Courage: The Vision to End Segregation, and Guts to Fight for It-is a traveling exhibition, organized in 2004 by the Levine Museum of the New South to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, and later recreated as a traveling exhibit. Using immersive environments and interactive elements it documents the efforts of a small African-American community in South Carolina to end separate and unequal schools for their children, and involves the visitor in their struggle for equality.
Led by Rev. J. A. De Laine, principal of Liberty Hill school in Clarendon County, South Carolina, the African-American citizens of Clarendon County filed what would become the first lawsuit in the composite Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case that legally ended racially segregated public schools in the United States. Courage: The Vision to End Segregation, and Guts to Fight for It shows how the actions of ordinary Clarendon County citizens led to the legal destruction of the separate but equal doctrine that explores the impact of their efforts on the struggle for equality in all sectors of America society.
The exhibit has just come down from the Schomburg Center, and is currently on view at the Museum of Tolerance in LA. Attached is some further information about the Courage eexhibition.
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