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...high voice belonged to Governor J. Strom Thurmond; the gruffer one came from Olin D. Johnston. Both men wanted Johnston's U.S. Senate seat...
...been Governor Thurmond," said the deep voice, "I would never have appointed the Nigger physician of Charleston, Dr. T. C. McFall, to displace your beloved white physician [on the Medical Advisory Board]." At that point, sounds of dissent rose from 400 Negroes in the bleachers. Johnston bellowed: "Make those Niggers keep quiet...
...South Carolina the voter has had to make his choice in full public view. Each party had its own ballot, and the voter picked up the one he wanted from the Republican or Democratic stack on an open table. Last week Governor J. Strom Thurmond signed a bill giving South Carolina voters for the first time a privilege that citizens of the other 47 states have long enjoyed-a single, secret ballot...
When she had finished, a Negro woman walked to the platform to hand Mrs. Waring a small bouquet of roses wrapped in tissue paper, was fondly hugged in return. The next day's brickbats were wrapped in white rage. "Beneath comment," snorted Dixiecrat Governor J. Strom Thurmond. On the floor of the state legislature, Representative Joe Wise, a 23-year-old Air Forces veteran, added: "We need no words such as hers from a damyankee...
...often called the "most northern of southern colleges." Many of the negroes in Princeton town are descendants of slaves that 19th-century students brought to college with them. But the Southern influence isn't as strong as it used to be--even though more Princetonians straw-voted for Thurmond in the last election than for Truman...