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SCAR T-12: Mrs. Mattie DeLaine Col, Sound, 29 minutes. Mrs. Mattie Belton DeLaine is interviewed by Dr. Grace Jordan McFadden of the University of South Carolina. DeLaine, widow of Reverend Joseph A. DeLaine, recalls the impact of Briggs v. Elliott (the 1952 Clarendon County school desegregation case that was eventually incorporated into Brown v. Board of Education) on her family. She recollects the events in Lake City, S. C., that resulted in the violent attacks on her home, the burning of the church, and the DeLaine's escape from South Carolina pursued by a mob. From the series "Quest for Human / Civil Rights - Oral Recollections of Black South Carolinians."

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