...so it served kept them from spreading the blacks so thin that they would never elect black representatives.Those black legislators, in subsequent redistricting sessions, wanted to maximize the blacks in their districts to ensure re-election...
...use of the money for a memorial to the "Lost Cause," in part because few realize it exists; one long-serving black legislator who thought the tax had been done away with said he wants to eliminate state funding for the park.These days...
...economic development program through South Carolina State University, the state's historically black public college. Black legislators said they were baffled and concerned by the difference in the votes.Ott and other legislators of both parties successfully...
...support of the amended legislation, several Atlanta-area blacks voted against the bill, but most of the other black legislators supported it. Such easy passage might have been surprising to some after the House's tense debate two weeks earlier...
...legislators. "It drips with racism," said state Rep. Al Williams, a Midway Democrat who joined about two dozen black legislators outside the chamber. The furor began Thursday when the Republican-controlled House voted 70-68 to reject the...
...me and I wish him well," he said of the Rev. Lowery in a statement. And he touted the support of about a dozen black legislators and religious leaders who backed him at a campaign rally Tuesday in downtown Decatur. Mr. Jones and Mr. Martin...
...qualifications." Mr. Schweitzer and Highway Patrol Col. Russell Roark gave their resignations about two weeks ago after black legislators showed Gov. Mark Sanford a tape of a 2004 traffic stop that captures an angry white trooper using a racial epithet...
...school, a motel, a park and behind a restaurant. Black legislators want 1968 case reopened CHARLESTON - Three civil...patrolmen in Orangeburg almost 40 years ago, and now black legislators want a new investigation. "We've never received...
COLUMBIA - A planned speech by presidential contender Barack Obama to South Carolina's black legislators has survived a bid by key supporters of Hillary Clinton to have the New York senator take his place. Mr. Obama had accepted the...
...elderly Spartanburg County couple during a robbery in 1995. Black lawmakers see no gain in judiciary COLUMBIA - Black legislators lost a bid to elect a black woman to an open administrative law judge seat Wednesday. Though the Legislature elected...
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