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Schemes for systematic evasion of the law, such as dropping public school systems, will be difficult to attempt, and perhaps even more difficult to legally maintain, Freund added. In 1951, South Carolina Governor James F. Byrnes pronounced that if the law were changed to make segregation impossible, "reluctantly, we will...
Next year South Carolina will swear in a new governor to replace old (74) James Francis Byrnes, who may not succeed himself under the state's one-term law. Last week, with the filing deadline past, the voters found the Democratic Primary (June 8) narrowed to two candidates.
Lester Lee Bates, 48, is a loud-talking, nondrinking, nonsmoking insurance-company president from Columbia. Bates, who ran a poor second to Byrnes in 1950, never stopped campaigning Accompanied by a male quartet (later built up to a mixed octet), he has hustled around the state speaking at family reunions...
Last month the Mississippi senate killed a proposed amendment to its constitution, arguing that the change would increase the Negro vote. In contrast, Gov. James F. Byrnes of South Carolina and Gov. Christian A. Herter '15 of Massachusetts have recommended that their legislatures start constitutional amending procedures to permit lowering...
After weighing the merits of white sheets and dark skins, South Carolina's unreconstructed Governor James Byrnes decided that neither the Ku Klux Klan nor the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People fits his idea of polite society. Said he: "I am happy to say that the...