John Lofton papers, 1909-1990.

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John Lofton papers, 1909-1990.

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Correspondence and topical files re Lofton's work with American Civil Liberties Union and the Unitarian Church; free-lance articles and newspaper editorials written while serving on Arkansas Gazette, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and St. Louis Post-Dispatch; reviews and miscellaneous materials relating to his four published books -- Insurrection in South Carolina (1964), a history of the Denmark Vesey slave conspiracy; Justice and the Press (1966); The Press as Guardian of the First Amendment (1980); and Pittsburgh's First Unitarian Church...1820-1960 (1961). Topical files include information re integration of College of Charleston; Vietnam Moratorium; and Lofton's tour of Alabama with Gov. George Wallace in 1965; also contains family correspondence; letters of James F. Byrnes, James A. Dombrowski, J. William Fulbright, Brooks Hays, Hubert H. Humphrey, Burnet R. Maybank, L. Mendel Rivers, Hugh Scott, and Hugo S. Sims, Jr.

7.5 ft. (6 boxes)

University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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