IRMO, S.C. (WIS) - On Tuesday, the African American Historical Society of Irmo unveiled a new historical marker for local civil rights hero Harold Boulware, Sr.

Boulware was a civil rights attorney and judge. He died in 1983. The new marker is located outside of his house, located on 101 Lake Murray Blvd.

After attending Howard University School of Law in Washington, D.C., the Irmo native brought his fight back home.

In 1950, he filed the notable case Briggs vs Elliott , working alongside other civil rights icons, including Thurgood Marshall. The case pioneered the end of segregation in schools across the nation was the first of five cases that became known as Brown v. the Board of Education, which ultimately dismantled segregation in schools.

“Harold Boulware was determined to fight

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