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John Bolt Culbertson Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCU-SCPC-JBC
Abstract
John Bolt Culbertson, lawyer and activist, was a "liberal lion" of South Carolina's Upstate for most of the twentieth century, establishing a law practice in which he represented unions, the working class, disabled veterans, African-Americans, and others in need of a voice—many of whom could not afford to pay him. His outspokenness and his political leanings, atypical for South Carolina at that time, resulted in financial setbacks, insults, and even crosses burned on his lawn, but Culbertson...
Dates:
circa 1886 - 2012
Found in:
South Carolina Political Collections
John Marion Lofton papers
Collection
Identifier: SCL-MS-11490
Scope and Content Note
The papers of John Marion Lofton, Jr. (1919-1990), span the years 1909 through 1990 although the bulk of the collection falls between 1940 and 1980. Included in the papers are correspondence, writings, press releases, bulletins, news clippings, and newsletters. Units of material in the collection reveal Lofton's involvement in the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Unitarian Church, political events during the tumultuous years of racial integration and Vietnam War protests, and such...
Dates:
1909 - 1990
Found in:
South Caroliniana Library
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- American Civil Liberties Union 1
- Byrnes, James F. (James Francis), 1882-1972 1
- College of Charleston 1
- Culbertson, John Bolt, 1908-1983 1
- Dombrowski, James A. (James Anderson), 1897-1983 1
- Fulbright, J. William (James William), 1905-1995 1
- Jackson, Jesse, 1941- 1
- Johnston, Olin D. (Olin Dewitt), 1896-1965 1
- Lofton, John, 1919- 1
- McCray, John Henry, 1910-1987 1
- Rivers, L. Mendel (Lucius Mendel), 1905-1970 1
- Scott, Hugh (Hugh Doggett), 1900-1994 1
- Simkins, Modjeska Monteith, 1899-1992 1
- Sims, Hugo S. 1
- Wallace, George C. (George Corley), 1919-1998 1
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