Minutes, 1946 May 6-1952 Apr. 7, Sumter County [S.C.] Democratic Party County Convention.

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Minutes, 1946 May 6-1952 Apr. 7, Sumter County [S.C.] Democratic Party County Convention.

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Minutes of four county conventions of the Sumter County, S.C., Democratic Party: 6 May 1946, 3 May 1948, 3 Apr. 1950, and 7 Apr. 1952. Topics discussed at the 1946 meeting included passage of resolutions to urge the General Assembly to pass a "local option law by the next Legislature" to reduce "the traffic in alcoholic beverages (including beer and wine)"; endorsement of reelection of U.S. Representative John J. Riley; and rejection of a resolution submitted by James McBride Dabbs which proposed that "the rules of the Democratic Party should be so changed as to permit Negroes to vote in the Democratic primaries on the same grounds as whites," in acknowledgement of the recent Supreme Court ruling.

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Democratic Party (S.C.) Sumter County.

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Dabbs, James McBride, 1896-1970

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James McBride Dabbs (1896-1970) was a professor of English at the University of South Carolina and Coker College, Presbyterian churchman, writer, civil rights leader, Penn School Community Services trustee, Southern Regional Council president, and farmer of Mayesville, S.C. He also worked with the South Carolina Council on Human Relations, the Fellowship of Southern Churchmen, the Committee of Southern Churchmen, the Council on Church and Society, and the Delta Ministry. From the des...

Riley, John Jacob, 1895-1962.

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