Attention Democrats of South Carolina [ca. 1939] ; [broadside] shall Walter White, a former Negro Republican, be allowed to disrupt white unity and Democratic solidarity in South Carolina local, and state affairs???.

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Attention Democrats of South Carolina [ca. 1939] ; [broadside] shall Walter White, a former Negro Republican, be allowed to disrupt white unity and Democratic solidarity in South Carolina local, and state affairs???.

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Reaction to attempts to unite the white and African-American wings of the Democratic party in S.C. in preparation for the 1940 elections, discussing Sen. James F. Byrnes and NAACP activist Walter White. Smith concludes his essay with challenge, "will red-blooded South Carolinians listen to lobbyists and professional politicians, and fail to amend Rule thirty-two so we can go into our Democratic primaries a united and determined people to maintain white unity and supremacy in South Carolina local and state affairs??? Say 'No' by going to your county convention Monday and demanding that it vote to amend Rule thirty-two and send a delegation to Columbia so instructed!!!"

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University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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Byrnes, James F. (James Francis), 1882-1972

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James F. Byrnes was born on May 2, 1882, in Charleston, South Carolina, to Elizabeth McSweeney and James Byrnes. On May 2, 1906, he married Maude Busch, who was born in Aiken, SC, on October 22, 1883. Byrnes was elected Court Solicitor of the Second District in 1908; U.S. Congressman from 1911-1925; U.S. Senator from 1931-1941. He was appointed to serve as a Justice of U.S. Supreme Court 1941-1942. He also served as Director of the Office of Economic Stabilization, 1942; Director of the Office o...

Smith, Edward B., b. 1897.

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Attorney of Greenville, S.C.; former mayor of Union, S.C. From the description of Attention Democrats of South Carolina [ca. 1939] ; [broadside] shall Walter White, a former Negro Republican, be allowed to disrupt white unity and Democratic solidarity in South Carolina local, and state affairs???. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 47851521 ...

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White, Walter Francis, 1893-1955

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Executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. From the description of Correspondence with Johan Thorsten Sellin, 1935. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 243854199 Walter Francis White (1893-1955), was an African American civil rights activist and leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) from 1931-1955. Walter White married Leah Gladys Powell (1893-1979) in 1922, and they ...