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{{short description|American civil rights leader and Methodist minister}}
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'''Joseph Armstrong DeLaine''' (July 2, 1898 – August 3, 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 challenged segregation in [[Summerton, South Carolina]].

DeLaine decided to leave South Carolina, and never returned, after a warrant was issued for his arrest for returning gunfire when his parsonage later came under hostile gunfire. He fled first to New York City and then to Buffalo, New York, where he founded another Methodist church. As a result of efforts begun in 1955, DeLaine was pardoned in 2000 by the South Carolina State Parole Board.

DeLaine also memorably taught school in South Carolina, and in 2006 was inducted into South Carolina's Educational Hall of Honor at the University of South Carolina.

Rev. DeLaine and three other plaintiffs in the ''Briggs v. Elliott'' case were posthumously awarded Congressional gold medals in 2004 for their courage and persistence despite repeated acts of domestic violence against them.

==In popular culture==
Playwright [[Loften Mitchell]] wrote a 1963 play based on DeLaine's story titled ''Land Beyond the River''.

Actor [[Ossie Davis]] also wrote a short play, ''The People of Clarendon County'', which starred himself, his wife, [[Ruby Dee]], and [[Sidney Poitier]]. It was featured, as was the case predating ''Brown v. Board of Education'' in which DeLaine played an important role, in Alice Bernstein's illustrated book with the same title.

==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070311005803/http://www.scafricanamericanhistory.com/currenthonoree.asp?month=5&year=1995 Rev. Joseph A. DeLaine] in South Carolina African American History Online
* [http://www.sc.edu/library/digital/collections/delaine.html Rev. Joseph A. DeLaine's Papers] South Carolina's South Caroliniana Library and Digital Collections
* Alice Bernstein, ''The People of Clarendon County'' (2007 - {{ISBN|0883782871}})

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