Join us for the official release party for In Darkest South Carolina, a biography of civil rights activist Judge Waring by Brian Hicks, hosted in conjunction with the City of Charleston as they kick off their 350th Anniversary. Brian Hicks will serve as a keynote speaker and will discuss his inspiration behind the book. Copies will be available for sale with Brian available for autographs.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Four years before the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education, a federal judge in Charleston hatched his secret plan to end segregation in America. Julius Waties Waring was perhaps the most unlikely civil rights hero in history. An eighth-generation Charlestonian, the son of a Confederate veteran and scion of a family of slave owners, Waring was appointed to the federal bench in the early days of World War II. Faced with a growing demand for equal rights from black South Carolinians, and a determined and savvy NAACP attorney named Thurgood Marshall, Waring did what he thought was right: He followed the law, and the United States Constitution.

This is the story of Judge J. Waties Waring, his incredible life and the country he changed. And it all began in darkest South Carolina.