AP Photo-U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel poses in his office in the federal courthouse in Charleston, S.C., on Thursday, April 3, 2014 beside a painting by noted artist Jonathan Green. […]
AP Photo-U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel poses in his office in the federal courthouse in Charleston, S.C., on Thursday, April 3, 2014 beside a painting by noted artist Jonathan Green. The painting depicts the outside of the courthouse in 1951 when three federal judges heard a school desegregation case from Clarendon County, S.C. A statue of U.S. District Judge Waites Waring, one of the judges in the case and who was the first to write an opinion that separate schools are not equal schools since separate but equal became the law of the land, is being dedicated outside the courthouse on April 11, 2014. Photo/Bruce Smith