Legislative series, 1944-1965.

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Legislative series, 1944-1965.

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Correspondence and other material relating to pending legislation considered by Congress, includes copies of pertinentbills, resolutions, committee prints, and official and constiuentcorrespondence; files regarding postal service and government employees. Also includes files for former Senator and Anderson publisher Wilton Hall, and campaign manager and aide, William C. Johnston; extensive files relating to agriculture and textiles in South Carolina, including efforts, led by Johnston, Senator Richard Russell, and the Democratic Party, to erect a dam at Trotters Shoals (Abbeville, S.C.). Files also include speech material issued by the Democratic National Committee for use in campaigning; files related to the investigation of communist influence in the United States government and the United Nations. Correspondence, 1962, from constituents and others from across the country reflecting division over ThurgoodMarshall's appointment to the Second United States Circuit Courtof Appeals; documents relating to integration of Little Rock, Ark. schools, and passage of civil rights bills in Congress; and file, 1957, on Johnston's call for investigation of the NAACP and its possible links to communism.

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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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