[28] Ibid., July 28, 1948, p. 5.
[29] Ibid., Aug. 23, 1938, p. 5.
[30] Cassandra M. Birnie, “Race and Politics in Georgia and South Carolina,” Phylon, XIII (Sept., 1952), 241.
[31] David D. Wallace, South Carolina: A Short History, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1951), p. 679.
[32] New York Times, July 8, 1950, p. 14.
[33] Ibid., Feb. 29, 1948, p. 9; July 17, 1948, p. 3; Oct. 3, 1948, p. 40; Feb. 24, 1949, p. 15.
[34] Ibid., Feb. 7, 1952, p. 21.
[35] Other considerations, of course, entered into the revolt. Economic factors were important, for example, in the opposition of Southern financial and industrial interests to Truman’s proposal for repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act, which contained provisions for state right-to-work laws. Other economic interests, e.g. oil interests, also supported the movement. Nevertheless the revolt was sold to the rank and file white South Carolinians on the grounds of race and they undoubtedly thought, this was the main consideration.
[36] New York Times, July 20, 1948, p. 1; Oct. 3, 1948, p. 40.
[37] Ibid., Aug. 1, 1948, p. 44; Aug. 12, 1948, p. 44.