COLOUR BAR IN SOUTHERN U.S.A.

Grey River Argus, 13 September 1948, Page 3

COLOUR BAR IN SOUTHERN U.S.A.

NEW YORK, Sept. 10. The latest move in the Southern States’ revolt against the Democratic Party’s civil rights programme and policy was the Louisiana State Democratic Central Committee’s decision to-Gay to place the name of the State’s candidates —Governor Stronl Thurmond, of South Carolina, for President, and Governor Fielding Wright, of Mississippi, for VicePresident—on the State’s presidential ballot paner instead of those of President Truman and Senator A. W. Barkley as the Democratic candidates. This means, under law, that persons wishing to vote for Mr Truman and Senator Barkley must write their names on the ballot papers. • . The committee unanimously passed a resolution accusing Mr Truman of trying to destroy the rights of State government and “force upon the people foreign ideologies such as the Russian ‘all races law,’ which contains a fundamental threat to our American way of life.”