![Walter Edgar's Journal show](https://d3dthqtvwic6y7.cloudfront.net/podcast-covers/000/091/158/small/walter-edgar-s-journal.png)
Summary: 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