Threatening litigation promptly integrated a South Carolina courthouse workforce

Evidence

In 1975 he left Washington and went back into private practice in Sumter, South Carolina. Uncle Billy and Aunt Lucille’s daughter had recently died, and they decided to go back. There, Uncle Billy started making good trouble again. He integrated a neighborhood and befriended one of his white neighbors, who later told a story about Uncle Billy’s return to Sumter. One of the first things he did was visit the courthouse. When he didn’t see any black employees working there, other than janitors, he threatened to sue. What happened next? They hired more black workers who were not janitors. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 41

Categorization

• CANDY: A crisp, concrete example of legal threat producing immediate change — elevator-conversation material.