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Lost Cause, 1948
Tobias, Rowena W. | August 14, 1948 issue

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While the Dixiecrat fireworks fizzled through the headlines, the South's last-ditch abortive battle to preserve a one-party, one-color political system has been lost in Charleston's Federal District Court. South Carolina has been the test case. This is the state which has gone furthest in seeking legal stratagems to keep African Americans out of party affairs. Other Southern states have carefully observed developments in South Carolina. Georgia's last primaries were open to African Americans, Alabama's new qualifications apply equal treatment to white and African Americans, and Mississippi's policy of intimidation of African Americans, has not been altogether successful.

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AFRICAN Americans; CIVIL rights; UNITED States -- Politics & government; FEDERAL government; WHITES; ETHNIC groups; UNITED States
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