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The present pattern of race relations for South Carolina was shaped in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. In 1877 at the end of the Reconstruction period the mould of s...

When the social needs demand one settlement rather than another, there are times when we must bend symmetry, ignore history and sacrifice custom in the pursuit of other and larg...

So strongly drawn is the line between the two races ... and so strengthened by the form of habit and education, that ... no power on earth can overcome the difficulty.--_John C....

In response to the Supreme Court’s desegregation decision a number of organizations dedicated to the preservation of white supremacy mushroomed up in the state. Among these were...

The ministers to our forefathers had the Bible, but not Socialism; and for them segregation was compatible with Christianity. Our modern ministers have the Bible and Socialism;...

Throughout the segregation-integration controversy white leaders have rarely attempted to discover what the Negro thinks on the matter. Instead they have arbitrarily declared th...

In cases of deliberate, dangerous and palpable infractions of the Constitution, affecting the sovereignty of a state and the liberties of the people, it is not only the right bu...

In all parts of the Republic, thoughtful people are talking about realignment of political parties. On many issues, including appeal to bloc-voting Negroes in the big cities, th...

A featured part of the white South Carolina defense of the racial _status quo_ is the allegation that the entire integration drive constitutes a gigantic conspiracy of jealous Y...

As for the local liberal--there are not too many among us. Either they are idealistic, good hearted people who have been led astray; or they are exhibitionists with the warped i...

The racially pure ... Teuton on the American Continent has arisen to be its master; he will remain master so long as he too does not succumb to blood defilement.--Adolf Hitler,...

[8] In 1905 the Charleston _News and Courier_ was sued by a white man whom the _News and Courier_ had referred to in a news story as a Negro. In awarding damages to the plaintif...

[67] Supreme Court of the United States, “Brief of Appellees on Reargument,” Case of Harry Briggs, Jr., _et al._, Appellants, against R. W. Elliott, _el al._, Appellees, October...

[113] _Morning News_, Sept. 23, 1956, p. 4-A; also James F. Byrnes, “The Supreme Court Must be Curbed,” _U.S. News and World Report_, XL (May 18, 1956), 58; _News and Courier_,...

[127] According to a _News and Courier_ reporter, Eldridge Thompson, Klan membership rocketed during 1956 and 1957. In addition to Bickley’s organization the other principal Kla...

[229] In this summary the following _News and Courier_ editorials were considered: June 3, 1954, p. 4-A; Aug. 8, 1954, p. 4-A; Aug. 26, 1954, p. 4-A; Feb. 8, 1955, p. 8-A; June...

[236] _Independent_, Feb. 27, 1956, p. 13-A. For comparison, 71 percent of the people outside the South (35 states) approved the decision, 24 percent disapproved it and five per...

[332] _Ibid._, Jan. 7, 1956, p. 5. According to the annual report of the state Superintendent of Education for 1953-54 South Carolina received $8,216,840 from the federal govern...

[429] _News and Courier_, Mar. 11, 1956, p. 14-A; May 23, 1956, p. 12-A; June 25, 1956, p. 6-A; Aug. 2, 1956, p. 14-A; Aug. 9, 1956, p. 14-A; Aug. 24, 1956, p. 12-A.

[477] _Ibid._, Sept. 24, 1957, p. 10-A. Much to the disgust of many members of the faculty, the University of South Carolina awarded David Lawrence an honorary degree in June, 1...

[537] This summary of the Travelstead affair was taken largely from Chester C. Travelstead, “Turmoil in the Deep South,” _School and Society_, LXXXIII (Apr. 28, 1956), 143-147;...

The following is the text of the decision, read by Chief Justice Earl Warren, in the case of _Briggs v. Elliott_ (in conjunction with cases from Kansas, Virginia and Delaware) o...