constitution. This is the story of Judge J. Waties Waring, his incredible life and the country he changed"--Description from publisher