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Joseph DeLaine

Joseph Armstrong "J. A." De Laine was an African Methodist Episcopal Church minister and civil rights leader from Clarendon County, South Carolina. He received a B.A. from Allen University in 1931, working as a laborer and running a dry-cleaning business to pay for his education. De Laine worked with Modjeska Simkins and the South Carolina NAACP on the case Briggs v. Elliott, which challenged segregation in Summerton, South Carolina. The case was consolidated into the U.S. Supreme Court decision usually cited as Brown v. Board of Education.

In popular culture
Playwright Loften Mitchell wrote a 1963 play based on De Laine's story titled Land Beyond the River. Actor Ossie Davis also wrote a short play, The People of Clarendon County, which starred himself, his wife, Ruby Dee, and Sidney Poitier. It was featured, as was the case predating Brown v. Board of Education in which De Laine played an important role, in Alice Bernstein's illustrated book with the same title. ==References==
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