"You just did not have in 1946 any black people participating in the primary"
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Romine, Ron
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(2.3 MB; 2 min., 13 sec.); Professor Ron Romine of the University of South Carolina-Spartanburg, conducted a series of oral history interviews with Dorn. On February 3, 1981, they discussed Dorn's 1946 congressional campaign. Dorn explains the makeup of the voting population in 1946. At the time, there were no African-Americans and very few women who participated in the election. Dorn states that both state law and tradition kept African-Americans from voting.
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Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005
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