Word: carpetbag
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sitting at Columbia, permitted it to happen. The Negro was Green Coleman, 88-year-old inmate of the Charlotte, N. C. almshouse. Accompanied by Mayor Wearn of Charlotte and a white delegation, he asked to be heard because he was, he claimed, a South Carolina State Senator in the carpetbag days from 1872 to 1876. The South Carolinians were not entirely willing to admit his claims; State records for that period were too hazy. The legislators voted to hear him "but not as an ex-Senator of South Carolina...