Clark, Septima Poinsette, 1898-1987
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1898 May 3 - 1987 December 15
Gender
- female
Occupations
Places
- Charleston (S.C.) (Place of Birth)
- Johns Island (S.C.) (Place of Death)
- United States (Associated Country)
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Judge J. Waties and Elizabeth Waring papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1033
Abstract
Julius Waties Waring (1880-1968), a Charleston native and attorney became a Federal Judge in 1942. At the time of his divorce and remarriage in 1945 to Elizabeth A. Hoffman (1895-1966), he began to hand down more liberal decisions, such as equalizing the pay of black and white teachers and outlawing South Carolina's white-only Democratic Primary. He soon ruled that separate but equal was per se inequality. Because he and his wife socialized with African Americans and held...
Dates:
approximately 1947-1964