Judge J. Waties and Elizabeth Waring papers
Collection Overview
This collection consists entirely of photocopied materials from the Moreland-Spingarn Library's collections of Judge J. Waties Waring Materials. The correspondence series contains copies of letters from Septima Clark and Ruby Cornwell to Elizabeth Waring re national and local civil rights and election issues, the local National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), changing times and Clark's citizen education work for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, among other topics. Photocopies of legal proceedings including some from the Briggs versus Elliott law case fighting unequal school facilities for African Americans and some from the case of John Wrighten (with Thurgood Marshall as attorney) versus the Trustees of the University of South Carolina for his being denied entrance to the law school due to his race, and the unequal education a new law school for African Americans would provide.
Dates
- Creation: approximately 1947-1964
Creator
- Waring, Julius Waties, 1880-1968 (Person)
Access Restrictions
No restrictions.
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Biographical Note
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 unpopular views, they were ostracized by white inhabitants of Charleston. In 1952, the Warings moved to New York City.
Extent
0.25 linear feet (1 archival box)
Language of Materials
English
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 unpopular views, they were ostracized by white inhabitants of Charleston. In 1952, the Warings moved to New York City.
This collection consists entirely of photocopied materials from the Moreland-Spingarn Library's collections of Judge J. Waties Waring Materials. The correspondence series contains copies of letters from Septima Clark and Ruby Cornwell to Elizabeth Waring regarding national and local civil rights and election issues, the local National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), changing times and Clark's citizen education work for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, among other topics. Photocopies of legal proceedings including some from the Briggs versus Elliott law case fighting unequal school facilities for African Americans and some from the case of John Wrighten (with Thurgood Marshall as attorney) versus the Trustees of the University of South Carolina for his being denied entrance to the law school due to his race, and the unequal education a new law school for African Americans would provide.
Collection Arrangement
1. Correspondence
2. Legal Papers
Processing Information
Processed by Tim Fritz and Harlan Greene, October 2006
Encoded by Melissa Bronheim, July 2010
Funding from the
Funding from the
Subject
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Charleston Branch (Charleston, S.C.) (Organization)
- Clark, Septima Poinsette, 1898-1987 (Person)
- Cornwell, Ruby Pendergrass, 1902-2003 (Person)
- University of South Carolina. School of Law (Organization)
- Waring, Elizabeth (Person)
- Wrighten, John H. -- Trials, litigation, etc. (Person)
- Marshall, Thurgood, 1908-1993 -- Trials, litigation, etc. (Person)
- Briggs, Harry, -1986 -- Trials, litigation, etc. (Person)
- Elliott, R. W. -- Trials, litigation, etc. (Person)
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference (Organization)
- Young Women's Christian Associations. Charleston, S.C (Organization)
- Title
- Inventory of the Judge J. Waties and Elizabeth Waring Papers, Circa 1947 - 1964 AMN 1033
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by Processed by: Tim Fritz and Harlan Greene; machine-readable finding aid created by: Melissa Bronheim
- Description rules
- Dacs
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Description is in English
- Sponsor
- Funding from the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation and the Council on Library and Information Resources supported the collection processing and encoding of this finding aid.
Repository Details
Part of the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture Repository
125 Bull Street
Charleston South Carolina 29424 United States
843-953-7608
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