Joseph DeLaine

Reverend Joseph Armstrong DeLaine (1898-1974) was a Methodist 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. DeLaine worked with Modjeska Simkins and the South Carolina NAACP on the case "Briggs v. Elliott," which became one of the four cases argued under Brown v. Board of Education.

External links

* [http://www.scafricanamericanhistory.com/currenthonoree.asp?month=5&year=1995 Reverend Joseph A. DeLaine] in South Carolina African American History Online
* [http://www.sc.edu/library/digital/collections/delaine.html Reverend Joseph A. DeLaine's Papers] View entire collection of papers online, courtesy of the University of South Carolina's South Caroliniana Library and Digital Collections