Presenting the Brothers of Chi-Chi; 12 Outstanding Leaders, Brothers, and True Omega men: 8 Educators, 

1 Mortician, 1 Pharmacist, and 2 Dentists.

These 8 brothers in education did so during a time of desegregation persevering through underfunded schools, outdated books, inadequate equipment, and facilities. In Spite of the adversities of segregation, the brothers prevailed with excellence and scholarship.  Brother Harold R. Boulware, Sixth District Representative and Columbia attorney, a lawyer, and civil rights pioneer who played a key role in the Supreme Court’s 1954 landmark decision banning school.  Boulware was the lawyer for the SC branch of the NAACP in the early 1950s.  In that role, he represented a group of black parents in Clarendon County who filed a discrimination lawsuit against the Clarendon County Board of Education.  The suit sought admission of black children to schools previously restricted to whites.  The case reached the Supreme Court, along with several other desegregation cases, and the High Court combined them under Brown v Board of Education, which is how its desegregation ruling became known when it ordered nationwide desegregation “with all deliberate speed.”  “It was kind of slow, but integration came, “ Mr. Boulware said in 1979 when he was honored by the American Bar Association as one who helped bring about the Brown decision. “It’s a good feeling knowing that you were one who participated.”