Date: 1954-06-28 / Series: Burnet R. Maybank Senatorial Papers - Segregation 1954 / Subject (Topic): Civil rights, Segregation in education - Lowcountry Digital Library Catalog Search Search Results

Start Over Date 1954-06-28 ✖ Series Burnet R. Maybank Senatorial Papers - Segregation 1954 ✖ Subject (Topic) Civil rights, Segregation in education ✖

1. Segregation: Correspondence between William P. Murphy, Senator Burnet R. Maybank, and James F. Byrnes (Governor of South Carolina), June 1954

Segregation: Correspondence between William P. Murphy, Senator Burnet R. Maybank, and James F. Byrnes (Governor of South Carolina), June 1954

Date:: 1954-06-28
Description:: Correspondence concerning a proposal by a Mississippi professor of law to shift the enactment of desegregation to the state governments and to shift the authority to decide whether the states are effectively enacting desegregation from the Supreme Court to the United States Legislature. Senator Maybank took interest in this proposal and sent a copy to the Governor of South Carolina.