What year did Judge J Waites Waring strike down legislative attempts to keep blacks from voting in state primaries?

Answer 1

The voting rights case, Right of Negroes to Vote in Democratic Primaries, was upheld by Waring's Decision. There was a headling of the Charleston Evening Post published June 12th in 1947. The case began without any thought of integration. Rather, the intent was to make the state of South Carolina provide equal educational opportunity for black children. But when the plaintiffs, led by NAACP Legal Defense Fund lawyer Thurgood Marshall, went before the district courts in Charleston, Judge J. Waites Waring responded by saying, "You are wasting my time - you've got the laws on the book which give you separate but equal, but as long as you have separate, you never will have equality. So go back and amend your case and come back and challenge segregation itself." On Judge Waring's advice, Thurgood Marshall changed tactics. Briggs v. Elliott was heard by a panel of three federal judges in Charleston, South Carolina, who ruled against them; however, Judge Waring's s' dissent formed the legal foundation for the Supreme Court in the Brown decision.