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New Politics in the Old South : Ernest F. Hollings in the Civil Rights Era by South Carolina. General Assembly. House of Representatives;South Carolina. General Assembly. House of Representatives.;United States. Congress. Senate;United States. Congress. Senate.;Ballantyne, David T.;Hollings, Ernest F.;Hollings, Ernest F is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
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<P>The first scholarly account of the South Carolina Democrat's career and the transformation of Southern U.S. politics and society during the civil rights era</P><P>New Politics in the Old South is the first scholarly biography of Ernest F. "Fritz" Hollings, a key figure in South Carolina and national political developments in the second half of the twentieth century. Throughout his career Hollings was renowned for his willingness to voice unpleasant truths, as when he called for the peaceful acceptance of racial desegregation at Clemson University in 1963 and acknowledged the existence of widespread poverty and malnutrition in South Carolina in 1969. David T. Ballantyne uses Hollings's career as a lens for examining the upheaval in southern politics and society after World War II.</P><P>Hollings's political career began in 1948, when he was elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives. He served as governor from 1959 to 1963 and then as a U.S. senator from 1966 until he retired in 2005. Ballantyne illuminates Hollings's role in forging a "southern strategy" that helped move southern Democrats away from openly endorsing white supremacy and toward acknowledging the intere
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- Author
- South Carolina. General Assembly. House of Representatives;South Carolina. General Assembly. House of Representatives.;United States. Congress. Senate;United States. Congress. Senate.;Ballantyne, David T.;Hollings, Ernest F.;Hollings, Ernest F
- Publisher
- University of South Carolina Press
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781611177039
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Memoir, Political Science, Fiction
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