SC EOCEP USHC Practice Questions - South Carolina EOCEP U.S. History And The Constitution Exam

How did the South Carolina case Briggs v. Elliott (Clarendon County) contribute to the national civil rights movement?

It was the first of five landmark school equalization lawsuits combined into the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education case. It resulted in the immediate military occupation of Columbia by federal troops. It outlawed poll taxes in South Carolina state primary elections. It established the legal precedent for desegregating public transit buses in Montgomery, Alabama.

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It was the first of five landmark school equalization lawsuits combined into the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education case.

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