A copy of the statements and views of Senator Burnet R. Maybank including his support for an uninstructed delegation from South Carolina to the 1944 Democratic National Convention and the need for a resolution protesting the interference of the Federal Government against the South Carolina State Election Laws.
A copy of the instructions given to Senator Maybank to read as Chairman on behalf of the South Carolina Delegation at the meeting of the Progressive Democratic Party of South Carolina with a sub-committee of the Democratic National Committee on July 17, 1944.
A release from the Chairman of the Democratic National Committee concerning resolutions adopted at the 1940 Democratic National Convention and their effect upon the upcoming 1944 Democratic National Convention.
Two essays espousing the merits of the Southern Democratic Party. A third party breaking away from the regular Democratic Party that opposed President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the New Deal, and black membership in the Democratic Party.
An edited listing of members of the South Carolina Democratic Convention. Likely used to keep track of thank you letters sent out to the attending members.
A three-page essay written by the Georgia State Commissioner of Agriculture expressing concern that the Democratic Party had changed and no longer represented the South. Instead the Commissioner expresses the need to form a new Southern Party to replace it. The Commissioner especially condemns the New Deal plan implemented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
A letter from a South Carolinian to Congress concerning the change in the draft age to eighteen and nineteen. The writer is a poor married woman who has worked hard to send her son to college. She states that it isn't fair to not let the young boys finish school. She then discusses married men without children and "negros" fighting in the war. She ends with offering her services instead of drafting her son.