Matthew Perry - Judge, Part 1 | Profile - Episode 101

Matthew Perry was born in Columbia, South Carolina, on August 3, 1921. Perry grew up in Columbia, and attended South Carolina State University, where he studied business administration. His education at S.C.S.U. was cut short, due to being called into the U.S. Army to fight World War II. It was during his time in the Army when Perry realized that African Americans were being denied their full rights as American citizens. After the war, he resumed his education at S.C.S.U., and decided to pursue a career in law. Perry felt that he could serve as a force for good with a law career, and discusses how he was inspired by Thurgood Marshall.

Upon graduating, Perry moved to Spartanburg to establish his law firm, and to begin the arduous process of achieving equal rights in S.C. Perry became actively involved with the S.C. NAACP.

Standards

• 5.4.CC Analyze the continuities and changes of race relations in the United States and South Carolina following the Supreme Court decisions of Briggs v. Elliott and Brown v. Board of Education.
• 8.5.CX Analyze the correlation between the Modern Civil Rights Movement in South Carolina and the U.S.
• This indicator was designed to foster inquiry into the role of South Carolina in the Modern Civil Rights Movement, to include the influence of court cases such as Briggs v. Elliot and Flemming v. South Carolina Electric and Gas. This indicator was also developed to promote inquiry into the relationship between national leadership, protests, and events and South Carolina leadership, protests and events, such as the Friendship Nine and the Orangeburg Massacre.
• USHC.5.CC Evaluate continuities and changes during the Civil Rights Movement and other subsequent movements for equal rights.
• This indicator was developed to promote inquiry into thematic continuities and changes into how marginalized groups sought and won legal rights. Inquiry into the leadership, methods, and outcomes of modern equal rights movements are supported by this indicator.

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