Judge J. Waties and Elizabeth Waring Papers
	Avery Research Center Manuscript Number 1033
	Biographical Note:
	Julius Waties Waring (1880-1968), a Charleston native and attorney became a Federal
	Judge in 1942. At the time of his divorce and remarriage (1945) to Elizabeth A. Hoffman
	(1895-1966), he began to hand down more liberal decisions, such as equalizing
	the pay of black and white teachers and outlawing SC's white only Democratic Primary.
	He soon ruled that "separate but equal" was per se inequality. Because he and his wife
	socialized with African Americans and held unpopular views, they were ostracized
	by white inhabitants of Charleston. In 1952, the Warings moved to New York City.
	Scope and Content: Approx 1/4 ft. photocopies (ca. 1950-1964)
	The collection consists entirely of photocopied materials from the Moreland- Spingarn
	Research Center's collections of Judge J. Waties Waring Materials. The correspondence
	series contains copies of letters from Septima Clark and Ruby Cornwell to Elizabeth
	Waring re national and local civil rights and election issues, the local NAACP,
	changing times and Clark's citizen education work for the Southern Christian Leader-
	ship Conference, among other topics. Photocopies of legal proceedings including some
	from the Briggs vs. Elliott law case fighting unequal school facilities for African Americans
	and some from the case of John Wrighten, Thurgood Marshall attorney, versus
	the Trustees of the University of South Carolina for his being denied entrance to the
	law school due to his race, and the unequal education a new law school for African
	Americans would provide.
I	Correspondence
	Photocopies of letters (1950 -52) from Septima Clark and Ruby Cornwell to Judge	1-1
	and Mrs. J Waties Waring. Most letters are to Elizabeth Waring thanking her for
	personal gifts and for her and the Judge's inspiring contributions to the cause of civil
	rights. There are mentions of troubles with integrating the YWCA, the poor behavior
	of black voters in the Morrison/Wallace democratic primary in Charleston, troubles
	in the local NAACP chapter, and much material on social and family life.
2	Photocopies of letters (1952-55; 1962-64) from Septima Clark and Ruby Cornwell	1-2
	mostly to Mrs. Elizabeth Waring, telling her of their civil rights activities and views and
	thanking Mrs. Waring and the Judge for theirs; with one copy of a letter from the Judge.
	Topics include problems with Charleston YWCA, NAACP and Shaw Center; racist
	policies of local newspaper News and Courier, the looming court decision of "the
	Clarendon case," and changing behaviors in the city of Charleston while blacks demand
	more rights. Later letters of Clark describe the writing of her autobiography, detail
	her work for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, working with staff like
	Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to increase voter registration; and her thoughts on the
	personal life and habits of Thurgood Marshall.
3	Photocopies of miscellaneous correspondence (1951-53) of Septima Clark and Ruby	1-3
	Cornwell with others re various civil rights issues, with mentions of the Warings.
II	Legal Papers
1	Photocopies of complaint (22 Dec. 1950), Answer (18 Jan. 1951), and Interrogatories	1-4
	by Defendants (8 May 1951) of legal case in District Court of US, Eastern District
	of SC, Charleston Division, civil action file no. 2657, Harry Briggs, et. al. versus
	R. Elliott, etc. The class action case was bringing suit over the unequal nature of
	African American schools and facilities in the segregated era.
2	Memorandums, defendant's final brief, findings of fact, proposed findings and other	1-5
	photocopied legal documents of Civil Action 1670 in District Court of the US, Eastern
	District of SC, Columbia Division (ca. 1947-1948). The case involves African American
	John Wrighten's being denied admission to University of SC's law school due to his
	race; with copy of Thurgood Marshall's pleading that the state's plan to create a separate
	law school for African Americans does not create an equal learning opportunity.